Qlik, has announced that Cwm Taf University Health Board will be deploying its Sense analytics platform in order to help improve patient care.
Initially the platform will be implemented in order to reduce both the length of patient stay and clinical waiting times. Both QlikView and Qlik Sense will be used to help guide analytics and self-service visualisation.
The platform will help the Health Board to improve services to the 289,400 people who live in the areas of Merthyr Tdfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf in Wales.
Lloyd Bishop, Head of Performance & Innovation at CWM Taf University Health Board, said:"Improving patient care is our number one priority and it is therefore critical that we invest in the right technologies to enable this."
"Qlik Sense will not only provide us with a holistic view of how we’re treating patients, but also allow us to interrogate this data to find what we can improve on to ultimately become more efficient."
"We’re also excited at the prospect of empowering our clinical team with Qlik Sense to help discover these efficiencies using the platform’s impressive visual capabilities. It’s great to have analysis software that truly anyone can use, not just a data analysis team."
"Qlik Sense has the capability to represent data in a visual format that clinicians can understand and rely on. For example, with a simple scatter graph, we were immediately able to identify where consultants were working with too many patients or taking too long to respond to patient needs."
"This ability to quickly spot peaks in admissions and re-assign resources accordingly will become invaluable in our driving efficiencies over the next 12 months."
Prior to using the Qlik platforms, the Health Board had been using between 40 and 50 different services which had lead to slow processes.
Sean Farrington, Qlik UK & Ireland MD and RVP Northern Europe, said: "The NHS, perhaps more than any other organisation, is under constant pressure to find ways to operate more efficiently while still reducing costs."
"One of the most effective ways to do this is for health boards such as Cwm Taf to empower their staff to do their jobs to the best of their ability – simply by making more effective use of a resource they already have – organisational data."
"We’re really pleased to see Qlik Sense used to help give them better insights into the ways they can not only reduce waiting times for patients, but ultimately, help to save lives."
