Getting to grips with data storage, transfer and search

Storing, transferring and searching NHS data are vital information processes that support the service's work from bedside care to broadbrush public health policy making.

These three articles from Ardentia, a leading provider of healthcare business intelligence solutions, look at how organisations can better manage their data warehouses; how they can handle migration of legacy data; and how they can deliver search tools to help all staff find and use data more effectively.

Getting more from your warehouse How should NHS trusts and organisations best approach opening their data warehouses to local service providers and for managing Payment by Results and Practice-Based Commissioning? Ardentia looks at the issues. Data Migration from Legacy Systems How do trusts and local health economies migrate the container-loads of data from their legacy systems to newer LSP solutions, to enable joined-up patient and client records? Historically, data migration from legacy systems has proven a headache for IT staff, with information missing, duplicated or in a proprietary format which makes working with the data difficult. Search Party Finding the right information and using it effectively gets harder for NHS organisations. Here's how the right enterprise search tools help Making information within an NHS organisation widely available to staff that need it can be a headache. The issue is that data is often scattered outside the corporate data warehouse, in various systems and data silos.

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