Systems integration in action

Before embarking on a major systems integration project, there’s nothing more reassuring than knowing that someone in a similar sort of position has made a particular approach work well or used an integration engine to good effect.

In this Special Report we bring together case studies from around the country showing how healthcare organisations are tackling systems integration challenges in a variety of settings from rural areas to large city hospitals and the UK’s first Academic Health Sciences Centre.

BridgeForward Making Best of Breed Work
CACI Integrating systems to make an ace reporter
Orion Rhapsody delivers harmony at UHL
ReStart Integration at the UK’s first Academic Health Science Centre
SRC Digital dictation integrated with PAS delivers efficiency and savings

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

RTT success by streamlining document creation

SRC has helped over 25 Trusts achieve cost savings and productivity improvements through the deployment of Digital Dictation and Speech Recognition solutions. Our experience and knowledge has established us as the UK's No. 1 provider of document creation technologies.

SRC is the exclusive European WinScribe Platinum Partner and holder of several Dragon Partner Awards, recognising the high quality of our solutions. We combine these best-of-breed technologies, with award-winning services, to deliver solutions that are proven to dramatically save time and money. Our solutions improve team working and help NHS Trusts meet the DoH 18 week delivery programme.

Most recently SRC delivered Digital Dictation solutions integrated with PAS at The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and East Sussex Hospital NHS Trust.

E-mail: carls@src.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7471 0100 (Carl Sargent)
Web: www.src.co.uk/industries/Healthcare.html

Choice, Best of Breed and Integration

BridgeForward’s interface engine, ClearSpan Server, is being used by hundreds of hospitals and GPs throughout the UK to solve critical integration challenges.

In Scotland, it serves as the nation-wide “spine” for SCI-Store, connecting 204 hospitals and 1,100 GPs.

At Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University Hospital North Staffordshire, NHS Trust, ClearSpan Server is used to “amplify” the capabilities of iSoft’s iIE by connecting a multitude of applications to iIE and through to it iPM and iCM.

At BMI/General Healthcare, Nuffield Hospitals and Ramsey Health, ClearSpan Server serves as a system-wide integration hub.

ClearSpan Server: stable, enterprise-wide, integration at a manageable cost. Find out more:

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

InterSystems

InterSystems Corporation is a global software product company with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 22 countries. InterSystems provides innovative products that enable fast development, deployment, and integration of enterprise-class applications. InterSystems TrakCare™ is an advanced patient-centric healthcare information system that is installed in leading hospitals in 25 countries. InterSystems CACHÉ is a high performance object database that makes applications faster and more scalable. InterSystems Ensemble® is a rapid integration platform that enriches applications with new functionality, and makes them connectable. InterSystems HealthShare is a platform that leverages existing healthcare applications to rapidly create regional or national electronic health records.

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

E-mail: Helen.Dew@InterSystems.com
Tel: +44 (0)1753 855450 (Helen Dew)
Web: www.InterSystems.co.uk

Accelerating Connectivity in the NHS

Rhapsody Integration Engine is a cost-effective tool for NHS organisations who want to take back control of their interfacing requirements, eliminating long-term reliance on expensive consultants. Rhapsody offers rapid connectivity between existing systems within a Trust, as well as integration to systems deployed under Connecting for Health.

Rhapsody is in use at NHS organisations across the UK, including East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

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

Email: simon.philpott@orionhealth.com
Tel: +44 (0) 7875 493 175 (Simon Philpott)
Web: www.orionhealth.com/uk/rhapsody/

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.

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