Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new business intelligence tool from System C Healthcare. Called Medway Sigma BI, the software is designed specifically to help hospitals in the drive for improved services. Based on Microsoft's latest technology, it is easy to use, but allows trusts to manipulate and analyse raw data relating to all aspects of their inpatient and outpatient services. Ken Bradshaw, head of IT strategy and implementation at the Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust explained: "We chose Medway Sigma BI because it combined familiarity and ease of use of Microsoft products with sophisticated data import and transformation routines. We also needed absolute confidence that the system would go live in time for our PAS deployment and System C achieved that with flying colours.
"It was the best thing we could have done. It enabled us to adapt our old reporting solutions to run with a new PAS. Information and reporting are key to a successful PAS deployment and Sigma BI gives us access to all of our data where and when we need it."
Darryl Davies, head of product development - business intelligence solutions at System C, said: "Business Intelligence and data warehouse solutions are a key component of our service to NHS trusts and we are delighted that this deployment has gone so smoothly. Bolton took an informed and pragmatic approach to the deployment and its team was a pleasure to work with."
The Royal Bolton Hospital serves a local population of some 265,000 people and handles over 32,000 emergency admissions a year.
About Medway Sigma BI
Medway Sigma BI is part of System C's Medway Sigma product suite. This includes the Medway Sigma PAS/EPR, Emergency Care, Maternity and Choose & Book systems. The Sigma BI data warehouse can be used either integrated with other Sigma products or as a stand-alone solution, working on data from third party PAS and clinical systems. Medway Sigma BI runs in a Microsoft environment, using SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services and Analysis Services. Its attributes include:
- Preconfigured reports - Medway Sigma BI comes with a wide range of standard healthcare reports, all of which can be used as templates for localised and tailored reports and queries. The templates cover most aspects of secondary care information requirements;
- Technology - using the most modern Microsoft technology makes the system easier to use, to deploy and to support. It also means that organisations can make use of any Microsoft/SQL skills already available in-house ensuring self-sufficiency for the production of operational and management information;
- Supports different skill/requirements levels - Medway Sigma BI allows end users to click on management reports in a browser window whilst skilled information staff can use it to analyse data in detail and to produce a variety of reports including National, Monitor, SHA and Organisation/PCT/GP/GDP required reports.
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About System C Healthcare plc
System C Healthcare plc (www.systemc.com) specialises in the design and development of clinical patient management and business intelligence software, and provides systems implementation and consulting services to the health sector.
System C Healthcare is quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (SYS.L).