Transforming Healthcare: EPR Delivery Services
Aiming to implement an ICS and EPR to hit the March 2025 target? Aire Logic can help!
How can We help?
NHS England is aiming for all integrated care systems (ICSs) and NHS trusts to have core digital capabilities, including Electronic Patient Records (EPR), in place by March 2025. And with good reason, Implementing an effective EPR system can improve access to health and services, enhance quality and safety of care, and help the system become more efficient.
We have worked with Trusts and ICS for over 10 years specifically within the EPR programme cycle. On projects such as Leeds teaching Hospitals Trust on their PPM+ since 2013, The Christie as lead EHR Partner since 2019 and various elements of the Northern Care Alliance EPR since 2023. We have also delivered National Programmes such as Spine, Secondary Care Catalogue and Application Programme Interface Management.
From helping to build EPR from scratch to implementing successful EPR, we are often the complete EPR programme partner. Individual services range from writing your Outline Business Case and Output Specification to the Optimisation phase, we will work with you to create a tailored plan suited to your needs and budget.
All projects have different requirements and there are many different ways we can work with you:
- The skills gap - filling in the gaps and knowledge where it is difficult to recruit staff members and contractors
- Advice on your integration strategy
- Interface writing and testing
- Archiving old application systems
- Support in ensuring you are technically and operationally ready to go live
Our EPR implementation process
The Airelogic team have a genuine passion for digital and know the public sector well, drawing upon their industry experience. They maintain innovative practice and seek to add value wherever possible. They listen to the client and leadership through to individuals share a common ethos of doing good.
Roger Carter
CIO - NHS England
Benefits:
- Reduce your people risk in your EPR programme quickly
- Benefit from the knowledge of the Aire Logic team, and input from our sister company who are rapid deployment low code platform experts
- You have access to healthcare professionals with National and Trust level experience and expertise
- You can use us to fill the gaps in skill level and capability
- You can flex the team with no long term financial commitments
Who Does What - Enterprise Architecture
What we were asked to do
As part of the NHS’s Who Does What programme, whose aim is to assist NHS England (NHSE) and Integrated Care System (ICS) leaders maximise the benefits of their IT infrastructure, Aire Logic provided Enterprise Architecture expertise to support definition of the target nationwide federated architecture for NHSE.
The focus was the definition of the technical services that should be offered, locally, regionally and nationally and the creation of roadmaps for centrally managed technical services to transition to the target architecture and embed that knowledge within NHSE.
The approach we took
Aire Logic’s approach took into consideration existing documentation such as the Target Architecture 9.1 draft and the Data Saves Lives strategy which resulted in the creation of a process to validate and elaborate the existing strategy work.
Our experienced architects defined a process that understood the Vision, Mission, Objectives and Goals of the programme, and working with a blended team of NHS staff, defined personas and scenarios which were used as part of an iterative process focussing on prioritised objectives and goals to define the business and application architecture using Archimate in the Avolution Abacus tool.
As well as working through prioritised outcomes and goals the architecture definition was done iteratively to allow consistent production of models for consumption and discussion of artefacts.
Alongside Archimate we also used BPMN 2.0 to model scenario processes and system interactions that informed the business and application architecture models, as well as Unified Modeling Language (UML) Use Case diagrams to create logical groupings of Services and associated User Roles.
The production of this architecture model allowed for discussions around which application services are necessary at the centre of a federated architecture, the interactions between them and the impact on users and consumers. The target architecture was also mapped to existing applications to help understand opportunities for rationalisation and the impact of change.
These models were designed and documented, which resulted in a full iterative enterprise architecture process focused on testing in real world scenarios to help define a simplified target architecture. Models and ancillary documentation provided traceability from the requirements straight right through to the design of end user services.
To ensure effective handover Aire Logic created a comprehensive repository of documentation including architecture models as part of a collaborative effort between NHS and Aire Logic staff. To embed this fully, Aire Logic held multiple workshops with NHS England architecture colleagues to ensure that processes were followed and the correct modelling done. After the workshops, assistance was also provided for any questions or support needed after our exit.
Delivered change
- Vision, Mission, Objectives and Goals for the programme
- Architecture process for discovering the architecture of business and technical services
- User Personas for NHS business and technical services
- Intentionally complicated real world scenario definitions designed to test the architecture
- Populated architecture repository of scenario models with ancillary documentation (BPMN, UML)
- Populated architecture repository of technical service models with interactions
- Business case documents for new services including mapping to existing services
- Powerpoint presentations explaining the process and artefacts
