Contents:

1. Introduction
2. What makes Ascribe unique?
3. Medicines Management, Integration and Core Technology
4. Business Strategy
5. Our Vision, Mission and Values
6. Operating Divisions
7. Our Customer Promise

Introduction:

Ascribe Ltd, is a leading supplier of clinically focussed IT solutions in Healthcare, with customers in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia & New Zealand.

As the market leaders in Clinical Information systems we have been able to build a robust product portfolio from a number of complementary acquisitions.

Our focus is on solutions that directly improve patient care by reducing risk and making relevant information available to clinicians at 'the point of care'.

The connection between improvements in healthcare IT and saving lives was highlighted in the Audit Commission's report, 'A Spoonful of Sugar', it has been consistently re-enforced by subsequent studies in the UK and around the world.  

Over 50% of the UK hospitals use our Pharmacy systems and we now offer solutions to over 25% of Mental Health, 30% of Accident and Emergency departments, retail pharmacies and GP’s. These solutions are installed internationally in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Ascribe plc was floated on AIM in 2004, and returned to private ownership in February 2009. Ascribe Ltd employs over 270 personnel in the UK, East Africa, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.

Our interoperable technology allows us to deliver the modern requirements of Healthcare IT systems without the need to replace the current third party systems. This allows us to deliver immediate benefit for our customers with tried and tested software.

A 2004 study issued by Liverpool University stated that UK citizens are more likely to die from a medical misadventure than from a road traffic accident. Ascribe intends to help remedy this situation dramatically and improve patient safety with its customers in the UK and internationally.

Collaborative Working
Collaboration allows healthcare teams across different domains t o share data and make informed decisions about patient care. Microsoft Sharepoint is an application that provides collaborative working solutions by storing and managing information that can be accessed easily and efficiently. Our expertise is in the implementation of Microsoft technology that focuses on the benefits it will bring to our healthcare clients. We have created solutions that provide a productive team environment enabling them to have insight into patient needs, work confidently across organisational boundaries, and make smarter decisions for improved patient safety and care.
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Deployment & Testing
Our proven methodology is used to plan, deploy and test the extensive range of healthcare systems available to hospitals.
We use a combination of clinical expertise, technical experience and ISEB certified test staff to provide a service for successful system go-lives that support new processes and working practices for clinical and non-clinical staff. As a full or partial service we provide test strategy advice, gap analysis, development of use case /workflow based test scripts, defect management, mapping and tracking evaluation and overall test execution and support. 
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Process & Performance Improvement
Our Lean methodology and tools help people to eliminate waste and maximise process flow through the health organisation. We have developed a proven modular approach to Process Improvement and Business Performance adopting Lean principles that delivers practical improvement solutions whatever the size and stage of an Improvement Programme. Our expertise is in helping people see and understand waste and then putting improvements into practice by developing future state models and embedding change. 
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• Electronic Patient Record "EPR"
  This division provides a range of comprehensive hospital administrative systems that monitor patients and medical resources. Patient administration information, including their care and medical records are comprehensively recorded and updated, this information is in turn capable of further integration with other hospital systems. Our EPR solution already includes tools for the collection of clinical data and integration with both speech and images. In addition, the EPR Division also provides solutions to track & monitor medical equipment and support requisite staff-training schedules and preventative maintenance to extend medical equipment ‘lifetimes’.
   
• Emergency Care
  Emergency Departments have to deal with constantly varying volumes of throughput with conditions that range from painful to life-threatening. Ascribe provides tested solutions, developed by clinicians that help to provide ‘at a glance' updates on the numbers and needs of patients, and monitor their progress from triage through treatment to discharge. Our Emergency Department solution enables clinicians to rapidly input patient data, search for past ‘episodes' and create paperless records to can be transferred quickly between trust sites, providing greater access to patient information and thereby reducing risk and improving patient safety.
   
• Enterprise
  Focusing upon multi-site and trust-wide implementations of IT systems, our Enterprise division currently focuses upon Electronic Prescribing (ePMA)solutions and Electronic Discharge (eDischarge) systems.
  
  ePMA
  The ability to electronically prescribe medication enables clinicians to draw upon decision support systems and avoid legibility issues that can all too often lead to medication errors. This electronic recording has been extended to include the actual administration of medications, providing a paperless system which can be used to monitor results, effectiveness and ultimately, reduce risk and thereby save patients' lives.
  
  eDischarge
  Our eDischarge system enables Trusts to ensure that as patients are discharged, that a communication is sent to their GP outlining the dates, diagnosis and treatment relating to their stay in the hospital.
   
