Ten things you need to know about current trends in systems integration

NHS trusts have large numbers of computer systems, and they all need to be able to talk to each other. That’s the challenge of systems integration, an activity that is gathering pace. E-Health Insider has consulted the experts for their advice on staying ahead in systems integration.

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ReStart Consulting

ReStart Consulting is the UK leader in data management and data integration solutions for Healthcare. The company’s holistic approach to integration dramatically transforms cost models and delivers very significant savings. This has been achieved through a module-based approach and using healthcare integration experts. The company has been responsible for many successful implementations in Healthcare Trusts and SHAs across the UK. These include St. Mary’s NHS Trust and Hammersmith in London, now part of the Imperial NHS Trust – the UK’s first Academic Health Science Centre. ReStart has a close partnership with the vendors of industry-leading integration technologies such as InterSystems Ensemble and Sun JCAPS. Other partners include Initiate Systems, Fujitsu Services and Datanomic.

E-mail: mike.symers@restartconsulting.com
Tel: + 44 (0) 1932 857750 (Mike Symers)
Web: www.restartconsulting.com

CACI Ltd

CACI is a leading provider of IT solutions and services to the NHS. Over the years CACI has developed solutions for more than 100 NHS organisations across the UK and Ireland, including the Department of Health, Arms Length Bodies and Acute, Mental Health and Primary Care Trusts.

To meet the information management needs of today’s NHS, CACI has developed InView. InView is a fully integrated management information system that provides a single and coherent source of clinical, operational, financial and management information, from which sophisticated web-based reports and analyses can be generated quickly and efficiently.

CACI is now at the forefront of the healthcare IT market, working with only the very best technologies from companies including Business Objects, Microsoft and Oracle.

Email: info@caci.co.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 161 848 8074 (Angela Norman)
Web: www.caci.co.uk

Still manually administering user computer accounts?

ESR has been successfully established as the NHS Human Resources system. So why not use this unique source of person data to manage your user computer accounts?

BDS Solutions Directory Manager™ uses ESR data to automatically administer user accounts on your computer network, a proven solution that delivers:

• the release of technical resources
• improvement in user data quality
• reduction in management costs
• enhancement of computer systems security

BDS Solutions’ Integrated Directory Services Portfolio is a comprehensive suite of Identity Management (IdM) products and services specifically developed to ensure NHS organisations extract the maximum business benefit and value from a Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure.

Email: ids@bds-solutions.co.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1884 33440 (Paul White)
Web: www.bds-solutions.co.uk

Intersystems

Healthcare professionals want to exploit the value in their existing systems, implement new strategic solutions, and participate in the growing number of regional and national initiatives aiming to provide greater access to patient information.

Ensemble is a major breakthrough in healthcare integration – a single product with the flexibility to tackle a wide range of messaging and orchestration projects, plus the rapid enrichment of existing applications by adding browser based interfaces, rules-based business processes, adaptable workflow and much more.

Contact us to hear how NHS organisations are using Ensemble to handle complex integration projects - reducing development time, minimizing management overhead and enjoying the benefits of lower cost of ownership.

BridgeForward

BridgeForward was founded by the same team that created MicroScript Corporation. More than 3,000 healthcare users worldwide have selected BridgeForward’s ClearSpan Server ™ and Edge4 ™ technology for their integration needs. Our customers and partners include NHS Scotland; 90% of all private hospitals in the UK; numerous NHS Trusts; software application developers; and systems integrators.

ClearSpan Server is optimised for both tactical, departmental interface engine needs while at the same time easily scalable to meet strategic, enterprise-wide integration requirements. Edge4, the embeddable, private label version of ClearSpan provides software suppliers with a low cost, standardized way to provide robust integration to their “Best of Breed” solutions.

E-mail: gina.stradis@bridgeforward.net
Tel: +44 (0) 1344 742833 (Gina Stradis)
Web: www.bridgeforwardsoftware.com/

NHS Integration Made Easy

Need to easily link to Connecting for Health systems? Need to rapidly integrate existing applications across your facilities? Rhapsody Integration Engine is a cost-effective solution for NHS organisations who want to take back control of their interfacing requirements, eliminating long-term reliance on expensive consultants.

Recent NHS organisations to adopt Rhapsody include East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust.

Rhapsody Integration Engine offers Trusts and Health Boards significantly faster message speeds, as tested at IBM labs, and supports messaging and format translation for all healthcare standards including HL7, XML and EDIFACT. Contact Orion Health for a trial copy!

E-mail: simon.philpott@orionhealth.com
Tel: +44 (0)870 432 9580 (Simon Philpott)
Web: www.orionhealth.com/uk/rhapsody/

WCI Consulting Ltd

For 21years we have focused on areas where we can deliver exceptional value. We combine our long standing NHS experience with a demonstrable track record of delivering solutions to meet the specific process, service and technology needs of our NHS clients.

Having worked alongside NPfIT since its inception, we have a detailed understanding of the architecture, technology and applications that support it. Our broader integration experience is having worked with over 200 NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations, simplifying processes and technology to reduce waste and improve patient care.

In Healthcare, Integration is not just a technology issue; it’s a clinical care and business issue. Our approach is simple. We build Lean patient pathways, supporting them with the appropriate information flow and then enabled by technology. Our published White Paper considers how ‘Integration starts with good patient information flow’.

E-mail: info@wcigroup.com
Tel: +44 (0)2392 268133 (Janet Waplington)
Web: www.wcigroup.com