NetTransform - Ardentia's SUS XML Transformation Solution
As the SUS database is replacing the Nationwide Clearing Service as the main source of healthcare data, it is now vital for you to ensure that it is fed with high quality data. This will enable systems such as Payment by Results can operate effectively, and allow the accurate monitoring of performance levels and national datasets.
To coincide with the change over to the SUS database Connecting for Health (CfH) has also changed the format in which submissions must be made. The old EDIFACT standard has been replaced with a new XML format, known as “XML for SUS”.
Within the next few weeks your organisation will be required to submit its Commissioning Data Sets (CDS) data to SUS in the new SUS XML format. Only messages that are deemed to be compliant will be acceptable so it is vital that you choose a solution that has been certified by Connecting for Health.
Ardentia’s XML transformation solution, NetTransform, was amongst the first to be certified by Connecting for Health. NetTransform enables you to generate compliant and valid XML for onward transmission to SUS. It has already been successfully installed in a wide variety of organisations spread across PCTs, Informatics Services, Trusts and Foundation Trusts.
Helene Weston, information services manager at North Staffordshire, said:
“NetTransform makes the process of validating our CDS data and fulfilling our commitments to send it to SUS an easy to manage and straightforward exercise. Ardentia has supported us every step of the way during the system implementation and have helped to make the switch from EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport) to XML as quick and painless as possible.”
NetTransform provides you with an intuitive Web interface, an ease-to-use dashboard showing you system status, current activity and any errors in the input data that would cause rejection of data from SUS.
All data files processed with NetTransform are validated against the appropriate XML schema and faulty data flagged up before they are submitted to SUS, ensuring high quality data submissions and minimising the number of submissions that are rejected on the grounds of data quality.
Key features of the Ardentia SUS XML solution:
- Innovative and future–proofed approach.
- Instinctive Setup Wizard enabling easy implementation.
- Easy-to-use, with a simple and intuitive Web based user interface.
- Ardentia’s dashboard provides an insight into systems status, current activity, and syntactical errors in the input data that will cause rejections in SUS
- Supports latest NHS standards.
For further information, please contact:
ARDENTIA
Tel: 0870 267 0008
Email: sales@ardentia.co.uk