NetSearch - A Complete Picture of Activity

All across your Trust, there are computer systems holding large amounts of invaluable information. Information about what you do, how you do it, how well it works.

Each of those systems probably produces a wide range of standard reports, telling you many of the things you need to know about the area actually covered by the system.

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But what if you need to know about how different areas of your hospital interact with each other? How outpatient appointments link up with diagnostic services and to eventual admission as an inpatient? How broadly similar cases lead to substantial differences in the account given of them in discharge letters?

And what if you need to know something you hadn’t previously built into a standard report? A question concerning perhaps a particular group of patients who can’t be defined within the functions built into your standard reports? Particularly if that question means getting information from a range of systems?

That’s where NetSearch, from Ardentia, comes into its own.

It bridges the gap between many different systems. And it lets you define new reports quickly and easily, whether they are to be added to your standard reporting and run repeatedly in the future, or whether they are just to answer an immediate ad hoc question.

Power, flexibility, integration. These are the keywords of NetSearch as an information tool essential to your work.

A Picture built on Structured and Unstructured Data

Whether information you’re interested in is stored in your PAS or Departmental Systems and whether the data is in databases, documents, spreadsheets, Web pages or any combination of them all, NetSearch hunts through all sources, linking data on patient identifiers, diagnoses, procedures or any other characteristic that matters to you, to pull it into a single repository.

Giving you a complete picture of what’s happening to your patients.

So you can answer the questions that make a real difference:

What other outpatient appointments, inpatient spells, diagnostic tests or other care has this patient had?
How many patients, from which commissioners, have had GP letters issued that mention a particular condition?
What diagnostic services have been provided, or not provided, for patients with any of a particular range of diagnoses?

and far more besides.

Ad-hoc Querying: Fast, Flexible and Intuitive

Predefined reports provide the backbone of your management and monitoring needs but aren’t there always occasions when you need to extend your reporting abilities and create your own one-off reports to answer specific questions?

This often means employing a team of specialist data analysts with the skills to manipulate the underlying data into reports. This can be a costly and frustrating process especially if you need the information at that very moment.

NetSearch’s ad hoc reporting abilities, makes it easy to answer the hardest questions.

Thanks to its intuitive interface you can interact with your underlying data without ever having to write a single line programming code, quickly building even the most complicated reports in just a matter of minutes. Selecting values for rows and columns and applying predefined calculations to the data is done with a click of the mouse button building reports before your eyes.

What’s more these ad hoc reports can be saved, modified and shared with anyone in your Organisation just as easily as they were built. This means that you can use them just once or add them to your standard reporting set.

NetSearch Dashboards

With the ever increasing demands on your time, it’s becoming increasingly important for you to see the information you need as quickly and easily as possible.

NetSearch Dashboards enable you to build a set of reports and charts that give you an instant view of activity in your organisation all on a single screen.

And being built on top of your actual data, if you still need more information you can simply drill down through the data to the underlying records.

And this just scratches the surface of what NetSearch can do for you: because it browses all its information sources, it allows users with minimal training to run their own completely ad hoc reports as and when they want to, as well as providing standard reports that can be run as often as necessary.