Ardentia’s primary goal is to assist NHS organisations in delivering the highest quality, most cost effective care to patients and service users through the best use of our business intelligence platform.

The Ardentia Solution Wheel

The wheel below summarises the contribution that our solutions make to our customers across the Health Service. At the heart of everything is the patient and their experience of healthcare. The Ardentia solution provides you with a wealth of information about your patients – giving you the clearest picture of patient activity for your organisation – alongside the cost and income of treating those patients.

Evidence Based Management

Ardentia’s company strapline is ‘Evidence Based Management’. That’s because we truly believe that the key to good business decision-making lies in basing those decisions on the best available evidence. This drive to provide healthcare professionals with the best available evidence is the foundation for all Ardentia solutions, and we pride ouselves on our ability to improve your organisational performance as a result of using the information they provide.

Ardentia is truly a one-stop-shop for your business intelligence needs.  Why not find out more about what we can offer by using the menu to the left?

For any enquiries, please email info@imsardentia.com or call 0844 848 1204

Maximise theatre utilisation to deliver a more productive, more efficient and more effective service.

Expensive to maintain, costly to run

Operating theatres are a major cost element in the delivery of acute care, with average theatre running costs estimated at £4,000 per session. A 2010 study by the NHS Confederation found that only 47% of active theatre hours constituted actual operating time, with late starts, early finishes and turnaround time accounting for over a third (34%) of the total scheduled time in operating theatres.

An acute responsibility?

The NHS needs to make savings of £20bn by 2014. Effective management of theatre utilisation is essential if this is to be achieved. As acute hospitals become increasingly competitive, this expensive resource must maximise overall productivity to ensure their survival.

Having a clear understanding of theatre utilisation will enable you to increase theatre productivity, maintain quality and reduce costs.

Ardentia can help

Ardentia’s Theatres reporting module lets you:

• Monitor and report on operating theatre sessions, enabling you to identify specific areas where efficiency can be improved.
• Analyse theatre utilisation, capacity, session cancellations, over- and under-runs, surgeon lists.
• Look at patient operation information, including analyses of the patient journey into and out of theatre.
• Improve patient experience and reduce waiting times.
• Collect data to support ‘The Productive Operating Theatre’.
• See which theatres and surgeons are maximising utilisation whilst maintaining quality, giving you the evidence you need to encourage under-performers to change the way they do things

Contact Ardentia

To find out more about Ardentia’s Theatres module email info@ardentia.co.uk or call us on 0844 848 1204.

Click here to download the Theatres flyer.

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Ensuring patients receive treatment in a timely fashion requires effective waiting list management.

Waiting Lists

Our Waiting Lists reporting module enables you to monitor patient activity across:

• Outpatient Future Appointments.
• Elective Admissions List.

Outpatient Future Appointments

The Outpatient Future Appointments module enables you to analyse patients who are currently waiting to be seen in an outpatient clinic.

In particular, it allows you to identify patients whose currently allocated appointment date might result in waiting times from referral to appointment that exceed local and national standards. The analyses cover three areas:

• Outpatient Future Activity.
• Outpatient Future Targets.
• Outpatient Future Waiting List Predictions.

Elective Admissions Lists

The Elective Admissions Lists module gives you the ability to analyse monthly inpatient and day case waiting lists. The comprehensive reports supplied to you with the module show:

• Comparisons between treatment functions and consultants, between providers and between PCTs and GP practices.
• Monthly trends.
• Waiting Time Distributions.

The reports also highlight to you changes in waiting times since the previous month as well as changes over the previous year.

In addition, you can examine waiting times by operative procedure.

Download the product sheet for Waiting Lists

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Enabling the secure sharing of information to support decision-making based on the best available data.

Building on success

Cassius Vision is the latest version of Ardentia’s highly successful web-based reporting and analysis tool, which is currently in use at over 80 NHS organisations. With the most recent phase of development, Ardentia has radically improved this highly effective tool’s look and feel to deliver a better user experience.

Save time with faster navigation

A fundamental change in Cassius Vision’s usability provides you with an easier way of navigating through reports, getting the right information delivered to you in the right way. It uses an approach that will be familiar to any user of common software systems. Commands are presented in logically associated groupings held in drop-down menus. ‘Bread-crumbs’ show the path you have taken to get to a specific screen and how to get back to an earlier position. These improvements make accessing the information you need to manage a healthcare organisation for the difficult times ahead an easier, less time consuming experience.

Flexible screen layouts

Cassius Vision’s new interface has four areas, of which three – to the left, to the right and above the main panel – control navigation and commands for the reporting tool. Each of these can be hidden as desired – to make the most of the space available for the central reporting area – or revealed to give access to commands and other parts of the system.

Online help, whenever you need it

From anywhere in Cassius Vision you can access the online help through a simple command button and drop-down menu.

A customisable interface

Cassius Vision’s new flexibility enables you to change the way Vision looks simply by applying any of a number of themes that change colours and formats.

Plus, it’s now even easier to customise Cassius Vision for your organisation by including a logo and name.

