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Data Academy – development platform for enterprise-grade data management solutions

Data Academy (DA) is a low-code/no-code software development environment that utilises software automation techniques to develop enterprise-grade data management solutions. Supported by an architectural design methodology and a software engineering and management facility, Data Academy is used to build (bespoke or productised) highly configurable Microsoft SQL Server-based data management solutions more efficiently – up to 10 times more productively – than using conventional development methods.

DA is a data operating system (Data OSTM) that provides a collaborative environment for the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of innovative data management applications that are entirely independent of the software versions and environments on which they’re deployed.

Platform built with data independence and collaboration in mind

  • Leaders in automated healthcare solutions development
  • Bringing disparate data into a unified format
  • Data separate from applications layer for NHS Data Strategy compliance
  • Community, Mental Health, Maternity… eco-systems success
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Sophie, Senior Business Consultant

“Data Academy is quicker than writing solutions from scratch. If we didn’t have Data Academy our team would have to be at least double, and we would need more people across the technology spectrum... It is brilliant and the flexibility it affords is key to our success.”

Steve Chokr, CIO Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

Sophie, Senior Business Consultant

“Data Academy is quicker than writing solutions from scratch. If we didn’t have Data Academy our team would have to be at least double, and we would need more people across the technology spectrum... It is brilliant and the flexibility it affords is key to our success.”

Steve Chokr, CIO Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

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Leaders in automated healthcare solutions development

Utilising state of the art automation techniques, Insource are exponents of software engineering that creates reliable and robust software solutions. Data Academy automates and standardises the developer processes, increases efficiency, reduces risk and dependency on individual developers. Trusts can now have ownership of their own development process, ensure a development consistency and rigour that creates solutions usable across the enterprise.

Bringing disparate data into a unified format

DA uses automated technologies and standardised architectures to bring together disparate data from across the enterprise under a common standard that allows NHS departments, organisations, trusts, Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and even non-healthcare-based organisations to share unified, standardised data and collaborate more effectively.

Data separate from applications layer for NHS Data Strategy compliance

Data Academy incorporates a design architecture (Data Space Frame – DSFTM) that delivers data and solutions that are independent of the source systems feeding them. This not only gives Trusts confidence in their compliance to the NHS Data Strategy, but also ensures that if core systems change, they will still have access to their data.

Community, Mental Health, Maternity eco-systems success

Specialist providers such as Community, Mental Health or Maternity hospitals often have differing eco-systems to standard acute trusts. Their range of locations and specialty services often demand tailored solutions to fit their needs. At Insource, we have had significant success in providing these trusts with the foundational technology and know-how to help them to develop solutions for use across their whole eco-system.

Data separate from applications layer for NHS Data Strategy compliance

Data Academy incorporates a design architecture (Data Space Frame – DSFTM) that delivers data and solutions that are independent of the source systems feeding them. This not only gives Trusts confidence in their compliance to the NHS Data Strategy, but also ensures that if core systems change, they will still have access to their data.

Community, Mental Health, Maternity eco-systems success

Specialist providers such as Community, Mental Health or Maternity hospitals often have differing eco-systems to standard acute trusts. Their range of locations and specialty services often demand tailored solutions to fit their needs. At Insource, we have had significant success in providing these trusts with the foundational technology and know-how to help them to develop solutions for use across their whole eco-system.

Unique data management technologies

Our full technology suite has been developed to meet the needs of a data-driven healthcare system. It ensures data unification, standardisation, and accessibility – despite the underlying systems infrastructure – so frontline staff can get access to the accurate data they need.

Data Academy provides the core data foundation on which our full solutions suite has been developed and Health Data Enterprise (HDE) shows the extent to which the platform can be expanded to meet emergent data management needs of today’s NHS both locally and nationally.

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