Product Summary

Product Summary

We've talked a lot about applications, data, software and solutions but how does it all work and, more importantly, how easy is it for GPs and other commissioners to use?

Health Analytics creates software that is simple, practical and gets results. We listened to what GPs wanted and then made it happen. Our software improves health outcomes through meticulous analysis of data and algorithms directly driven by NHS staff.

Our applications include:

• Budget and claims management
• Data acquisition
• Risk stratification
• Referral management
• Population health management

It’s technical for us but not for our customers. You tell us what the problem is and we find the solution. If our existing applications don’t meet your requirements then we simply build you one that does.

Population Health Management

Population Health Management (PHM) is the UK's first large scale Combined Model risk stratification tool.

It successfully combines patient information from primary and secondary care sources in one place for the first time giving commissioners new insights into improving patient care.

PHM is now the driving force behind a new model of healthcare in North East London, which helps GP commissioners identify "at risk" patients and improve health outcomes among a population of over a million people.

Practice managers upload data on a regular basis into a secure data "warehouse" which cross references hundreds of millions of primary and secondary care patient data.

The application and its algorithms allow health professionals to monitor and evaluate this data at a previously unreachable level of detail.

Risk Stratification

Risk stratification identifies patients most at risk of going to hospital by analysing their medical history.

Our Combined Model stratification tool assesses those most vulnerable to admission during the next year by analysing their previous two years treatment and offering early intervention measures.

This is calculated using 77 indicators including:

• The number of inpatient appointments
• The number of outpatient appointments
• The number of times the patient has visited their GP
• A&E attendance
• Medication

We also incorporate CHADS₂ which scores patients based on their history of Congestive heart failure, Hypertension, Age, Diabetes and prior history of Stroke or transient ischemic attack.

Health Analytics' unique ability to merge primary and secondary care information means its risk stratification tool is the best in the business providing comprehensive up-to-date patient data.

A large slice of practice revenue is spent on a relatively small number of patients who become ill and make repeated visits to hospital.

Greater understanding of high-risk patient's medical needs and their history means a healthier patient, increased longevity, better treatment closer to home and more effective use of resources.

Health Analytics' software is capable of risk stratifying patients at practice, group and borough level providing clinicians with online access to multiple risk-stratification algorithms.

Our research team is actively involved in pushing forward the boundaries of predictive modelling in healthcare.

Referral Management

GPs make more than 19 million patient referrals to secondary care a year costing an estimated £15 billion.

Primary care trusts have traditionally met these referral costs but clinical commissioning groups will begin picking up the bill from 2013. To date, it has been difficult to track referrals across healthcare as well as appreciate some of the decisions behind them. This can include patient pressure, the reassurance of providing a second opinion and the difficulty some GPs have in speaking with secondary care experts to see if a referral is even appropriate.

Key objectives for improving referral management include improving care pathways so patients receive the most appropriate treatment.

It also means more effective screening for illness, greater patient choice and a closer working partnership between primary and secondary care.

Our referral management software works on multiple levels identifying what individual practices are referring patients for, how often, the costs involved and those most prone to ill health.

A primary care trust saw a 36% increase in referrals over a three year period with huge variations in referral rates. One of its GP practices made 400% more cardiology referrals than a neighbouring practice costing £130,000. A year later, referrals had dropped by 10% using our software.

It also led to better use of the local independent sector treatment centre, which saw patient referrals increase from 57% to 74%.

Referrals Management Pivot

Financial Management

Good financial management is a cornerstone of any successful business. A major concern for GP commissioners who assume control of primary care services in 2013 is the potential debt they will inherit from primary care trusts.

The need to manage and monitor finance on multiple levels from individual practices to borough level is essential along with regular updates and projected spend forecasts which are clear and easy to understand

Health Analytics employs sophisticated data analysis and management that includes the ability to "drill down" all the way from practice-level budgets to individual patient costs. Budgets can be set and tracked, and comprehensive web based financial reports are available for clinicians, practice managers, commissioners and accountants. Industry-leading automated challenges of secondary care data, along with facilities for manual clinical challenges are integrated into the system.

Health Analytics provides transparent and simple support for post-reconciliation and pre-reconciliation SUS data. Built from the ground up for UK clinicians and commissioners, our reporting system allows PBC costs incurred (Consortium spending) to be matched to the PCT ledger position (total PCT expenditure). This clarity is a major benefit to clinicians and accountants alike.

Financial Reporting Accountancy View

Financial Reporting Cost Distribution

Data Acquisition

Are you an under pressure GP or practice manager whose valuable time is taken up trying to extract patient data?

You may be asked for the number of children who have received a certain vaccination during a period of time, or how many young mothers are breastfeeding. All this information and more is now available at the touch of a few buttons, allowing you to focus on patients, not paperwork.

Our GP data acquisition toolset offers an efficient way of collating and extracting relevant information. It transfers an agreed subset of data to your cluster primary care trust where it's loaded into a data warehouse alongside existing HES/ SUS data.

Commissioners can use aggregated patient data to monitor and report on care across the commissioning group.

Customers' specific use of the toolset includes monitoring effective care of patients with specific diseases, ad-hoc reports reviewing specific issues like risk stratification; referral management; and financial challenges.