A better user experience

Cassius Vision makes it easier for you to access and analyse key information about your organisation’s performance, giving you a clearer view of what’s really happening.

Contact Ardentia

To find out more about Cassius Vision email info@ardentia.co.uk or call on 0844 848 1204.

Click here to download the Cassius Vision flyer.

Supporting the information revolution.

20 years experience

Ardentia’s HealthWare data warehouse is the result of 20 years experience in providing world class data warehousing and information reporting to the healthcare sector. The primary purpose of HealthWare is to consolidate data from disparate source systems to provide a central source of high quality, reliable data for organisation-wide reporting purposes.

Ardentia has an unrivalled understanding of what NHS organisations need from a data warehouse, and we have the track record to prove it.

Powerful data management

HealthWare comes complete with its own powerful Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) and data management tool for loading data from multiple sources into a common data warehouse.

This tool provides you with a data validation, cleansing, data derivation, quality reporting and publishing facilities that enable you to control what data is made available for reporting within your organisation and also ensures the reliability and accuracy of the data.

Accurate, consistent, reliable data

The software enables you to define and customise rule–based update and validation routines that automatically run when a record or batch of records is loaded into your data warehouse. This helps you to ensure your data maintains the highest levels of accuracy and consistency.

In-built quality checks

All data validation and update routines – or quality checks – are carried out in a staging database. Data is only transferred to your production database after it has been through the quality cycle. The same quality routine is carried out whatever the source of the data, whether it is from single or combined data sources derived from within the data warehouse, OLAP cubes or through third party products such as a post coder.

Transformation mapping

The ‘point and click’ transformation mapping tool enables your data warehouse designers or advanced users to easily acquire new data sources and define the necessary mapping and formatting routines to load the data into your data warehouse. Ardentia’s data management tool also provides data quality reports and ‘store and forward’ facilities to help with gathering and transmitting data from your Operational and Batch systems into your data warehouse.

A RiO adaptor for mental health

Mental health trusts using the RiO patient administration system can now undertake more in-depth, enterprise-wide reporting with our specially designed RiO adaptor.

The adapter maps data from the CSE Servelec’s RiO PAS into Ardentia’s Healthware data warehouse, providing clinicians and managers with a unified business intelligence platform to undertake more comprehensive trust-wide analysis, as well as allowing them to prepare for the wider adoption of service line management and reporting in mental health trusts. With increasing pressure on mental health trusts to carry out more detailed financial reporting and operate on a firm business footing, it is vital that they have a system that gives them trust-wide access to data and facilitates in-depth reporting.

Ardenita has developed the RiO adapter to help mental health trusts meet these requirements, allowing them to make more informed management decisions to improve efficiency and enhance service user care.

With mental healthcare requiring the involvement of several different health professionals working in partnership to provide complex packages of care, the solution enables this data to be reviewed and analysed in a single repository. By combining records from sources such as the PAS and other clinical systems, with finance and workforce data, clinicians and managers can carry out more detailed analyses to meet NHS reporting requirements.

Contact Ardentia

To find out more about how HealthWare can transform your operational efficiency and improve the reliability of your data please email info@ardentia.co.uk or call 0844 848 1204.

To download the appropriate HealthWare flyer, choose from the following:

HealthWare for acute care
HealthWare for commissioners
HealthWare for mental health

You have a responsibility to protect patient privacy. Ardentia can help.

Why pseudonymise patient identifiable data?

The NHS makes extensive use of patient level data collected in the processes of delivering care. When use of the patient record data is not supporting the direct delivery of care or healthcare purposes, it is regarded as being ‘a secondary use’ of the data.  In accordance with Confidentiality: NHS Code of Practice, NHS organisations are required to pseudonymise patient information for use in research, teaching, auditing, management activities and other secondary uses.

The Pseudonymisation Implementation Project (PIP) required NHS organisations to have set plans by 2 October 2009 for implementing pseudonymisation functionality by March 2011.

How can Ardentia help?

Ardentia have developed a pseudonymisation tool that works not only with Ardentia’s proprietary data warehouse solution, but that can also be applied to other data warehouses based on SQL Server 2008 r2. By applying this tool you can rapidly ensure that you meet the requirements of PIP in time for the March 2011 deadline and avoid significant penalties, such as those covered by EHI in January 2010.

How does pseudonymisation work?

Pseudonymised information is similar to anonymised information in that in the possession of the holder it cannot reasonably be used by the holder to identify an individual. However it differs in that the original provider of the information may retain a means of identifying individuals. This will often be achieved by attaching codes or other unique references to information so that the data will only be identifiable to those who have access to the key or index.

Pseudonymisation allows information about the same individual to be linked in a way that true anonymisation does not. When consistently applied, pseudonymisation enables records to be linked over different data sets, different organisations and time, so that a population view of health care and associated activities can be developed from the pseudonymised records, without identifying individuals.

Contact Ardentia

For more information about how Ardentia can help you to pseudonymise secondary use data please email info@ardentia.co.uk or call us on 0844 848 1204.

Click here to download the Pseudonymisation flyer.