Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust Orders Strategic Intelligence Systems from Ardentia

HealthWare data warehouse solution will enable Trust to manage Referral to Treatment Time monitoring, Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators from a single interface

10 December 2008 – Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has ordered a healthcare intelligence system from Ardentia to provide staff and commissioners with key information to effectively manage healthcare provision.

Based on Ardentia’s HealthWare data warehouse, the customised system provides a single repository for all data resources, and will enable the Trust to manage Referral to Treatment Time monitoring, Service Level Agreements -including Payment by Result Tariff calculation – and Key Performance Indicators.

The solution will provide performance indicators from across the different departments in the Trust, and will be accessed by managers, clinicians, finance staff and information services, to help ensure the Trust meets operational, regulatory and financial requirements and give a detailed picture of how the Trust is performing.

The Trust has taken a site licence for the product, enabling it to roll out the information it provides to an unlimited number of users. This will allow the Trust to provide relevant information to clinicians, service managers and key partner agencies including commissioners and the information service provider Sussex Health Informatics Service.

According to Gary Ferguson, sales manager at Ardentia: “The HealthWare data warehouse is the only solution that brings together information from the highly different areas of financial management and clinical reporting into a single data repository.

“A key advantage of accessing all data from a single system is that everyone is working from the same information. This provides the platform for a more co-ordinated and holistic approach to Trust management, and in turn helps to improve overall levels of healthcare delivery.”

Brighton and Sussex is a major Teaching Trust with sites at Brighton and Haywards Heath. With an annual budget of just under £350 million a year, it provides care to 421,000 outpatients, 81,000 inpatients and 128,000 Accident and Emergency cases a year.

The Healthcare Commission gave the Trust a rating of ‘Excellent’ for quality of services in the year 2007/2008, and in October the Trust announced that it was on target to hit its 18-week wait targets.

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About Ardentia

Stafford based Ardentia employs 55 staff and works exclusively on the delivery of software for healthcare. With over 100 clients in the NHS, it is the largest dedicated supplier of such systems, with customers at all levels of the health service: hospital trusts, Primary Care Trusts, Strategic Health Authorities and national service suppliers such as Connecting for Health. www.ardentia.co.uk

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