EKIALIS Explore vs. Ideagen Healthcare Guardian

Ideagen Healthcare Guardian is very well suited to incident and risk management across the healthcare sector. It is an ideal system for organisations that need a centralised platform to log, track and analyse data. It directly supports compliance and meets NHS governance frameworks and CQC standards. It is also suitable for performance and KPI monitoring, since the powerful data triangulation features allow real-time reports and dashboards to be created which allows clear oversight and monitoring. However, it is likely that these features might be less appropriate for smaller organisations with minimal governance needs. While anyone could potentially use the product, it is likely that only larger ones with more data will make use of the richer features.

• Triangulation of data
• Highly customisable
• Flexible and adaptable
• User friendly

• More technical resources
• Quicker response to some support tickets
• Improved actions management
• More charting options for some data visualisation types

It is intuitive and aesthetically pleasing. It is customisable based on the needs for the business. You can customise reports to contain only what information is needed.

Ideagen Healthcare Guardian stood out as a powerful and comprehensive, but highly customisable system. It offers a remarkable level of flexibility and adaptability to easily fit a diverse range of organisational needs, and this was one of the key reasons why it was selected. This means that should a particular function not be available ‘out of the box’, it can often be built, further expanding its abilities. Along with this, the aforementioned, clean and visually appealing user interface meant that many end users found it easier and preferable to use.

• It is easier to see information on numbers of one page
• It breaks down information in to different timescales: Daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly which is really helpful and is a massive saving on time spent pulling information for reporting purposes
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