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UK company to digitise DHSC records

Manx Business Solutions to support undertaking

A large scale digitising operation is set to take place at Noble's Hospital over the next year.

UK document management company MSIL Ltd. has been awarded the contract by the Department of Health and Social Care - it'll convert patient records into electronic form.

Manx Business Solutions is supporting MSIL by providing the central location for the mammoth undertaking

Thousands of documents are set to be scanned during the project - estimated to take 15-months.

Richard Wild, chief information officer at the department, says reducing paper use will require a two-fold solution:

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