Power BI Enablement in the NHS
Many NHS organisations need to improve the speed, quality, volume and resource efficiency of their reporting which can be achieved by taking advantage of available technology. So, when implementing Power BI there is much to consider:
- Set up challenges including virtual infrastructure and dashboards
- Disparate and unconnected databases and data sources
- Security and accessibility to data
- Skills gaps within the developer, informatic and analyst’s teams
- Licencing approaches
Power BI Enablement
Many NHS organisations need to improve the speed, quality, volume and resource efficiency of their reporting which can be achieved by taking advantage of available technology. So, when implementing Power BI there is much to consider:
- Set up challenges including virtual infrastructure and dashboards
- Disparate and unconnected databases and data sources
- Security and accessibility to data
- Skills gaps within the developer, informatic and analyst’s teams
- Licencing approaches
Our approach
The Trustmarque Power BI Enablement service is designed for organisations and departments who want to use Power BI to create reporting dashboards or predict trends. Taking the first steps can be daunting but getting it right is essential. We will cover all the basics including: infrastructure readiness; set up; costs and budgeting; data security and user training to ensure the successful adoption of Power BI.
This service ensures a successful Power BI implementation by:
- Building an enterprise self-service analytics capability
- Training technical staff to build, interpret and deploy world class dashboards and reports
- Providing value from your existing data to the relevant people when they need it
Our extensive NHS transformation experience ensures your Power BI Enablement:
- Delivers the insight your services require to deliver safer and more effective care
- Uncovers previously hidden and actionable insights from your data
- Demonstrates what is possible when moving to predictive analytics (including machine learning) rather than just historical reporting
Introducing Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is an industry leading data analysis and visualisation tool. It extracts information from your data sources, such as SQL, spreadsheets, PDFs and text files and allows you to deliver AI, machine learning and big data insights. Power BI consists of a group of technologies that is a constantly expanding and connects traditional reporting and processes, and enterprise level Business Intelligence data analytics.
Power BI is the ideal tool for supercharging your self-service analytics. It puts deep insights into the hands of the staff whose everyday decisions contributes to the success of an organisation.
Example healthcare Power BI dashboards by Trustmarque
We have created series of example dashboards to illustrate the insights this powerful tool delivers:
Example 1:
Emergency department
A fictional department that uses realistic data with 14 example pages containing SPC, resources, etc. The actual deployed customer version uses near live data and contains 44 pages.
An alternative version containing frequent attenders and clinician measures:
Example 2:
Oncology service
An oncology service example using basic PAS data with financials to better understand operational activity and income.
Example 3:
Mental health safer staffing (GMMH)
Using Public data from the organisation’s website to help understand issues.
Why Trustmarque for Power BI?
We have over 10 years of NHS Data Analytics experience and we understand the processes that the data represents and the pressures that users face. We know what is important. We understand the processes that are needed to collect and collate NHS Data. We recognise the issues relating to storage, quality and security.
In this time, we have never found a data set that is not informative and can give great insight. It doesn’t always deliver the answers we were looking for, but typically the results are very useful and often surprising. We like to think that we can have an informed conversation with your data and discover what it really can tell you.
We bring dashboard templates for A&E, inpatients, outpatients, portering, community nursing, cancer, waiting times, HR processes and many other specific areas for the NHS. This means you can start with a working model closer to your final goal and working with people who really understand it.
