Alteryx helping to transform hospital data in Jersey
The revolutionary software behind Jersey’s new hospital waiting list web content
Alteryx has helped transform Jersey’s hospital data allowing the creation of a new website showing timely waiting lists for the first time.
The website, which draws recent data from across the hospital, allows people to see the number of referrals and median waiting times for new appointments across specialities.
Now two months since it’s launch which was reported on by Gary Burgess for ITV News, we are now beginning see more data in these pages.
Jersey’s Health Informatics Team began background work for the project nearly three years ago when they received their first Alteryx licence from Continuum, Alteryx’s Premier Partner in the Channel Islands.
Alteryx is a data analytics platform that allows organisations to automate and streamline the way they manage data without the need for code.
Assisted by Continuum, Health Informatics used the software to standardise data across the department making it easier to access, analyse, and interpret. Data can then be used within the health service by clinicians, management, or shared with the public, such as the regular updates on bed occupancy issued during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Sam Lempriere, Management Executive Support Lead, Government of Jersey, said:
“There is so much data across Health coming in different forms, from different sources, we needed a tool that could help us standardise it, and bring it together to make it accessible for everyone. Alteryx allowed us to automate the process, flagging up quality issues with the data so that we could build in fixes and make it useful to our decision makers.
"There was a huge amount of background work to the project involving many people across health and requiring a lot of data validation. The waiting list web content is one visible piece of the puzzle, but it is only a small part of the larger data picture. We are continuing to further automate and increase the frequency of our reporting cycles, helping make hospital data more meaningful and transparent than ever before.”
Continuum supplied Health Informatics with seven Alteryx Designer licences, enabling the small team to automate their processes and speed up their regular data analysis. This freed the team to work on new developments, which put the hospital in a strong position for understanding and managing its data ahead of the Covid-19 Pandemic. With the addition of an Alteryx Server licence at the beginning of the year, this enabled these reports to be ran on a scheduled basis as frequently as they like, with no user intervention.
Alteryx has already been used very successfully in other Government Departments, and in Financial Services, with Jersey businesses being early adopters of automated data analytics.
Dan Hare, Managing Director, Continuum, said:
“We are delighted to have been able to assist the Government of Jersey in this project to help transform data reporting for health services in the Island. By embedding Alteryx into its processes, Jersey’s Health Department can manage its data more efficiently and accurately, harnessing the power of the latest technology to progress its digital transformation. Our journey with Government began with helping Joanne Currie automate very manual tasks in the HR department, and it has developed from there. We’re delighted and proud to have been able to provide the support for Sam and his colleagues across our Government to use their talents and knowledge to generate the insights required to make the lives of all Islanders better.”
Continuum has worked with over 40 organisations in the Channel Islands, UK, and Europe installing data analytics platforms such as Alteryx and DataRobot, an Automated Machine Learning platform, training staff to use these platforms to improve everyday processes.