The vision thing: Lincolnshire looks to the future with Business Intelligence

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust called in Microsoft when it wanted to transform its use of information. Now, it is deploying some of the company’s newest Business Intelligence tools to deliver information to front-line staff in ways that make sense to them. Daloni Carlisle reports.

In the summer of 2007, the senior management team at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was inching its way towards a big decision about its information systems.

The mental health trust, which provides services across the county, was experiencing the information challenges that many trusts are facing: it needed to monitor performance and produce reports but had capacity constraints and was trying to extract and analyse data from multiple systems.