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A significant component of our operation is bespoke application design. The majority of our systems are concerned with workforce monitoring and healthcare fields. However we have also been involved with more diverse industries where our scientific strengths have brought great benefits to our customers.
 
The following information briefly illustrates particular systems we have developed and supported:
 
TAB4 Cohort Epidemiology Package
Customers: British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL), Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ)
Technologies: FORTRAN, C
Overview: An advanced cohort analysis package used to undertake workforce Epidemiology programmes. It has been used successfully toward both commercially funded studies and academically published papers.
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Occupational Health Systems
Customers: British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) - Chapelcross, Sellafield, Risley, Springfields & Capenhurst
Technologies: Digital Standard Mumps (DSM) & Micronetics Standard Mumps (MSM), Visual Basic
Overview: Support and development of bespoke Occupational Health system installed at our customer’s sites across the UK. Covering many aspects of the day to day administration of Occupational Health services, the package plays a key role in achieving compliance of legal requirements to monitor & manage employee health in the workplace. Recent developments include an in house developed package (written in visual basic) to provide graphical interface for the control of patient encounters to surgery services. This application integrates fully to the central occupational health system.
 
 
Sickness Absence Management Information Services (icaseone)
Customers: Undisclosed
Technologies: Cache, SQL, Java, Javascript, Stronghold
Overview: This is an entirely web orientated facility, allowing a company to manage its sickness absence at both individual and corporate level. The system features detailed reporting on key performance indicators and policy auditing, including breakdowns of industrial accidents, trigger levels and Bradford Scores. The system fully incorporates both the ICD10 (International Classification of Diseases - 10th revision) and SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) coding standards, and offers complete case management, from the notification of absence, to the return to work interview. The system has been proven to help business considerably reduce absence due to sickness, and the significant cost associated with it.
 
 
Cancer, Mortality, Tracing
Customers: British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL)
Technologies: MUMPS based system on a VMS platform
Overview: Tracing of individuals is conducted by WSC in conjunction with the Office of National of National Statistics (ONS). The purpose is to ascertain what medical incidents, if any, an individual BNFL worker has undergone during their time with BNFL, and after they leave. Information from various medical agencies is feed into the main CHRIS database system at southport. ONS use this information to inform WSC of any medical incidents which are upload into the Tracing system. If WSC have been informed of a death, this must be entered into the mortality system, likewise, for incidents of cancer, this will also be entered into the cancer system. The information from the Cancer, Mortality and the Tracing system is processed by the WSC epidemiology systems and analysed by the WSC Statistical dept.
 
 
Safety Monitoring Systems
Customers: British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) - Sellafield
Technologies: Digital Standard Mumps (DSM), Datatree Standard Mumps (DTM)
Overview: Support and development of safety critical monitoring systems used to collect environmental information, which is subsequently used to assess risks to employee health.
 
 
Customer Relationship Management System
Customers: Scottish Widows
Technologies: SAS, Visual Basic
Overview: A tailored Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution for a large financial organisation offering a user friendly interface with a strong statistical engine. Implemented using Visual Basic and SAS. A particular advantage for this solution included the ability to run the computing intensive application on the local machine for convenience or on a high powered mainframe to speed operation.
 
 
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