From Retrospective Reporting to Real-Time Insight
For over 25 years, Mela Solutions have supported teams across Intensive Care, Critical Care Outreach and ECMO with software that helps collect, validate and submit high-quality data to national registries. This data is essential for driving consistency and supporting ongoing quality improvement across the system.
But the challenge comes once that data leaves the hospital. National audit reports often reflect activity from several months to as much as a year earlier, and in critical care, where conditions, pressures and patient need change rapidly, this delay makes it difficult for teams to draw actionable insights or make timely decisions based on the most current information.
That’s where Medicus Analytics comes in.
The Challenge: Seeing the Present, Not Just the Past
Despite the volume and quality of data captured every day in critical care, it often arrives too late to influence decisions in the moment. Instead of understanding what’s happening right now, teams are left looking back at what happened months ago - which raises the question:
“How do we make today’s decisions with last quarter’s view?”
The Solution: Advanced Analytics for Medicus
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Medicus Analytics bridges the gap between data collection and action. Instead of waiting months for audit reports, teams can view their information as soon as it enters Medicus, whether through automated hospital feeds or manual entry.
Structured data is displayed on interactive dashboards, giving clinical and operational teams an immediate view of what’s happening across their service. Patient flow, quality measures and outcomes can all be monitored virtually in real time, turning routinely collected data into meaningful, day-to-day insight.
Exploring Data in Greater Depth
Medicus Analytics allows users to drill down into key metrics and explore their data in far greater detail, offering the flexibility to examine specific cohorts, time periods or performance measures with exceptional granularity. Dashboards are designed around the patient journey, providing a complete view from admission to discharge.
Key areas of focus include:
- National quality measures - Track high-level benchmark metrics, with access to more detailed dashboards displaying additional layers of specialised data and trends over time.
- Inflow - View admissions by diagnosis, demographics, referral source and deprivation decile to understand patterns of access and demand.
- In Unit - explore data on level of care, organ support, nursing ratios and interventions to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Outflow - analyse length of stay, step-down transfers, readmissions and mortalities to monitor outcomes and patient flow.
Underpinning these dashboards, the advanced Filters feature enables clinicians and managers to isolate patient groups in seconds, breaking down data by time frame, demographics, diagnosis or intervention type to compare outcomes and uncover trends.
Connecting the Network
Critical care doesn’t exist in isolation - and neither should its data. As teams began using Medicus Analytics locally to track and explore their own individual data, the next logical question was:
“How can we connect data across the network to improve visibility at a group level - without adding any extra workload or administrative burden?”
That question became the foundation for Medicus Network Analytics.
We set out to make it possible for teams to continue collecting routine data exactly as they do on a daily basis with Medicus, while developing a way for an automated, anonymised stream of data to flow securely from any participating trust into a central network location.
This development made it possible to create a single, secure dashboard that brings together a shared view of performance across an entire critical care network, accessible to network leads at any time - and yes, it’s fully compliant with information governance.
This connected approach then enabled networks to:
- Identify performance gaps and share best practice
- Compare activity and outcomes across sites
- Spot emerging issues earlier
- Drive collaborative quality improvement
- Build a shared understanding of success across the region
By transforming fragmented datasets into a unified view, Medicus Analytics helps networks learn faster, act sooner, and continuously improve the quality of care for critically ill patients.
Driving Collaboration Across the Country
Three critical care networks have already gone live with Medicus Network Analytics, with a further three preparing to launch by the end of the year. The initiative is being shared at regional events, where colleagues from Mela Solutions present updates, demonstrate the dashboards in action, and support teams in unlocking the full potential of their data.
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This isn’t data for its own sake; it’s knowledge that moves at the pace of care.
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