CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD NHS
which wouldn ' t have happened so quickly if it had not been for the pandemic , or having the benefit of a well embedded clinical system .
" Our work on health inequalities is a great example of population health ", she adds . " I think it ' s become a very trendy term , but without a platform like ours , there is no population health because there ' s no real-time data . Because we ' ve now got that real-time data that comes in from all our systems , and
“ One of our best strategies is to share information as widely and broadly as we can ”
MANDY GRIFFIN MANAGING DIRECTOR , CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
not just from EPR , we ' re better informed . We understand our patient population , we understand our patient needs , and we understand where there is a prevalence of different illnesses across our population ."
Without Catalyst BI ( previously Qlick IT ) this would not have been possible . We have worked with Catalyst for as long as 10 years now . They have been our suppliers for Qlikview and QlikSense , the Business Intelligence software on which The Health Informatics Service ( THIS ) Information teams have put together the Knowledge Portal and Knowledge Portal plus solutions .
These solutions provide information to hundreds of users across the organisation , ranging from live dashboards detailing the current activity within the hospital to nightly fed reporting solutions covering a range of service areas . The coverage ( user base numbers ) and facilities ( number of applications and different data sources ) has grown year on year .
Another solution that has supported a more efficient clinical workflow is having a digital identity , and the trust partnered with IT security firm Imprivata to facilitate this . Imprivata has enabled a faster but controlled
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