Microsoft at EHI Live – Partner focus: Cloud2
Next week Microsoft in Health will be exhibiting at EHI Live, where we will be joined by a number of our partners who offer a range of innovative solutions and services. One such partner is Cloud2, whose aim is to help healthcare organisations achieve their strategic objectives through innovative digital transformation solutions built on proven Microsoft accelerators.
Ahead of next week’s exhibition we are pleased to share a post from Cloud2 that explores its role in the ongoing digital transformation at Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Cloud2 was founded in 2008 by Taran Sohal and Simon Hudson, with a purpose to support the development of SharePoint projects in the health sector. This first took the form of a zero-code pre-built intranet accelerator, Hadron, the success of which led to multiple healthcare accelerators, for business process and workflow, advanced analytics and business intelligence. With NHS Trusts increasingly moving from on-premise deployments to cloud services such as Azure and Office 365, Cloud2’s zero-code approach makes their solutions compatible from the outset.
Since then, Cloud2’s aim has broadened to help healthcare organisations achieve their strategic objectives through innovative digital transformation solutions built on a range of proven Microsoft accelerators.
This approach can be seen in action at Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
As one of the largest Acute hospital trusts in the North West, with a budget over of £400m and 6,000 staff, RLBUHT provides services to almost one million patients each year. At the centre of the vision for the Trust is the ‘New Royal’ – a £335m digital hospital due to open in 2017. At the same time, the Carter Report and recent Wachter Review have highlighted areas to focus on to help the trust meet their cost reduction plan of £25m this year.
RLBUHT’s Operational managers needed a central dashboard where they could see the latest performance using key operational KPI’s for A&E, RTT, Bed Occupancy, Cancer Wait Times and more, with the ability to drill down for more granular information where needed.
Coeus is built on Meson – Cloud2’s business intelligence portal. Cloud2 provided their existing A&E optimised data model which was connected to RLBUHT’s A&E data. The Operations team used to have a weekly meeting with a pile of papers to go through, now they use the live Coeus BI Portal.
“Coeus went live to all 6,000 staff in 8 weeks from project initiation to go live, with the majority of our existing reporting migrated and this was one of the smoothest projects we’ve ever done”.
Paul Morris, Head of Business Intelligence
The success of Coeus has led to a proof of concept project to enable the trust to predict A&E demand. This has been based on leveraging the artificial intelligence capabilities of Azure machine learning to analyse 5 years of A&E data combined with weather data. 18 variables were identified as worth exploring for their impact on A&E attendances, of which 4 variables were confirmed as being statistically significant. The trust is exploring additional proof of concept predictive BI projects in partnership with Microsoft and Cloud2, taking advantage of the recent availability of Microsoft’s UK datacentres.
Further information and a video case study can be found with Cloud2.
To learn how Microsoft and Cloud2 can help you use artificial intelligence for predictive BI, as well as deliver digital transformation for back office, please visit the Microsoft stand (IB6O) and find Cloud2 in the Microsoft Partner Village (stand MV6) at EHI Live on November 1st-2nd.
If you are not going to EHI Live, there are further opportunities to meet with Microsoft and Cloud2 at the joint event ‘The art of the possible – the NHS perspective’, which is happening in London on November 9th, and in Manchester on December 7th.
For more information and to register, please visit Cloud2.
