Pathway Manager for RTT

Managing 18-week Waits and 26-week Waits

It’s great to know where you stand on meeting referral to treatment targets. But if collating information and building reports is taking all your staff’s time, where are you going to find the resource for actual pathway management?

If you’re taking too much time monitoring performance when will you be able to improve it?

And how much money is it worth spending to avoid buying a system to do the basic work for you, if that system could actually cost you less?

These are some of the questions the healthcare organisations that have purchased Ardentia’s Pathway Manager don’t have to ask any more.

They’ve installed a system that completes the fundamental work of pathway management for them - Pathway Manager:

Identifies patient pathways and the RTT pathways within them.
Monitors key stages within RTT pathways, including where a healthcare organisation decides, stages it defines itself.
Reports on achievement of those stages as well as overall targets, so that users get an early warning of a potential breach, long before it is likely to occur.
Produces all standard reports to meet all the statutory requirements of each nation.
Allows drill through to underlying patient records wherever necessary.

What’s more, because Pathway Manager uses the Ardentia Cassius Web-enabled reporting system, it delivers information to all authorised users in your healthcare organisation so they can take action in response to it.

This means that the time consuming tasks: ensuring pathways are built and analysed, statutory reports are produced and information is made available as necessary, are handled by Pathway Manager on your behalf. Enabling your staff, who would otherwise be tied up in these routine tasks, to carry out the much more valuable work of ensuring practice improves to meet targets and optimise the delivery of quality care.

Download the Pathway Manager Data Sheet

Download the Pathway Manager data sheet to find out how it could help you monitor the progress of each individual patient through your organisation.

Pathway Manager Version 2 – Extended Processing and Reporting Capabilities

Now with the release of version 2, Pathway Manager sites will also be drawing on a range of new functions that deliver even more benefits.

Extended reporting capabilities, to including reporting on the RTT position of groups of patients. This, for example, allows reporting on all patients due to attend a clinic: which means before the clinic begins, clinicians or managers can establish just where all of the patients due to attend are on their individual pathways.
Special handling of patients discharged with no procedure carried out (HRG S22): How many have there been? What is the likely impact on pathways?
Staff can enter Clock Stop information that doesn’t appear in standard data sets: for example, decision not to treat for clinical reasons.
Reporting on transfers in or out, and their effect on pathways: for example, transfers in with little time left to breach so that staff can take action to avoid a breach or alert commissioners about unavoidable breaches.
Reporting on pathways that are either adjusted or unadjusted for pauses. This allows central reports to be run with information about adjusted pathways but you can still see the overall pathway if you need.
Reporting on active monitoring and pathways affected by active monitoring so that you can split a single pathway into two RTT periods separated by Active Monitoring as appropriate.

These new functions, like those already included in Version 1, make Ardentia’s Pathway Manager the most effective tool available to monitor and, above all, to manage Referral To Treatment times.

Building on Proven Foundations

Version 2 of Pathway Manager builds on the proven foundations of version 1.

Which means, Pathway Manager continues to enable you to manage the entire pathway followed by a patient - from initial contact with a GP, though acute or other hospital treatment and, if appropriate, back to the GP. This makes RTT a tailor-made application of the Pathway Manager.

Using sophisticated matching techniques to identify events in your organisations data systems (e.g. patient administration and systems for diagnostic departments) that belong to the same pathways, Pathway Manager sequences them to build pathways of care.

This enables the Pathway Manager to identify the specific RTT elements and to generate the counts necessary to meet the mandated statutory requirements in each nation. Pathway Manager can also distinguish between clock start and clock stop events so uncompleted pathways can be identified as open, as opposed to complete or closed pathways. What’s more, Pathway Manager calculates the wait times between events.

It can therefore report on all waiting times and, most important of all, on risks of breach based on the current position of patients along the pathway.

This enables your managers to monitor progress along pathways on a daily basis and take action to avoid breaches in plenty of time.

Pathway Manager Referral To Treatment Module: Evidence Based Management of Referral to Treatment Times

Ardentia’s continuing commitment to deliver powerful information services that provide evidence based management means our Referral To Treatment module puts the information at your fingertips that you need to manage patient pathways.

It also means you can take the decisions to you need to take to keep waiting times under control, when you need to take them.

And it ensures you meet your reporting obligations with minimal effort, giving you time to concentrate on monitoring your patient pathways.