St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has selected CACI’s InView data warehouse and Business Intelligence solution to support its bid for foundation status and the implementation of a Cerner care record system as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
InView uses a Microsoft-based data-warehouse and a Business Objects reporting and analysis front-end. It will hold data from the trust’s core systems and make it available to staff via a centralised web-reporting interface.
InView will replace a spread-sheet based reporting system and the trust says it will be a “major step forward” in providing information at a local level while meeting national reporting requirements.
Head of information Wendy McCarthy said it would also support the trust’s bid for foundation status and preparations to take Cerner’s care record service.
“As we move over to the National Programme and prepare to achieve foundation trust status, the quality and availability of trust data becomes paramount,” she said.
“InView will help us to improve this by expanding our feeder systems, centralising data and giving users access to information in a format they can use more effectively. It will help us a great deal.”
Data from the trust’s patient administration system, radiology, A&E, critical care, finance and HR systems will be fed into the new system.
In turn, it will be used to provide clinical, financial and management teams with access to a wide range of reports and analyses, including payments by results, the 18 week referral to treatment time target and executive balanced scorecards.
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