NHS Trust Orders Intelligence Solutions to Support Foundation Trust Application

Pathway Manager and Patient Level Costing solutions will help Trust to meet 18-week-wait targets and reinforce effective Service Line Reporting

[UKPRwire, Fri May 22 2009] Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust has ordered healthcare intelligence solutions from Ardentia to help meet required Government reporting targets and further enhance Service Line Reporting to assist in its application to become a Foundation Trust.

The Pathway Manager solution, supplied by business intelligence specialist Ardentia, will replace an existing in-house solution to monitor 18 week-wait pathways. This will enable the Trust to liberate valuable resources, allowing internal staff to focus on improving outcomes and optimising care delivery.

The Trust is also to deploy Ardentia’s Patient Level Information and Costing system (PLICS) to support its Foundation Trust status application. The solution provides effective cost analysis and reporting, offering a sound basis for Service Line Management.

Stuart Tebbutt, senior sales consultant at Ardentia said: “‘I am delighted that Sandwell and West Birmingham has chosen to come to us for its software. The Trust is highly dynamic and innovative in its approach to healthcare, as it demonstrated by opening state-of-the-art facilities at the Birmingham Treatment Centre at the City Hospital site and a new Emergency Services Centre at Sandwell in 2005, to best meet the needs of the 600,000 people it provides care services for.

“The Trust is ideally placed to take full advantage of our Pathway Manager and PLICS solutions and we’ll be continuing to work closely with them to ensure they get the quality of data to meet reporting requirements, and be successful in their bid for foundation status.”

Ardentia’s Pathway Manager manages patient pathways from initial GP contact to acute or other hospital treatment, to ensure compliance with the 18-week wait rules. Powerful functionality supports routine reporting and ad-hoc query reporting at patient, pathway and event level, enabling Trusts to meet national reporting requirements and also to drill down and investigate wider issues relating to patient pathways in greater detail.

Ardentia’s Patient Level Costing solution meets the requirement for cost analysis and reporting on service-line profitability by providing a quick way of costing individual patient records and enabling finance managers to analyse whether care is being delivered within income for each case mix type, supporting more strategic financial management and ensuring the best use of healthcare resources.