• Mental Health & Community Care
  This Division provides care management solutions for all ages and abilities:
  
  Child Care
  Ascribe's Child Care systems can record new birth notification, pre-school surveillance, immunisation and vaccination and school health examinations. The design is underpinned by the Child Health Informatics Consortium's (CHIC) specification and has been designed to include additional functions such as ‘relational registration'. Referrals and contact with services can be automatically triggered as a result of an attended screening or examination. Consequently, children can be registered at birth, monitored through pre-school surveillance, Vaccination & Immunisation, and school health examination, whilst at the same time be seen by other care professionals in other settings, with access to record-resultant care against the same record.
  
  Domestic care
  Our Domiciliary Care solution is an easy to use system for the care and administration of patients who are based in their own homes; it provides a set of integrated tools to collect and report on client and service information and thereby create a comprehensive electronic clinical record. It can also be used to monitor invoicing and equipment management, and manage the allocation of staff and appointment schedules. The Ascribe system provides a consistent solution across broad geographic areas ensuring thoroughly documented and accessible best practice care.
  
  Care of the Elderly
  Ascribe's Care of the Elderly solutions conform to the Single Assessment Process (SAP), introduced in the National Service Framework for older people in January 2002, aims to make sure older people's care needs are assessed thoroughly and accurately, but without procedures being needlessly duplicated by different agencies. The purpose of SAP is to ensure that older people receive appropriate, effective and timely responses to their health and social care needs, and that professional resources are used effectively and without duplication.
  
  Mental Health
  Developing and administering a care programme for Mental Health Patients involves ensuring that a complete client history be made available to those agencies by facilitating a continuous feedback, monitoring, and communication process between members of the extended Mental Health Team (Acute / Intermediate and Primary care settings being covered). Ascribe provides solutions that support clear apportionment of responsibilities and high levels of clinical audit, reporting and information by maintaining a patient record which covers the service user involvement from first contact through the whole care management cycle to discharge and on into care in either an intermediate or primary care setting.
  
  Substance Misuse Service (SMS)
  Central Government has called for wider support of people suffering from the effects of substance misuse, Ascribe provides clinical support systems to those working within the substance misuse arena, our solutions also greatly assists in the generation of full data reporting for dissemination back to regional and national bodies (i.e. Regional Drug Alcohol teams, NHS National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse). Ascribe's solution also provides the capability to record service user data, manage comprehensive care planning schedules and features a carefully constructed prescribing functionality that combines with the other modules to provide a focused clinical management tool.
   
• Pharmacy
  Our Pharmacy Division offers a broad range of departmental and retail systems that have evolved to meet rising customer requirements:
  
  Departmental Systems
  From Dispensary and Stock management to comprehensive Patient Medication Records, Decision Support Systems and Robotic Interface systems, the Hospital Pharmacy Solutions developed by Ascribe best exemplify the division's ability to meet changing customer needs. Our version 9 Pharamcy systems enable closer integration between a hospital's pharmacy and systems outside the pharmacy.
  
  Retail Pharmacy and Electronic Prescription Transfers
  Ascribe provides a comprehensive Retail Pharmacy solution that encompasses Patient Medication Records, Electronic Point of Sales, Stock Management and Ordering. The company is working with the Government agency, Connecting for Health, to approve our implementation of Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions, part of the new Electronic Prescriptions Service
   
• Primary Care
  Focusing upon the management of General Practice surgeries
   
• Secondary Care Clinical Systems
  Based upon the portfolio of clinical systems created by Scorpio Computer Systems, this division supplies a range of systems including Scorpio Maternity and Scorpio Endoscopy. Our Endoscopy system has been designed by clinicians to support prompt & rapid generation of GRS (Global Rating Scale) and JAG audit information and is suitable for large or small sites.

Our Customer Promise:  

Our commitment and support does not stop when a product is purchased. When you buy a solution from Ascribe, we become your Partners, working together to ease any transition concerns and providing you with our experience to provide long-term help and support. You can be confident that Ascribe will 'be there for you', if you would like to speak to one of our customers for a testimonial, please call our pre-sales team and ask us or email salesoffice@ascribe.com