The new PAS system ensures all patient activity is accurately recorded including patients attending A&E, those admitted to hospital and patients being treated in outpatient clinics.
The new system has enabled the trust to embed new standards for how patient pathways are recorded across its eight hospital and community sites.
The project was also used by Northumbria Healthcare as an opportunity to introduce new trust-wide data standards, ensuring that all aspects of a patient’s activity are accurately coded.
These standards go beyond what is required nationally and play an essential role in ensuring appropriate patient care.
The implementation programme included extensive project, data migration and contingency planning and a training programme for more than 2,000 PAS users in the trust.
Mark Thomas, director of health informatics at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, said: "This was a great achievement and was only possible due to a lot of hard work and long hours put in by our staff - both in the development of the system and its implementation.
"The implementation involved a lot of planning and represented a significant change for many staff, especially those who have been using the old system since it was put in place.
"We pride ourselves on the quality of our data and have been recognised nationally for our work in this area.
"High quality data is an essential part of delivering high quality and safe patient care and we place great emphasis on making sure we capture robust data so that we can continuously review and improve our services for patients.
"I think we will very soon realise the benefits of the new system both for users and our patients."
Christine Whitehouse, managing director of Stalis, said: "We are extremely pleased that the trust chose Stalis to supply the new PAS including the data migration and reporting continuity.
"The key objectives of the project were to ensure the continuity of safe patient care and to ensure downstream clinical systems were supported by the new patient master index, minimising the risks to the trust's very diligent reporting. Stalis, its sub-contractors and the trust teams all worked together extremely well and effectively in a true spirit of co-operation to meet the objectives.
"We are now looking forward to working with the trust further to find benefits and take advantage of the new platform in support of the continuing strong and excellent record of patient care that Northumbria Healthcare delivers."
About Stalis
Operating exclusively within the UK and Irish healthcare markets, Stalis Limited was formed in 1984 with the sole aim of helping healthcare providers get better quality information from their operational systems. Stalis continues to provide a range of robust products and services in meeting the needs of the NHS and other healthcare providers for clinical and operational management information.
Over 70% of the Company's shares are held by Stalis's management team all of whom have dedicated their careers to the NHS or UK healthcare IT sectors.
Throughout its history, Stalis has worked in the field of healthcare data and information management, and fully understands the impact and issues around data quality, particularly with respect to information reporting and performance management. For this reason, the company has focused its attention on the provision of tools and services to support Trusts in information integration, data quality assessment, cleansing, migration and archiving to provide of a range of reporting and business intelligence solutions.