Mid Yorks deploys Ardentia BI

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with a business intelligence system from Ardentia.

The trust, which employs more than 7,000 staff, said it wanted a tailored business intelligence system that would better monitor its business performance and delivery of patient care.

James Rawlinson, assistant director of IT, said: “Here at the trust, we wanted to drive organisational agility and efficiency, using the technology as a key enabler, allowing clinicians to view and record information with minimum effort, at the point of care.”

Previously, staff relied on data published in a range of different sources, which provided a limited view of the trust’s performance.

As a result of implementing Ardentia’s HealthWare data warehouse, patient level costing system and theatres reporting module, they can drill down to detailed cost breakdowns and identify areas where efficiencies can be improved or savings can be made.

Rawlinson added: “It’s critical that clinicians, managers and other stakeholders can easily access and use the information we have in our systems to better plan how healthcare can be delivered and to make sure GPs feel assured in allocating resources across a health economy.

“As a provider, we are receiving a growing number of queries regarding this information.

"Ardentia has provided us with a complete business intelligence system that enables us to manage those queries, obtain in-depth data quickly and easily, and support robust business planning.”