Alliance members

    • Ardentia

      Ardentia has extensive experience of working specifically in the Healthcare intelligence marketplace for the last 18 years and provides web based business intelligence solutions to support the delivery of high quality care whilst optimising financial performance.

      Ardentia provides a modular healthcare intelligence solution that builds value from the improvements made in integrating data, improving data quality, deriving new information and deploying this to end users. Central to this is ensuring that everyone who needs information – including clinicians, managers and finance teams - can access it in the form and at the level of detail appropriate to them. Ardentia address immediate business requirements but also provide an infrastructure to develop further as more systems become operational and new requirements evolve.

      Ardentia has thousands of users in over 100 healthcare clients, creating data and information rich environments supporting improved financial, performance and governance decision making. On the basis of its broad range and depth of experience Ardentia positions itself as one of the primary suppliers of tools for evidence based management in healthcare and its solutions include: Pathway Manager; Performance Manager; Patient Level Costing; Payment by Results and Mental Health and Community Care. In addition to this Ardentia’s new flagship solutions, Costed Care Pathways and Activity Flow Analytics will become essential for healthcare organisations to understand the nature of costs and income of the services they provide. These will become vital tools to allow organisations to understand and, where necessary, re-engineer their services to meet the growing financial pressures on healthcare delivery.

      www.ardentia.co.uk

    • Oracle

      Oracle brings comprehensive, end-to-end solutions to the healthcare industry to support best practices and decrease costs. Oracle's healthcare-specific applications help ensure quality care and decrease patient safety concerns through the integration of clinical data and the ability to analyze patient-specific information. Oracle delivers key functionality sought by healthcare providers. Functionality such as:

      • Integrated solution capable of aggregating clinical data meaningfully across disparate systems
      • Complete, standards-based, semantically interoperable HIE solution
      • Comprehensive, fully integrated talent solution - from recruitment to succession planning
      • Single set of controls for enterprise access and compliance management across contracting and finance
      • Integrated enterprise solution for secure provider collaboration and proud supporter of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise initiative.

      www.oracle.com/uk/industries/healthcare/index.html

    • BridgeHead Software

      BridgeHead Software is a recognised market leader in the provision of Healthcare Data Management (HDM) solutions for healthcare institutions. Its modular software systems have been specifically developed to remove the barriers between data backup and data archiving technologies, meaning that an organisation's enterprise data management strategies can be centrally managed and controlled. Today with over 300 healthcare networks worldwide, BridgeHead's HDM solutions and services are helping to support and manage healthcare data at more than 1000 hospital sites.

      With the exponential growth in data storage requirements and the increasing need for secure management and protection of electronic patient medical records and high resolution medical imaging, BridgeHead has designed its HDM software to meet these needs. This has been achieved by combining backup, archive and recovery capabilities with seamless integration into specialised healthcare systems and applications commonly found in healthcare environments. Integrated systems include HCIS from MEDITECH, PACS systems from multiple vendors, Microsoft applications and other recognised storage systems. As BridgeHead's HDM is storage and vendor agnostic, this provides the flexibility for it to work with any current and future mix of storage platforms healthcare organisations may have.

      BridgeHead's archiving and backup products include: BH MediStore for electronic health records, scanned patient records and PACS data archiving; BH OfficeStore for office data archiving and HT Backup for hospital data backup. These powerful technology tools allow healthcare organisations to realise the full potential of centrally managing their enterprise data, including healthcare and financial. Also by creating universal access to data, this means that healthcare professionals and business managers can obtain constant, fast and reliable information wherever and whenever it is needed.

      Founded in 1994, BridgeHead's industry expertise has been continually enhanced by its collaborative approach to working with its customers and strong network of technology partners. Its solutions have been proven to reduce the cost of owning data and managing storage as well as enabling the long-term retention and compliant management of healthcare data.

      www.bridgeheadsoftware.com

    • Dell

      Dell Services has delivered healthcare services for care providers for more than 20 years. We combine deep understanding of healthcare with a full suite of solutions customised for your organisation, including:

      • Smarter, more efficient clinical and
        business processes
      • Enhanced performance through next-generation computing solutions
      • Optimised patient safety
      • Better access to information through Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption
      • Enterprise Programme Management, IT Strategy, and Strategic Procurement Support
      • More effective information systems that seamlessly collect your data and allow you to access it easily and quickly whenever you need it
      • Greater cost control
      • IT innovation to attract and retain clinicians

      www.dell.co.uk

    • Clinical Solutions

      Clinical Solutions is a leading supplier of intelligent and flexible evidence-based decision support and clinical software solutions to the healthcare industry. Its suite of software applications, based on the Clinical Solutions IntefleCS™ platform, provides healthcare organisations with the ability to improve the accessibility of healthcare support and advice to patients. Effectively these solutions help healthcare professionals safely and consistently assess a patient’s symptoms and direct them to the most appropriate level of care within a range of environments including nurse triage and urgent care provision through to those involved in the management of patients with long term conditions. Through the provision of advanced decision support the benefits include significant improvements in the management of resources which results in lower costs, lower risks and a higher degree of patient satisfaction, which leads to an alleviation of pressure on emergency and primary healthcare services.

      Clinical Solutions is a market focused organisation that works with its customers to establish a close working partnership through the sharing of ideas, knowledge and expertise. Its scaleable solutions have been proven to guide clinicians to deliver best practice, whilst providing leading healthcare advice, and its products now support public and private healthcare organisations across the UK, Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand. In England its ground-breaking NHS-Direct software benefits over 50 million people and is the largest triage system in the world.

      www.clinicalsolutions.com

    • Sunquest

      Sunquest Information Systems is recognised as a market leader in the design, development and delivery of laboratory and diagnostic information solutions. Today more than 1,400 hospitals and commercial laboratories across the US, Canada, Western Europe and the Middle East utilise its software and services. Industry share includes more than 20 percent of US hospitals over 150 beds, 36 percent of the top 25 US medical centres and a 60 percent market share in laboratory connectivity, orders, reporting and messaging solutions in UK Trusts.

      Built on reliable technology required for mission critical applications, Sunquest's award-winning laboratory information systems have been designed to meet the business and healthcare delivery objectives of today’s healthcare providers. This is achieved by enabling the integration of various systems containing medical records, billing and financial information, laboratory data, and other lab-related information into a unified system.

      Sunquest’s suite of diagnostic solutions include: customisable IT health solutions, services and support for general laboratory, specimen collection and transfusion positive patient ID, microbiology, blood bank, molecular testing and pathology; positive patient identification solutions that enable zero error specimen collection management and closed loop transfusion management; outreach solutions that enhance patient safety by ensuring specimen integrity and customer relationship management and sales force automation and business Intelligence tools that provide comprehensive information regarding business processes and financials.

      Founded in 1979, Sunquest’s industry expertise has been continually enhanced by its collaborative approach to working with its customers. Its solutions ensure that they deliver against challenges healthcare organisations face such as exceeding patient safety goals and improving the quality and timeliness of delivery of clinical information as well as pioneering the implementation of predictive and personalised medicine. Sunquest also introduced the concept of Five Rights of Laboratory Testing to champion the importance of the laboratory in the safe delivery of healthcare.

      www.sunquestinfo.com