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Information Builders Improves Decision-Making for London NHS Foundation Trust
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Uses Leading-Edge Business Intelligence to Drive Performance and Improve Patient Care
| Source: Information Builders
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - October 27, 2008) - Information Builders, the leader in
operational business intelligence (BI)
solutions, today announced that it signed an agreement with Central and
North West London (CNWL) National Health Service Foundation Trust (NHS) to
deploy a custom-built BI solution across the organization. Information
Builders WebFOCUS platform will enable the Trust to measure its performance
and make process improvements against government and local targets as part
of the NHS commitment to providing quality patient care for all.
The system will gather key performance information from disparate sources
to allow NHS Foundation Trust managers to make more informed decisions on
improving patient care and driving performance. The solution will
automatically measure data against all key targets to enable improvements
both at an operational and strategic level.
The solution will extend beyond CNWL to gather details from multiple
organizations, including Primary Care Trusts and the Department of Health,
as well as from patients, to give Trust management a holistic view of its
performance. Using WebFOCUS, authorized users, including all CNWL staff,
can access, drill down, and analyze data relating to their specific area of
the Trust and use it to make necessary improvements and drive performance
metrics.
"The decision to implement the Information Builders solution is part of our
commitment to high-quality care for everyone who uses our services," said
CNWL's John Vaughan, director of partnerships and commercial development.
"We have approximately 3,400 members of staff at CNWL and a vast amount of
information is held across different systems. This platform will integrate
these systems, giving the Trust visibility into specific areas for
improvement. Most importantly, CNWL management will no longer spend so much
time sifting through vast quantities of data and instead can focus on
putting improvement initiatives into action quickly."
"Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is already recognized
for its outstanding accomplishments, having achieved Foundation Trust
status as a leader in its field and a performance rating of Excellent from
the Healthcare Commission," said Gerald Cohen, CEO and founder of
Information Builders. "This project will be instrumental for the Trust, not
only in helping it to achieve its key performance targets, but also
enabling it to make continuous improvements to take patient care to the
next level."
The Central and North West NHS London Foundation Trust operates from more
than 100 healthcare sites across nine boroughs in London.
About Information Builders
As a leading independent business intelligence (BI) company for the past 30
years, Information Builders has provided innovative solutions to more than
12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and numerous U.S.
federal government agencies. The company's flagship WebFOCUS product is the
world's most widely used BI platform. Superior architecture and intuitive
nature enables WebFOCUS to address the needs of everyone in the extended
global enterprise -- executive, analytical, operational, and beyond. It
provides the agility to adapt to changing business conditions with the
security, scalability, and flexibility to support dozens to millions of
users.
Unique to the company is the integration expertise it brings to the BI
market. Information Builders iWay Software suite solves complex integration
problems with pre-built components that require minimal custom programming.
The award-winning combination of WebFOCUS and iWay gives Information
Builders customers the ability to embrace the company motto: "Because
Everyone Makes Decisions."
Information Builders is committed to customer service excellence with a
Professional Services division that specializes in building custom
applications using WebFOCUS and iWay Software. Headquartered in New York
City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has
more than 350 business partners. Visit informationbuilders.com.