Patient Pathways: webcast

The Department of Health in England has set the goal that by December 2008 no patient referred by a GP will have to wait longer than 18 weeks for hospital treatment. Ahead of that target, by March 2008, 85% of inpatient pathways and 90% of outpatient pathways must also be treated within 18 weeks of referral.

This means that by March 2008 at the latest all hospitals within the English NHS will have to have in place systems to monitor patients’ progress along referral-to-treatment (RTT) pathways to ensure that they do not breach the eighteen-week limit.

To assist healthcare providers and commissioners Ardentia, with the backing and support of Microsoft, has launched its Pathway Manager system specifically designed to focus on patient pathways and to support the crucial need to monitor RTT waits. To date it has been purchased by seven providers and one commissioner and is already successfully implemented at two pilot sites.

Pathway Manager is a web-based solution designed to meet all local and national reporting and analytical requirements and is for use by managers, clinicians and information analysts alike. It goes beyond the mere generation of statutory reporting requirements and PTLs and has been designed to address issues such as:

• Who is on a RTT pathway?
• Where have they been?
• Where are they now?
• Where are they going?
• How long have they been on it?
• What is their risk of breaching?
• When will they breach?

Pathway Manager will work with or without the presence of pathway IDs; in their absence using intelligent matching to link events along a pathway. This means that it will work ahead of the deployment of the new CDS schema 6 and can capture and utilise its own RTT Status codes.

Ardentia's Pathway Manager system

Recording Details:

Subject: 18 Week Solution - Ardentia
Recording URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view  
Recording ID: M3SJ7B
Attendee Key: NHS