Bolton, UK — July 11th, 2011 — Today, Ascribe announced it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Public Sector – Health Partner of the Year Award.

“Ascribe is delighted to be recognised for our continuing partnerships with NHS organisations that use our products and services to help them improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of services they provide to the public,” said Stephen Critchlow, CEO of Ascribe Ltd. “Our commitment to supplying healthcare-focused Business Intelligence (“BI”) systems, such as the BI & Data Warehouse project delivered to Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust to improve and develop clinical and managerial services,  is enabling healthcare organisations to establish a foundation for improving their operating efficiency and delivering more informed clinical care. We are especially pleased that a large part of this award recognises our newly acquired business intelligence capabilities from 21c, who were finalists in this competition last year and are constantly recognised for innovation in their field. We look forward to providing Business Intelligence solutions to more healthcare organisations, enabling them to grow their service delivery and improve patient care.”


Ascribe logoAwards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 3,000 entrants worldwide. The Public Sector - Health Partner of the Year Award honors partners who have exhibited excellence in providing innovative and unique services or solutions based on Microsoft technologies to health customers. This award recognizes Ascribe for demonstrating industry knowledge and expertise, as well as consistent, high-quality, predictable service or solutions to health customers. This partner also has shown business leadership and success through strong growth in new customer additions and revenue.

“We are proud to recognize this outstanding group from our highly valued worldwide partner network as our 2011 Partner Award finalists,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “We applaud the unique perspective and creativity each of these companies brings to solving customer business and technology challenges. Our strong partnership along with their commitment to customers plays an essential role in our mutual, long-term success.”

Informing healthcare decisions using appropriate information, and improving health outcomes through the use of informed clinical intelligence have always been at the heart of Ascribe's vision and mission. Ascribe Consulting has established itself as a trusted partner in over 70 NHS Trusts and provides a wide range of health and social care organisations with access to performance KPIs, operational or clinical dashboards or direct access to data using analytical tools. Ascribe Consulting create NHS Business Intelligence Portals using the Microsoft® Business Intelligence (BI) software stack, best practice data warehouse design methodologies and most importantly an extensive health sector experience.

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.

Over 75% of NHS Acute Trusts use Ascribe systems and our commitment to improving healthcare IT has made us a strategic partner for a growing number of Trusts. Ascribe's clinical systems are robust and scalable, from departmental systems through to strategic enterprise-scale solutions. The company is a Microsoft Gold Partner. In addition developing its own solutions, Ascribe provides professional consultancy personnel for Ascribe, Microsoft and other healthcare IT systems.

From Electronic Prescribing through to Paperless Clinical Management and even Pharmacy robotic interfaces, Ascribe's breadth of integrated systems has been proven to help Trusts improve their efficiency and cut costs.

Ascribe employs 300 personnel through its operating companies in the UK, Kenya, Australia and New Zealand. For more information, please visit http://www.ascribe.com/