Alliance members
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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.
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Lawson Software
Lawson Software provides Enterprise Resource planning (ERP) software applications and with over 20 years experience has delivered solutions to over 4,500 hospitals worldwide. Its solutions have been developed to enable healthcare organisations manage their business by optimising management of their key operational resources - workforce, supplies and financial assets.
Recognised globally Lawson's solutions consist of business software applications that have been designed specifically to integrate with various operational areas of healthcare organisations including: supply chain and procurement; workforce and scheduling management; financial management; enterprise performance management and reporting/analytics with clinical outcomes and business intelligence. Application of Lawson solutions enables healthcare organisations to increase productivity; standardise processes; obtain greater visibility of key business information; bring costs under control and operate more efficiently. The results are an optimised use of resources leading to improved standards of patient care.
Working with an extensive global partner network Lawson can offer a one-stop-shop set of solutions ranging from provision of hosted and managed services, infrastructure and complementary systems through to consultancy and implementation. With its worldwide reach millions of people are benefiting from Lawson's solutions.
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SciQuest
SciQuest is a provider of procurement automation and supplier enablement solutions. The company’s specialised knowledge, on-demand software, and service-first approach empower healthcare organisations around the globe to realise the potential of strategic procurement by managing spend, driving return on investment (ROI), and advancing their critical missions to help improve patient care.
For more than a decade SciQuest has worked with healthcare provider, education and research-centric organisations to help streamline their procurement processes and better manage relationships with suppliers. Through software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment, the company’s modular suite of solutions have been designed to enhance and compliment existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) investments to allow organisations to fully enable all aspects of purchasing from sourcing to settlement.
SciQuest’s deep understanding of the healthcare market combined with a broad supplier network mean that the company’s eprocurement solutions give users online access to hundreds of supplier catalogues covering all categories of healthcare spending including: clinical, research, maintenance and technology. By providing an intuitive online buying environment healthcare organisations can rely on receiving accurate timely data ensuring they are ordering the right product, from the preferred supplier at the best negotiated price.
Healthcare providers are now realising greater visibility into enterprise spend through utilising SciQuest’s eprocurement solutions. By lowering supply costs, reducing errors, enhancing productivity and improving their operational efficiencies, healthcare organisations can now manage their spend, generate savings and reinvest in patient care and clinical research.
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System C Healthcare
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System C Healthcare plc, celebrating its 25th year in 2008, specialises in the provision of healthcare information systems, implementation services and consulting. Its aim is to help to improve patient care and safety through the effective use of IT solutions and innovative consulting services.System C works across both the public and private healthcare sectors including primary and secondary healthcare, mental health and social and community care.
Products include advanced PAS/EPR systems for acute and mental health hospitals and out of hospital treatment centres and a reporting and business intelligence system configured specifically to support the healthcare sector. System C also provides clinical systems for order communications, A&E, theatres, maternity, diabetes care and other clinical specialities and conditions.
In the UK System C has one of the largest teams of healthcare IT domain experts who provide systems implementation services such as system configuration and training; technical services such as data cleansing, data migration, interfacing and systems integration. Its team of professionals has an average of 15 years’ healthcare experience and have helped to implement clinical and Patient Management Systems (PMS) at over 180 UK trusts and hospitals.
System C also offers consulting services with a focus on the design of innovative, safe, ‘future-state’ healthcare services that are accessible, equitable and efficient to ensure high quality patient care. System C’s consulting capability adds value to its IT solutions in the areas of business change, commissioning, human resources and pre-operative assessment.
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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.
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Perceptive Software
Across an enterprise, Perceptive Software creates a direct and effortless connection between workers and the documents they need to complete daily activities. Using its flagship product, ImageNow, organisations can efficiently capture and organise all types of documents, then retrieve a precise page instantly from within any business application at the moment it is needed. ImageNow enhances the value of health information and business systems by providing immediately accessible context to unstructured documents, including printed documents e-mails, faxes, HIS reports, chart components and electronic data feeds. This provides healthcare staff with instant, single-click access to these documents from within the applications they use every day. Also, organisations can deploy ImageNow quickly and easily, yielding a rapid return on investment and inspiring a low total cost of ownership.
ImageNow is a proven healthcare solution. Recognised as ‘2007 "Best in KLAS" in document management and imaging’: Top 20 Year-End Best in Class Awards, more than 500 healthcare organisations and 800 individual hospitals use ImageNow. It integrates with virtually every HIS and business application, including iSOFT, Cerner, MEDITECH, McKesson, Siemens, Lawson, Epic and custom legacy systems. Integration is available in any of three methods – HL7, non-programmatic LearnMode technology and advanced EMR-specific applications (such as Interact for Epic). Organisations can deploy ImageNow in all functional areas of the healthcare enterprise.
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Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems develops technologies that help to power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision − 'The Network is The Computer' − Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership and provides a diversity of software, systems, services and microelectronics that power many activities ranging from developer tools to some the world's most powerful data centres. Its core brands include MySQL database management systems; Java technology platforms; Solaris operating system; StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries.
In the global healthcare market place Sun’s technologies power secure patient-centric health information exchange to enable real-time continuum of care. Supported by an extensive portfolio of healthcare software and service partners, Sun is able to deliver complete end-to-end solutions to its public and private healthcare customers. In terms of reliability, stability, and scalability thousands of healthcare providers rely of Sun technology and its industry-changing solutions - such as Java technology, the SolarisTM Operating System, and SPARC® technology - are now enabling the efficient exchange of critical information now being demanded within healthcare environments.
Sun has decades of experience working with federal, national and regional public healthcare administration; public and private hospitals; clinics and insurers around the world. It is an acknowledged leader in the design, delivery, and operation of large-scale health information exchange integration projects as well as hospital-based healthcare systems, with implementations in the US, Australia, Canada, Germany, UK, South Africa, Spain, Middle East and Singapore. Globally Sun's open interoperable and integrated software, storage systems and services help deliver secure health information exchange, data management, compliance, and caregiver mobility solutions that reduce costs and medical errors, while improving efficiency and quality of patient care.
www.sun.com/healthcare www.sun.com/solutions/landing/industry/health_care.xml
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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.
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Perot Systems
Perot Systems is a worldwide provider of information technology, offering IT services and business solutions to its customers across a range of commercial and public sector organisations. These services include business and technical consulting, development and integration of systems and applications, technology outsourcing, and business process outsourcing services.
Having served the healthcare industry since 1988, Perot Systems is recognised as one of the largest providers of consulting, business process, and technology-based solutions to this sector. Today more than 10,000 healthcare associates worldwide – including former clinicians, nurses and healthcare administrators - provide integrated, comprehensive business and technical services for all facets of the healthcare marketplace. Perot Systems also delivers clinical and healthcare business solutions through its MEDITECH Group which it acquired in 2007 and in addition has a global network of delivery centres which monitor and manage customers systems remotely.
Perot Systems serves more than 1,000 healthcare clients across the US, Europe and Asia delivering to them such solutions as benchmarking and diagnosing healthcare service delivery; clinical transformation and decision support; integration and outsourcing of business and finance processes using Six Sigma, CMMI, and other quality standards and practices; designing, implementing, and managing collaboration and shared care services infrastructure, including electronic patient records, and selecting, implementing, managing, and outsourcing technology including enterprise and clinical applications, Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) and Radiology Information Systems (RIS).
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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.
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