The cornerstone of any business intelligence reporting system is confidence in the underlying data. Confidence that the data is accurate, that it is secure and that it is up-to-date. Only then can you be sure that figures displayed in reports give an accurate picture of your organisation.

HealthWare, from Ardentia, is a set of data warehousing tools specifically designed to give healthcare organisations that confidence.

Developed for the NHS in collaboration with forward-thinking trusts, our HealthWare data warehouse provides a single repository for the data from each of your departmental information systems. HealthWare’s database structure, its schema, complies with national requirements such as the Commissioning Data Set layout specified in England. It is designed to enable you to first load data into a staging database where you can perform quality checks, updates and transformations. Only once you are happy with your data is it released it into the live reporting database.

Built on Microsoft’s SQL Server technology which means HealthWare is both secure and robust and is also able to integrate with a wide range of other products in use across the NHS.

And with the Feeder Manager extension, HealthWare will automatically import the latest extracts from your source systems into the warehouse. This ensures you always have the latest data available to you and your team.

Accurate, secure and up-to-date. These are the characteristics that make HealthWare an ideal foundation for your business intelligence reporting system.

HealthWare Manager – Data Warehouse Administration Made Easy

HealthWare Manager is Ardentia’s data warehouse administration tool used to manage the HealthWare data warehouse.

By presenting the tasks required to administrate a large data warehouse as a series of easy-to-use screens, HealthWare Manager makes these tasks far simpler. This means that data warehouse administration is no longer solely the preserve of a specialist Database Administrator which enables your team to focus more on the data they are processing and less on how they are processing it.

Here are some of the tasks that HealthWare Manager simplifies:

• Loading Data – Mapping your data feeds to the HealthWare data warehouse is done using a series of configuration screens without the need for any additional programming work.
• Performing Data Quality Checks – Configurable validation rules enable you to perform quality checks on your data before it is released for reporting.
• Maintaining Reference Data – HealthWare manager gives you an intuitive interface to update the reference data held in the HealthWare data warehouse.
• Automatically Deriving Data Items – HealthWare Manager automatically derives certain essential data items to improve the speed and efficiency of reporting.
• Producing Data Extracts – HealthWare enables you to produce flat-file CDS extracts for use outside of HealthWare.

In addition to this HealthWare Manager also integrates with the latest HRG Grouper software enabling you to derive important data items from the single HealthWare Manager interface.

HealthWare and HealthWare Manager – A Powerful Combination

Selecting Ardentia’s HealthWare and HealthWare Manager as your enterprise-level data warehousing means you’re getting a system from a proven supplier of healthcare business intelligence solutions. You’ll also be getting a solution that’s been specifically designed for healthcare organisations, with powerful functionality built in, which nonetheless remains easy to use.

So why not contact Ardentia today and find out how HealthWare could improve your organisation?