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Business Intelligence, OBIEE+, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Robert Angel, Assistant Director of Finance: Systems Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust . Introducing => Leeds Teaching Hospitals. St James University Hospital – largest Teaching Hospital in Europe Leeds General Infirmary
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Business Intelligence, OBIEE+, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Robert Angel, Assistant Director of Finance: Systems Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Introducing => Leeds Teaching Hospitals • St James University Hospital – largest Teaching Hospital in Europe • Leeds General Infirmary • Seacroft • Chapel Allerton • Wharfedale
Leeds Teaching Hospitals • One of the Largest Trusts in the UK • Provides Acute hospital services for the population of Leeds • Regional centre for a number of specialist services such as cancer and cardiac surgery • In total the Trust employs over 14,000 staff across eight sites, treating around a million patients a year with an annual budget of £800 million.
Introducing =>Robert Angel • Finance / IT Professional • Specialist in enterprise scale Finance Projects • The technical brain behind the multi-award winning e-business projects of Finance & Supplies in Leeds • Champion of the best in Information Technology, processes and standards to ensure economy, efficiency and effectiveness
A sample of Leeds Projects • Extending Oracle e-Business Suite via non-intrusive customisation; forms, reports, workflow • E-procurement • E-invoicing • RFID in Loan Kits • GS1 Standards • Catalogue repository • Heading the national e-enablement group
Challenges for the NHS • GP Commissioning procuring Healthcare services through ~500 GP consortia • Health service having to make savings of £20bn over the next four years
What this means for Leeds • To Achieve our corporate goals – • To be the hospital of choice for patients and staff • To be a consistently high performing and influential healthcare provider • To achieve the best possible clinical outcomes for every patient, every time • To achieve academic excellence and expand the boundaries of healthcare • Become a Lean Organisation • Become a Foundation Trust • Find £20m savings over 4 years
To Summarise • Our goals are tough • Our challenges are many • Our resources are reduced • Our commercial landscape is in flux
So why did we invest in Business Intelligence now>?! • In tough economic times with high resource restrictions in is difficult to focus on implementing business intelligence systems. • In reality there is no better time… true reform means not only righting our economic ship but also pursuing the strategies which will ensure our success into the future • The organisation that is circling a reactive loop never invests in the future and only make its situation less tenable
Would you buy this car to go to a foreign country? • No sat nav? • No fuel gauge? • No speedo? • No thanks….
OBIEE Provides • The opportunity to provide managers with intuitive dashboards to drive the business – focusing on what matters • The means to provide cross-database analyses • Without the need for manual data extraction or collation
Does this sound familiar? • Disconnected IT systems • Loads of data going into systems but very little information coming out • An army of spreadsheets and people working on them containing data which you do not trust and cannot collate without time consuming consolidation exercises • A small handful of IT specialists funnelling a large demand for specialist reports
The answer? • One system gateway to the information from ALL of your clinical and finance systems, enabling cross system analysis • OBIEE Repository
The answer? • One system where report writing is drag and drop - simple, intuitive and fast • OBIEE Answers
The answer? • One system that enables intuitive analysis via powerful drill functionality and a vast variety of intuitive report layouts • Answers / Dashboard
The answer? • One system that integrates into Office Suite and has a variety of automated delivery features • Oracle BI for Microsoft Office
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition + • Hate the name, love the solution!
Why OBIEE? • Access any data source – allowing cross database analysis • Flexible, powerful, rapid and easy to use • A pure web solution with no desktop maintenance • Powerful drill / navigation abilities • Portal based – simple web development • A solution the end user could produce their own results with, without extensive training • A solution fully scaleable to any size of business • Fast results
Thanks to Connecting for Health • We were able to call off licenses and prove that the solution worked for us • Over six months on a test server we trialled the functionality • When I had proved to the Business that this was the solution for the Trust then we started an implementation project • OBIEE sold itself to our end user community
Investment Payback • Cost of the total investment will payback in the first year of use • Manual collation and distribution of reports • Release of Management Accounts time • Release of clinical time • Superior Management Information • Timely
Our Resources for this project • 1 DBA’s time to configure servers • Myself – as OBIEE developer • Servers and disk space – costing less than £50,000 • Time with key stakeholders to ascertain business needs
So what have we done with it now? • ERIS Solution – A complete suite of Financial Reports • A single solution serving 750 end users with cost centre / parent securitised reports • Traditional Budget Report and Nominal Roll Details • Extensive new functionality • Exception Reports • Gauges with drill functionality • High level summary down to sub-ledger data
And are the users happy? David Fox – Directorate Manager Oncology and Physics “The new system is friendly and easy to use. I can easily see access and extract information….. BUT - ”
“This has meant that I am finding more things I would like it to do with it…..” With an earlier system users were reluctant to use it due to speed and complexity – This is the crucial difference that OBIEE has made. Budgetary analysis has been made fast and easy and the tool is addictive… It is a pleasure to find out that your users are asking for more!
What else have we done with it? • Peer to peer benchmarking analysis • Prompt payment code statistics • Debtor / Cash cycle monitoring • Cashflow • Balance Sheet • Revenue • Emulate any budget holders ‘Eris’ experience to stand in their shoes…
What next? • Organisation wide KPIs • Clinical • Financial • HR • Monitor reports for FT • More focus on income • Inventory line analysis • Cost per case reports – activity based reports