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The Trends Driving Data Analysis

Our aim at Qlik isn’t remote or technical, it’s about people and how they use information; our goal is “simplifying decisions for everyone, everywhere”. The NIHR Clinical Research Network began using our QlikView Business Intelligence (BI) software in 2012 in order to do just that – to help people make better informed, collaborative decisions about… Read More

Clean UI and configured by anyone…

Currently a large part of my team seems to live for delivering demonstrations of our new system, it is set to go live in the next few weeks and the team are out and about building an understanding across the organisation of what it will replace, what it will deliver, and how it will be… Read More

Reacting to the challenges of data analytics in research

Every modern healthcare system professes to use and need data analytics to provide care for patients. The acceptance and use of data and tools to support this is different dependent on geography and culture. Conversations with healthcare providers in Russia, Europe and the US in recent months have enabled a magnifying glass to be applied… Read More

One week after deadline day…

The 1st of April meant so much to our organisation this year! A complete change in how we manage the delivery of clinical research in the NHS goes ‘live’. No fuss, no trumpets, it simply comes into being: a change from over 100 contracts across the NHS to just 15, a change that sees a… Read More

What is in a name?

When I was a young chap I wanted to be called Troy? What a strange name to pull out of the hat at the age of nine! However it was entirely based on one of the lead characters from Stingray, and I was easily influenced! Some names we are given and some names we choose,… Read More

Rosetta reborn

If a sleeping space traveller can awake after so long asleep and immediately spring to life all systems go then what lessons can we apply from that to the implementation and reconfiguration of information systems across the clinical research network? You know the feeling before you go on holiday, early flight to Ibiza is booked,… Read More

USP, a Big Issue…

What is your Unique Selling Point (USP), even the Big Issue seller I pass on a regular basis now has a USP. Today he was playing a flute and shouting the catch phrase at the same time! Whilst it was a strange sight to behold it certainly grabbed my attention and I would imagine his… Read More

Expectations and predictions…

I look forward to the list of expectatons and predictions for 2014 coming out in the different press outlets, what books, films and music will we all fall for in 2014. But even more importantly for us as we move to 2014 is to do a little horizon scanning of what ‘elements’ will impact on… Read More

The year that was…

Reviewing the year, something we should all do to reflect on the success and ensure that lessons are learnt from the elements that could be done differently. It has been a really busy year; a year that we had been promising the team will enable us to be more considered and reflective in the future,… Read More

In the words of Paul Daniels, ‘Ta Da!”

Today is launch day, a big day that has been coming for more than twelve months, today will see the finished product, the Central Portfolio Management System (CPMS) demonstrated to the most senior team of our organisation. Eighteen months ago I inherited the procurement of CPMS as a large programme into my directorate, the delivery… Read More

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