Stalis has been selected to supply a Business Intelligence Solution to Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust.
Ian Baines, the Trust’s Finance Director said of the contract “As a Trust formed in 2008 from the mental health services in two PCTs we were looking for a supplier with wide patient information integration experience, delivery capability, quality and Value for Money. Stalis delivered highly in all of these areas. They showed an understanding of our needs and demonstrated a real passion for delivering exemplary solutions in the NHS”.
Neal Lamb, Head of Performance and Planning went on to say “We have a well defined plan to bring together PAS and Clinical Mental Health data from legacy systems in both Dudley and Walsall and migrate these eventually to Lorenzo. Stalis clearly understands the needs of NHS Trusts exceptionally well and has shown it has delivered excellent solutions in the past. Their CareXML solution provides a window to the Integrated Patient Record and also offers us true business continuity in the data migration process. This in effect de-risks the project and that was good news to everyone concerned.”
“CareXML is rapidly gaining a significant market footprint” added Christine Whitehouse, Stalis’ Managing Director, “ Over the past year or so we have won a number of large long term deals with Trusts who have recognised that there is so much more to Data management than buying a data warehouse and dashboard tools. With most Trust undergoing PAS and other system changes they have realised they need a single solution that will see them through from data extraction/cleansing and migration to full enterprise wide reporting – in fact business continuity, and that is what CareXML has been designed to deliver".
Stalis wins 4 new CareXML “Business Continuity” Data Warehouse and Reporting contracts in the NHS
Stalis is pleased to announce four new contracts worth in excess of £1million, to deliver the next generation of Data Warehouse and Management Reporting Systems to deliver Business Continuity in the NHS
“The contract awards are from The Oxford Radcliffe,
Stalis’ clients have come to recognise the considerable support that management reporting systems, where designed specifically for the evolving needs of the NHS, can provide complete business continuity when delivered as an end-to-end solution in preparation for migrating from legacy to new systems provided under NPfIT. Irrespective of what stage a Trust maybe the need to achieve interoperability between all their disparate systems and draw together data for reporting, poses a huge challenge. All the more so as Trusts have to respond to RTT pathway, Cancer Wait Times, Discharge Summaries and similar targets.
CareXML combines the complete suite of software tools and services to support data extraction, cleansing, local data warehouse and sophisticated end user driven reporting, all built on a modern technology platform employing Intersystems Ensemble for interoperability. CareXML has been fully proven over the lifetime of NPfIT in supporting the transfer of Primary and Secondary Care Trusts to LSP provided systems.
Stalis, the UK Healthcare information and data management specialists announced that it is delighted to have been appointed to the Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) Framework agreement to provide a wide range of Information products and services to the NHS.
The new ASCC framework contracts are for a four year duration. This will allow NHS organisations and other NHS funded establishments a faster and easier route to procure IT systems and services from suppliers who have demonstrated experience in the health sector. ASCC can be used to support both the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) related work and wider IT related projects.
Stalis’s Managing Director, Christine Whitehouse, said "This welcome initiative by NHS Connecting for Health has recognised the part that committed dedicated and experienced Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) specialist providers have to play in the delivery of high quality healthcare information solutions to the NHS."
Editors Note:
Stalis has supported the NHS with PAS, Data Migration, Management reporting, Maternity, A&E, Clinical departmental and Decision support systems for over 20 years, this new initiative builds on our proven capability to innovate, deliver and support robust solutions in the highly demanding healthcare arena.
For further information please contact:
John Wiltshire
Sales & Marketing Director
john.w@stalis.com
Stalis is currently recruiting to support the exciting developments in their market leading business plans. We are looking for highly motivated and commited professionals, preferably with experience of the NHS IT market, over a range of positions including project and product management, implementation, training, Net/Ajax and SQL Server database development and design. If you are interested in exploring the opportunities offered by the UK's leading Healthcare data management specialists, please email your cv or write to:
Christine Whitehouse, Managing Director, Stalis Ltd, The Spendlove Centre, Charlbury, Oxford, OX7 3PQ christine.w@stalis.com
Taunton and Somerset successfully went live on Cerner Millennium just before Christmas. Stalis was widely praised for their CareXML Data Migration applications and services and acknowledged for the excellent quality of the data that was migrated. CareXML Care Record software is being retained by the Trust for data archiving and providing links to departmental systems that have not yet been migrated.
To meet the growing demand from Trusts facing the trauma of converting from existing Patient Administration Systems to the Care Record Service, Stalis has extended its highly successful CareXML data management software and services portfolio to include a Local Data Warehouse (LDW) for business continuity and long term management reporting.
In moving to the CRS Trusts have been faced with the prospect of buying three or even four different solutions to meet all their conversion needs for data extraction, cleansing and transformation, a historic patient data repository for non transferred patient data and a local data warehouse to support all the critical reporting requirements. This situation has been exacerbated with the introduction of 18WW and the recognition that some of the new systems cannot provide all the CDS data required. Trusts have found with the move to CRS that their business continuity is at risk.
