SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:BIRT), The people behind BIRT® and the leading open source Business Intelligence (BI) vendor, today announced that a regional division of the UK National Health Service (NHS), South of Tyne and Wear, has deployed CCG+, a powerful business application that will support Clinical Commissioning Group information requirements while driving substantial internal performance and efficiency improvements.
Powered by BIRT Performance Analytics and built on the unified ActuateOne business intelligence and reporting platform, the CCG+ solution is already giving the NHS greater control over the financial management of local healthcare services. It delivered an early return on investment of approximately $940,000 while also ensuring that the organization will be ready for the NHS’s transition to its new healthcare commissioning system in April 2013. The transition will transfer responsibility for commissioning NHS services from Primary Care Trusts to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), largely controlled by GPs.
The customized CCG+ application gives the NHS a means of consolidating emerging and historical data from a diverse range of disparate sources. This consolidation will enable improvements in patient care, increased operational efficiency and reduced excessive spending - because administrators and clinical staff now have an accurate, real-time overview of procurement activities at any given time.
CCG+ is also making it substantially easier for the NHS to monitor over 300 key performance indicators (KPIs) for its centrally devised performance management framework, a complicated and time-consuming venture that had previously required multiple data analysts.
“CCG+, powered by BIRT Performance Analytics, has freed our data analyst staff to provide more strategic support to our GP commissioners. That’s a significant amount of resource now realigned to support Clinical Commissioners in their new roles,” comments Scott Watson, Head of Business Delivery at NHS South of Tyne and Wear. Scott’s team also identified over $600,000 in excess charges which can now be avoided. “[The system] has already financed itself,” he says.
The NHS has implemented BIRT Performance Analytics along with the BIRT content to provide decision-makers with sophisticated high-level summary dashboards and reports - distilling critical information and defining which specific content each user is able to access. Deployment of the Actuate solution has been quick and efficient too. The NHS took CCG+ from concept to implementation in the space of just two months, while the scorecard component of the solution was ready to use on GPs’ desktops within a couple of weeks of development.
“Using BIRT Performance Analytics, the NHS can manage all aspects of organizational performance and deliver outstanding patient care by delivering scheduled as well as on-demand content to physicians, nurses and general staff,” says Utpal Bhatt, Vice President and General Manager within the Performance Management Group at Actuate. “CCG+ showcases how business intelligence can be used for positive operational improvement, allowing CCGs to focus immediately on healthcare with the data they need to effectively do their jobs available at their fingertips.”
To read more about this NHS deployment, please visit http://www.birtperformanceanalytics.com/se/solutions/industries/uk-nhs/
About NHS South of Tyne and Wear
NHS South of Tyne and Wear encompasses Gateshead Primary Care Trust (PCT), South Tyneside Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust (TPCT). While each PCT remains a statutory organization in its own right, the day-to-day management of the three organizations has been brought together under a single management team. NHS SoTW serves a population of around 644,000 people and works closely with local hospitals, GP practices, pharmacies, dental practitioners and optometrists, as well as social care partners, to ensure the best possible range of services are available to local patients.
Actuate – The people behind BIRT
Actuate founded and co-leads the Eclipse BIRT open source project. ActuateOne™ is a unified suite of products for rapidly developing and deploying BIRT-based custom Business Intelligence applications and information applications. Applications built with ActuateOne provide one user experience regardless of task or skill level; are supported by one server for any deployment including cloud and are built with one BIRT design that can access and integrate any data source - including high volume print streams. ActuateOne adds rich data visualizations, including interactivity, dashboards, analytics, and deployment options to web and mobile BIRT applications, helping organizations drive revenue through higher customer satisfaction and improved operational performance.
Actuate has over 5,000 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services and the public sector. Founded in 1993, Actuate is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BIRT. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.actuate.com or visit the BIRT community at www.birt-exchange.com.
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