NHS Trust Set to Meet Challenges of Achieving Foundation Trust Status with Unbreakable IT Platform

The South coast based NHS Trust provides general, specialist, and tertiary medical care to more than half a million patients each year from its two main hospitals and other centers.

Challenges
Leverage technology advances to build a scalable, resilient, flexible, secure IT environment with near-100% uptime
Gain timely, usable financial data to support decision makers and ensure the highest standards of governance and compliance

Improve staff productivity by cutting process cycles while minimizing training for 2,000 users of varying competencies

Ensure that the Trust has the technology and processes in place to underpin its goal of achieving Foundation Trust status by 2012

Solution
Commissioned Oracle Certified Application Partner Patech Solutions to migrate existing Oracle E-Business Suite applications from Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platform

Increased system availability from 70% to 100%, reduced operating overhead, raised user confidence, boosted security, and created an unbreakable IT infrastructure fully supported by Oracle 

Chose Patech for its proven track record in implementing Oracle E-Business Suite in NHS organizations, understanding of the Trust’s  requirements, expert proactive consultants, and competitive price

Benefited from improved graphical interface and simplified display in Oracle iProcurement 11.5.10 to cut purchasing process from four steps to two for 1,000 users and streamline invoicing and receipting

Capitalized on web based reporting of data generated by Financial Statement Generator in Oracle Financials 11.5.10 to improve real-time sharing of budgetary and forecasting data across the Trust

Leveraged enhanced daily business intelligence dashboards in 11.5.10 to deliver regular updates on performance against financial and purchasing targets to decision-makers at the desktop

Benefited from Patech’s managed service, tailored to each client’s needs, to gain functional, technical and DBA support as needed and leverage highest value at least cost from the Trust’s technology investment