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NHS Secondary Uses Service: Using the power...
NHS Secondary Uses Service: Using the power of information to improve healthcare
Challenge
The NHS recognised that the clinical information stored in its Spine database may also be of value for other purposes
Solution
Developed by BT the NHS Secondary Uses Service application contains 67Tb of data, and can support over 9,000 concurrent users
Value
The SUS enables healthcare providers to make effective and informed decisions based on solid verifiable data and analysis
Challenge
The NHS Spine is at the core of the NHS vision for more efficient, patient-centric services. It stores secure electronic demographic and clinical information essential to patients’ treatment, and routes information to authorised users and healthcare systems.
The primary purpose of information collected during treatment is to support and improve individual patient care. However, it may also be of value in other ways. The challenge is to make best use of the data captured, analyse it, harness it, and effectively apply the output. As an adjunct to the NHS Spine, the NHS Secondary Uses Service (SUS) application was designed for just such a purpose.
The SUS is designed to provide patient-based information for management and clinical purposes other than direct patient care. It is a single, comprehensive repository for healthcare data, which enables a range of reporting and analyses to support the NHS in service delivery.
Now mandated as the standard repository for performance monitoring, reconciliation, and payment1, the SUS provides a single secure data environment for the NHS to better plan, analyse, and optimise its services.
1The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2011/12, Department of Health, 15 December 2010Related industry
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