Data Warehousing at
Lancashire Care NHS Trust
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Tim Harvey – Head of Information
Helen Dean – Information Analyst
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The Trust
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Established 2002
Provides Mental Health and Substance Misuse
services across Lancashire
Provides Secure Mental Health services for
Lancashire & Cumbria
Over 3500 Staff
Over 120 Sites
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LCT Info Systems
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Pre-Connecting for Health
 Six
Legacy PAS Systems
 Hosted by Acute Trusts
 Reliant on Service Level Agreements
 No structure to Information provision
 No Data Integration
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NCRS Deployment
iPM implementation- April 2005
 Community rollout- April 2006
 Data Extracts received on a 24hr basis
 Initial Loads and Delta Loads
 No Extract Management solution provided
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Data Warehouse
In-house solution not feasible
 CfH solution not available at the time of
go-live
 Reviewed off the shelf products and…
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…Health Data Manager!
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Why Health Data Manager?
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Designed specifically for NHS and Data Extracts
Provide integration, storage, analysis and
presentation within one application
System C part of CSC Alliance
Keeps data under ‘local’ control
Ability to incorporate other system data
Ease of use
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How it works (1)
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How it works (2)
24 Hours
Stage 1 Job
Extract Files
CSV
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Stage 2 Job
Staging Tables
Oracle
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HDM Tables
Business Objects/
Web Intelligence
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LCT Current Reporting Configuration
LCT Basic Data Access Schematic for NCRS Extracts
Performance
Dashboard
Oracle ODBC Driver
iPM
Oracle SQL/OLEDB Driver
Oracle: HDMStore
E-CPA
Web site –
copy Oracle
tables to SQL
server
ASP.NET/
ADO.NET
Web site –
Show reports
– directly
querying the
databases,
using
ASP.NET/
ADO.NET
Stored procs
etc
MS Access–
ODBC linked
tables to
query the
databases
Web Info
Reports
Statutory
Returns
Native SQL Client driver
HDM Reports
SQL Server:
SQLHDMStore, Methincs
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Implementation Issues
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Data Extract Issues
 Versions
and Loads
 Completeness
 Timeliness/Validation checking/LSP
Relationship
Understanding Universes
 New application
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Future Developments
Community Activity
 Information Portal
 Feasibility of using full Business Objects
Application
 Migrate Warehouse from Oracle to SQL
 Expand usage of HDM
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Questions?
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