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Explorer delivers self-service business intelligence by enabling you to query, explore and analyse data to optimise healthcare delivery.

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Empowering better patient outcomes through insights

Analysis of patient data offers huge potential for the NHS to best manage its resources as it tackles the long-term challenge of rising demand for healthcare services. By exploring real-world evidence from patient records, services can be tailored to support better health outcomes for the UK population. With Explorer’s powerful analytics, we’re making it easier to securely query, explore and analyse patient data efficiently, allowing you to yield more insights than ever before.

As ICS organisations seek to deliver coordinated, informed care, data-driven insights are an invaluable resource. Using Explorer, organisations such as Frimley Health and Care ICS are gaining a deeper understanding of the health needs of the communities they serve, enabling the transformation of service delivery.

Data you can trust, hosted safely and securely in the cloud

We’re experienced in handling large complex data sets within a highly regulated environment. Leveraging the power of AWS, designed to be the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today, we're ensuring you can be confident in our data security.

By connecting directly with data stored in our cloud environment, we’re eliminating the risks and associated costs of data duplication, removal and local storage. Data can only be accessed by authorised users using multi-factor authentication.

With analytics on demand, you’ll have the ability to query the data you are permitted to access, in an easy to use format, whenever you need it.

How does Explorer work?

Explorer is a query engine, connecting users directly to data held within EMIS-X.

Access Guard then automatically identifies and verifies the user and applies the relevant user and organisational sharing agreement rights. This ensures that only permitted data can be viewed in a format that is appropriate to that user.

Queries can be run manually by authenticated analysts, or programmatically via direct machine > machine connection (Java Database Connectivity / Open Database Connectivity).

Analysts will have the choice to query data at source, automate routine queries, connect their existing Business Intelligence tools or extract data into their own analytics environments.

By accessing data in its native format or in carefully crafted views, without the limitations of pre-built reports or fixed dashboards, we’re enabling a more flexible toolset for onward analysis and decision support.

EMIS-X

EMIS-X is a clinical platform that will enable an integrated healthcare ecosystem and revolutionise the UK’s health and care landscape.

Key benefits

  • Detailed data analysis at speed and scale
  • Efficient reporting, intelligence and population health insight
  • Access through a trusted, safe and secure cloud environment
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