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COA Solutions Partners Ardentia for Patient-level Costing
16 September 2008 – UK business systems provider, COA Solutions, today announces a partnership with Ardentia, a supplier of business intelligence solutions to the healthcare sector. The partnership sees the integration of Ardentia’s patient level costing (PLC) system into COA Solutions’ patient resource management (PRM) and collaborative planning systems, providing managers, clinicians and theatre staff with sophisticated patient-level costing, payment by results (PbR) and planning functionality. This helps to meet Service Line Management needs.
The integration of PLC into COA Solutions’ PRM will ensure that more accurate and valuable information is available to users. Users will be able to drill down to a patient level and determine exactly where and how costs are being incurred.
The integration of PLC into COA Solutions’ Collaborative Planning budgeting and forecasting system, enables users to perform annual and strategic planning, supported by a detailed understanding of current costs and service delivery capacity.
Peter Leigh, Health Sector Manager from COA Solutions, says, “This partnership provides a complete Service Line Management solution, enabling NHS Trusts and other healthcare organisations to meet their service line profitability, patient level costing and service line planning requirements. Managers and clinical staff can now quickly and easily cost individual patient pathways and are provided with a detailed understanding of patient activity, costs, income and outcomes to help meet the requirements of the Darzi report.”
David Beeson, Director of Marketing and Product from Ardentia, says, “With cost analysis and reporting becoming increasingly crucial for NHS Trusts, this partnership is vital as it provides managers and clinicians with the necessary patient level data in high cost areas such as theatres and ICU. It also enables analysis of existing and expected patient-level expenditure meaning that any overspending can be quickly and easily recognised and tackled.”
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