The Solution
The Stalis CareXML strategy has long been based on the premise that for timely and accurate reporting Trusts must have a robust system that extracts and produces quality data. The CareXML portfolio already combines an end-to-end solution for data extraction, cleansing, consolidation, migration and transformation coupled with a repository for historic patient data that can be ‘kept alive’ after the move to CRS. Now, with the general release of the LDW Trusts can be assured all their reporting requirements can be met from one fully integrated and proven solution.
Speaking of this development Christine Whitehouse, Stalis Managing Director commented “Stalis has invested over three years of R&D in bringing this new solution to fruition. We now have a single modular solution that allows Trusts to make one investment as part of their move to CRS such that the resources used in migration benefit the Trust across their current and future reporting needs”
Technical Director Peter Gamston added “Our goal was to provide Trusts with a single data management and reporting architecture and thus ensure we offered Trusts both unrivalled value for money as well as the security of business continuity. Our latest addition to the CareXML portfolio allows Trust Information departments to provide a single source solution to all the users, including full dashboard capabilities for Key Performance Indicators to support senior management and clinicians. Our vision is to extend the CareXML LDW so that Trusts can at last undertake accurate and timely patient based costing as the capabilities of CRS are rolled out.
Recently, Fujitsu Business Services announced their choice of the Stalis CareXML LDW as part of the Fujitsu Business Continuity LDW solution for all Trusts in the Southern Cluster. Christine Whitehouse said “this partnership is a milestone in the development of Stalis and CareXML as well as recognition of the excellent Healthcare information solutions that it offers.
On Sunday 10th June the first patient was admitted to Moorfields Eye Hospital’s new CareXML® based Electronic Patient Record system (EPR) provided by Stalis. The Stalis EPR, powered by Silverlink PCS, one of the UK’s most widely used Patient Administration Systems , provides the Trust with a fully NPfIT compliant solution for Choose & Book and 18 week pathways and replaces a 1980s bespoke system. The Stalis EPR is built around the CareXML® Patient Data Repository.
The actual go live, achieved in ten months, required no more than 36 hours operational downtime for the final migration and testing processes to be completed and the objective of migrating the majority of appointment bookings (over 5000) to the new system was achieved despite major changes in clinic structures and organisation on the new system.
Today, Sheffield Children’s Hospital NHS Trust announced the successful completion of the first three phases (a major milestone) in their project to ‘clean’ patient data stored in multiple information systems preparatory to migrating to new NPfIT systems and linking to the National Spine record.
Russell Banks, IM&T Manager for the Trust, explained, “like many other NHS hospitals, Sheffield Children’s has suffered from the situation that it has patient demographic and episode related data stored across a number of current systems which made it difficult to get a consistent patient profile. The situation was made worse by the fact that the Trust’s Child Health system was a ‘closed’ technology and operating separately from the patient administration system (PAS)”
The Trust recognised that there were also problems commonly associated with disparate systems such as duplication of patients, difficulties in matching patients and other inconsistencies in the data. “ We needed to clean up this data and assign accurate NHS numbers to the patient records before we moved forward with the NPfIT” said Russell Banks
Working closely with Stalis in this project, the Trust recognised that they could leverage the combination of Stalis’s in depth understanding and knowledge of NHS data structures and current systems in combination with the CareXML methodology, dedicated software tools and repository to validate, cleanse and transform the data to create a single enterprise wide patient record that will be used to feed the smaller departmental systems. All three stages of the project were achieved as planned: -
- Firstly, Stalis extracted the ‘closed’ data from the two systems into new open databases
- This open data was then re-formatted into a common standard and sub-sets of all patient records (including those with NHS numbers) sent to the National Tracing Service to have their numbers checked or assigned.
- Once the traced records were returned the clean records (those with no duplications and a unique NHS number were stored within Stalis’s CareXML. Those records that ‘failed’ were then handed back to the Trust for investigation and, after amendment, re-submission.
Of the total 628,706 records processed, 356,220 (57%) were ‘clean’. Commenting on this Russell Banks said “ At first we were somewhat surprised that the figure for clean records was only about 60%. However, on reflection the process was thorough and exposed the extent to which duplicates and incomplete records can evolve over time when systems are not integrated and where patient data is entered more than once. We now feel the exercise has been extremely beneficial and plan to work with Stalis to ‘clean’ our other systems. It also reinforced the Trust’s decision to take an early action in its commitment to the NPfIT as cleaning integrating and migrating patient data is a big task, needing time and specialist skills. Our results show in a small way the magnitude of the task facing the NHS”
Ali McGuckin, Stalis’s Client Services Director, added “ The results have proved what can be achieved when suppliers and Trusts work as one team in a project, Sheffield Children’s staff and our own have recognised the importance of this project and the co-operation from the Trust was exemplary”