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BCN Group Ltd

Dynamics 365 Business Central for Healthcare

Empower healthcare organisations with Dynamics 365 Business Central for seamless operations, from patient management to resource optimisation. across NHS Primary Care, Acute, Mental Health, Community Care, Integrated Care System, ICS, Integrated Care Board, ICB

Features

  • Comprehensive patient management
  • Financial management and reporting
  • Inventory and supply chain management
  • Streamlined procurement processes
  • Automated billing and invoicing
  • Customisable workflows for healthcare operations
  • Real-time analytics for informed decision-making
  • Scalable solution for growing healthcare facilities
  • Integration with existing healthcare systems
  • Secure access and data protection measures

Benefits

  • Enhanced patient care and experience
  • Efficient resource allocation and utilisation
  • Cost savings through streamlined processes
  • Compliance with healthcare regulations
  • Improved inventory management and stock control
  • Accelerated billing and payment cycles
  • Better insights for strategic planning
  • Seamless scalability to meet evolving needs
  • Interoperability with other healthcare systems
  • Robust security safeguards for patient data

Pricing

£1,000 a unit

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

3 2 8 2 8 8 3 9 8 9 4 7 8 7 3

Contact

BCN Group Ltd Mr Ric Kelly
Telephone: 0345 095 7000
Email: ric.kelly@bcn.co.uk

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
What software services is the service an extension to
Dynamics Business Central, D365 Business Central, NAV
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
No specific constraints depending on architect agreed with customer
System requirements
  • Business Central
  • Nav
  • Dynamics 365 Business Central

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Depending on Service Purchased Options: Standard Support Hours - Monday - Friday 08:00 - 18:00Hrs Extended Support Hours - Monday - Friday 07:00 - 19:00Hrs Out of Hours Support - P1 ONLY - 24/7 (Excluding Christmas Day) Priority 1: Standard / Extended Hours - Response Within 30 minutes Priority 1: (Out of Hours) Response Within 60 minutes Priority 2: Standard / Extended Hours – Response Within 2 hours Priority 3 or 4: Standard / Extended Hours – Response Within 4 hours Priority 5: Standard / Extended Hours – Response Within 4 hours
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
Availability of the D365 Platform is inherited via Microsoft

Support Hours 50+ dedicated support engineers across 3 UK offices provide technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. * This includes proactive monitoring and alerting of core services. *Waking Hours = 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday (from manned helpdesk) Ticket Severity All tickets logged to the Service Desk will be allocated a severity level based on the following methodology. This will ensure that reporting on service levels may be achieved to the optimum format. 1 - Catastrophic business disruption 2 - Severe business disruption or user critical issue 3 - Business disruption or multiple user issue 4 - Minor business disruption or user issue 5 - Job or Task Service Desk Staff will evaluate the Incident and allocate a priority level after which it will be assigned to the appropriate staff. This will be based on the required skill set to resolve the incident in a timely manner.

Other Infrastructure hosting is out of scope for this Service
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
For all Business Central Services BCN will engage with the customer to identify business requirements & the optimal solution required. BCN will guide the process from start to finish to ensure an optimal experience. BCN follow the below methodology for delivering projects: Define The first step is always information. We take the time to understand your business. Build We build on our research. Your solution is designed to leverage the insights we learn. Deliver We only ever deliver once we're completely happy and fully tested. Evolve Digital solutions don't stop, they evolve. Metrics & analytics keep pushing you forward.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • PDF
  • Other
Other documentation formats
Microsoft Word
End-of-contract data extraction
Continuity of service is important to us for our customers. All customer data is hosted in the customer's instance, tenant or environment, & therefore is fully owned by the customer. At the end of any contracted engagement the customer will control the data within their instance & BCN access will be removed as necessary. BCN can support extraction if required depending on the customer needs. This will be an additional engagement
End-of-contract process
At the end of any contracted engagement BCN will support handover of any solution to the customer. BCN will remove access to all systems as necessary & terminate any support for services.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
Standard Microsoft responsive design for BC
Service interface
No
User support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
API
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Customizations can be made within the boundaries of the Business Central Framework, depending on customer requirements.
For D365 BC, changes must be compatible with Microsoft requirements

Scaling

Independence of resources
Applications are hosted independently from other customers. In private cloud this will be the customer's infrastructure.

