Airslie Ltd received this review of the Renalware 2.0 system after three months of use at Barts and the Royal London hospital network, written by Dr Stan Fan, who was one of the leaders of the data migration and staff training during the launch. (Dr Fan was also instrumental in installing the previous, Filemaker™-based version of Renalware at Barts in 2000.)

It has been a pleasure working with Airlsie Ltd to introduce Renalware 2.0 to Barts Health NHS Trust. This has been the culmination of many years of hard work and collaboration. We have been extremely pleased with the final product which has introduced efficiencies beyond our expectation.

Working on migrating data into Renalware 2.0 was easier than initially feared. We had excellent support from Airslie Team. Our migration team had no previous experience working with Postgres so the help provided by Airslie was all the more remarkable.

Renalware 2.0 has been running at Kings but it required extensive customisation prior to launch. We thank Airslie who completed this work quickly and efficiently. We were impressed with the flexible structure of the database allowing us to easily and quickly map 15 years of historical data fields.

Asking clinicians to change database after 15 years was a daunting prospect. We reduced clinical activity for the launch day. But the transition was much smoother than expected. Theo was employed to “walk the wards” trouble shooting but had little to do after the first 2 days. Our dedicated “Renalware Helpline” was barely used. This is a testament of the intuitive “look and feel” of Renalware 2.0.

Renalware 2.0 has been running for over 3 months. It has been a great success. It is fast and efficient. No longer have to wait 15minutes to load the old database. No longer have to interrupt consultations waiting for “Egg timer”! Customisation has allowed us to capture data more accurately. Querying data and generating reports to help patient care is much easier (improved data quality has really helped!).

Best of all is how Renalware 2.0 has influenced our behaviour to improve patient care. Personalised “home page” highlights draft letters that need to be reviewed, messages from other users and alerts. Number of draft letters that wait for more than 14 days to be reviewed has plummeted by more than 90%!

What a difference to old system! Starts up quickly and no more egg-timer!

Airslie is of course grateful to Dr Fan and the entire Barts team for carrying out such a relatively smooth launch of Renalware 2.0 and we continue to work with his Barts colleagues to add new features and otherwise enhance the system.