Mobility is an area of concern for most organisations, but for few is it as complex, mandated and challenging as it is for NHS trusts. There are a handful of key clinical applications and services that are the lifeblood of the modern trust and to deliver them securely to any device, anywhere is the ultimate ambition.
The benefits of being able to deliver EPR (Electronic Patient Records) or PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) to a clinician’s device right at the bedside have obvious and tangible benefits with regards to quality and effectiveness of care. To deliver these applications across a diverse range of devices and locations, and in a manner that fulfils all security and patient information mandates requires specialist knowledge and experience as well as careful vendor selection.
Datrix has been working with its select group of vendors for two decades to carefully select and shape solutions specifically for the NHS and its increasingly intricate networking environments.
Analytics technologies are becoming more and more vital to the day to day operations of our NHS clients. Deploying technologies from our two key analytics vendors, Extreme Networks and Nexthink, we help our customers to understand how their IT services are being both provisioned and consumed, where issues in service delivery lie, how key clinical applications are being utilised, the rate at which they are being adopted etc.
One such example of this would be the current drive within the NHS to adopt a paperless of paper light strategy. Achieving a paperless hospital would require the deployment of a highly resilient, always available Software platform. Any such project would likely represent a major investment on the part of the trust and Analytics can play a part in ensuring both a successful delivery and speedy ROI.
Analytics, in this instance would allow the trust to ascertain the rate of adoption of its new investment, to understand the extent at which is being utilised, to identify any problems in service delivery and where those issues reside; with the network, server or application itself. Solutions of this sort can also be used to monitor the performance of Outsource suppliers and the services they provide, providing clear and concise analytics to avoid unnecessary finger pointing when problems arise.