Dynamics 365 runs on Azure, so it's a multitenant service by nature. This means that multiple customers' deployments and virtual machines share the same physical hardware. Azure uses logical isolation to separate each customer's data from others. This gives you the scale and economic benefits of multitenant services while preventing customers from accessing one another's data.
More details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/guidance/implementation-guide/security-strategy-security-controls

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Solution Dependent
Reporting types
Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Microsoft

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Managed by a third party
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
‘IT Health Check’ performed by a Tigerscheme qualified provider or a CREST-approved service provider
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
  • Encryption of all physical media
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Data is kept in standard data formats and can be extracted at any time by the customer using standard Microsoft or other products.
Data export formats
Other
Other data export formats
Solution Dependent
Data import formats
Other
Other data import formats
Solution Dependent

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Data protection within supplier network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
Microsoft or the customer are responsible for infrastructure availability. Dynamics 365's availability SLA is 99.9%. More details on Microsoft SLAs can be found here: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwwlpdocumentsearch.blob.core.windows.net%2Fprodv2%2FOnlineSvcsConsolidatedSLA(WW)(English)(April2024)(CR).docx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK

Other deployments of Business Central / NAV are subject to the SLAs related to the infrastructure they are running on.
Approach to resilience
Dynamics 365 runs on Azure.
Azure includes built-in reliability services that you can use and manage based on business needs. Whether it’s a single hardware node failure, a rack level failure, a datacenter outage, or a large-scale regional outage, Azure provides solutions that improve reliability. For example, availability sets ensure that the virtual machines deployed on Azure are distributed across multiple isolated hardware nodes in a cluster. Availability zones protect customers’ applications and data from datacenter failures across multiple physical locations within a region. Regions and availability zones are central to your application design and resiliency strategy and are discussed in greater detail later in this article.
BCN's solutions are designed to the resiliency requirements of the client
Outage reporting
Public dashboards and email alerts.

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
For Dynamics 365: Entra ID provides RBAC controls into customer Azure environments to restrict access to named resources.
Following a least-privilege principle, access is controlled via the Entra ID of the customer & other network restrictions based on the solution. In-app permission models vary based on the solution.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least once a year
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months
How long system logs are stored for
User-defined

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
SGS
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
25/06/2020
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
BCN Group activities related to the provision of this service are covered by ISO 27001
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security policies and processes
Organisation chart available on request. Upon induction, staff handbook, policies and procedures are provided. Specific IG policies around Information Security which are also in the staff handbook are included. We are also fully compliant with GDPR guidelines. Ongoing documented review to ensure policies are being followed as well as one-to-one systems to enforce policy processes.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Change requests are raised by the customer or on their behalf by our support team. These are submitted to the change team for review and what-if analysis, the results of which are communicated back to the change owner for review of potential impacts and technical feedback before authorising and scheduling in the work. Upon completion and validation that the change has been successful, relevant documentation and parties are updated accordingly. The Change Advisory Board meet regularly to assess the whole change life-cycle to ensure that safeguards and security remain at the forefront of any changes made.
Vulnerability management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Vulnerability management approach
Production assets are scheduled for daily, automatic scans with the most recent vulnerability signatures. The results of these scans are collected in a secure, central storage service, and automated reporting makes results available to service teams. Service teams review scan results that report aggregate scan results to provide comprehensive reporting and trend analysis. When vulnerability scans indicate missing patches, security misconfigurations, or other vulnerabilities in the environment, service teams use these reports to target the affected components for remediation. Vulnerabilities discovered through scanning are prioritized for remediation based on their (CVSS) scores and other relevant risk factors - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/assurance/assurance-vulnerability-management
Protective monitoring type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Protective monitoring approach
Protective Monitoring is provided by Microsoft for Azure Services. "Microsoft cloud services are continuously monitored for signs of compromise. In addition to automated security monitoring and alerting, all employees receive annual training to recognize and report signs of potential security incidents. When suspicious activity is detected and escalated, Service-specific Security Response teams initiate a process of analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery" More information can be found here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/assurance/assurance-incident-management
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
BCN's Incident Management process: Upon detection of an incident either internally or by report (telephone/email/portal) it is classified due to its impact and the number of users it affects. Where required, an escalation event is then created triggering the assignment of a Major Incident Manager, re-assignment of technical resource and team leader to provide client updates. Updates are provided throughout a major incident (P1) with an incident report provided within 1 week. Root cause analysis undertaken after the incident has been resolved to help mitigate the likelihood of recurrence. Microsoft's Incident Management processes for infrastructure incidents are found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/assurance/assurance-incident-management

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

Fighting climate change

BCN are focussed on improvements in Energy Efficiency. We continue to monitor and review our energy usage with the aim of reducing where we can.

Tackling economic inequality

BCN will create employment and educational opportunities for people from backgrounds that typically find it hard to get employment.

Equal opportunity

BCN is committed to achieving a working environment which provides equality of opportunity and freedom from unlawful discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, gender reassignment, maternity, marital status, disability, religious beliefs, age or sexual orientation

Wellbeing

BCN is committed to the protection and promotion of the mental health and wellbeing of all staff.
We shall continuously strive to improve the mental health environment and culture of the organisation by identifying, eliminating, or minimising all harmful processes, procedures and behaviours that may cause psychological harm or illness to its employees.

Pricing

Price
£1,000 a unit
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at ric.kelly@bcn.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.