Cost and efficiency
Track and trend performance, identify areas for efficiency savings and understand and influence demand and patient flow throughout your health and care system.
- InFocus
- InFocus+
- Healthcare Intelligence Portal – Efficiency
- Healthcare Intelligence Portal – Market Share
- Data Explorers
- Information Capability Framework
- TrustView
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Analysis Managed Service
- Consultant Focus
- Clinician Information (My Practice)
- Contract Management
- Service Line Evaluation
- Advanced Analytics and Data Science
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InFocus
InFocus makes complex clinical and operational information easily understandable for decision makers by summarising in one place how your organisation is performing on quality of care and efficiency.
What it delivers
The dashboard clearly shows multiple performance indicators and identifies variation compared to the national picture and against peers. It identifies trends over time so you can instantly see your direction of travel. You can create unlimited bespoke service and site level views, prioritising the metrics that you care about the most. It includes two new composite metrics on quality and efficiency unique to Dr Foster.
Benefits
- Configurable views enable you to see the level of detail you require, tailored to your role and organisational needs.
- Easily pinpoint areas of concern and identify opportunities for improvements in quality and efficiency.
- Save time and effort by viewing one version of the truth that summarises the key clinical and operational information you need to know.
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InFocus+
InFocus+ is the advanced functionality package of our InFocus dashboards, making it easier and quicker to identify and predict areas of variance and opportunities for improvement, both for your own organisation, as well as for your system.
What it delivers
Using the InFocus dashboard as its basis, InFocus+’s advanced analytics functionality allows users at all levels to quickly identify key focus areas for organisational or system-wide performance, and be more efficient with their own analytical resources. InFocus+ is highly configurable and can take multiple data sets from different areas such as primary and social care, and combine them to give an intelligent and predictive view of your performance.
Benefits
- Improved performance across the system: As InFocus+ can pull together different types of datasets into one location, users across a healthcare system are presented with a single version of truth, and can quickly access the information and insights that they need to improve performance.
- Flexibility to make you future-ready: Metrics can be designed for your specific requirements, and InFocus+ has the flexibility to create new metrics as your requirements change – even if it is from a new data source.
- Making the complex simple: InFocus+’s consistent visual language enables anyone looking at the dashboard to understand trends, or variation highlighted by the data. This glance analysis conveys the message quickly and will trigger relevant actions quickly rather than requiring a competent analyst to get the information.
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Healthcare Intelligence Portal – Efficiency
Supports planning and decision making by enabling in-depth analysis of performance issues and inefficiencies within a health economy.What it delivers
In-depth analysis of three datasets – emergency care, inpatient and outpatient data to identify efficiency and cost improvements.Benefits
- Monitor efficiency and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Drill down to patient level detail for easy investigation of the data that underpin the metrics.
- Review and analyse trends over time with historic data.
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Data Explorers
Provides health and care organisations and systems with direct, secure data feeds that integrate with organisations’ existing data visualisation platforms.
What it delivers
A range of analysis options, which can be used to continually mine hospital data and investigate variation in quality and efficiency. Packaged into four feeds focused on your organisational challenges: Quality Explorer, Efficiency Explorer, Market Explorer, and Case-mix Explorer.
Benefits
- Saves time and effort packaging complex analyses into standardised files delivered directly to you.
- Optimises data for your existing visualisation platforms – including PowerBI, Tableau, QlikView/Sense or Business Objects.
- Delivers different datasets suitable for different teams within your organisation.
- Offers flexibility in providing a solution tailored to your specific needs.
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Information Capability Framework
An independent, expert review designed to provide clarity and transparency on the provision and use of business intelligence in organisational decision making. It assesses the maturity, appetite and capability of both the providers and consumers of information.
What it delivers
An assessment against a maturity model framework with five domains and maturity levels to highlight areas for improvement, refine strategy, profile consumers and assess readiness for healthcare system working and integration.
Benefits
- Supports information teams to build their brand and reputation with internal clients.
- Delivered by experts who understand the challenges of delivering business intelligence in the NHS.
- Assesses readiness for system working across a local area from a data and business intelligence perspective.
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TrustView
Brings together in one dashboard view mortality indicators alongside other measures of quality and efficiency.What it delivers
A high-level view of hospital performance with the ability to drill down further into clinical quality and clinical efficiency metrics to obtain more detailed insight.Benefits
- Helps inform and prioritise investigation and targeting of performance improvements.
- Identify and act upon key alerts from across a range of indicators.
- Drilldown into additional detail for metrics that need further investigation.
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Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Provides an in-depth analysis of the obstetrics and gynaecology service across a wide range of metrics from a number of data sources. It enables trusts to benchmark performance against a national picture to easily identify areas of variation.
What it delivers
A bespoke clinical spotlight service following a multi-stage, integrated approach to help clients to access data and insights, including advanced analytics, and make evidence-based decisions on areas for improvement. It focuses on three areas: gynaecology, gynae-oncology, and obstetrics.
Benefits
- Compare your organisation nationally and reduce clinical variation across maternity and women’s services.
- Save time and effort with our team of consultants interpreting the data and providing insight to your teams.
- Drive quality and operational productivity and track continual performance improvement.
- Inform the planning and design of maternity and women’s services incorporating patient safety strategies and measures.
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Analysis Managed Service
Provides NHS organisations with bespoke healthcare analytics, with a dedicated lead analyst acting as the key point of contact, delivering continuity of expertise tailored to evolving customer needs.
What it delivers
Delivers sustained end-to-end collaboration from a team of skilled experts in advanced analytics, with the flexibility to tailor the level of service depending on demand and specific needs.
Benefits
- Fast track and improve service transformation programmes with additional analytical capacity and capability.
- Knowledge transfer and upskilling of your staff in understanding the analytical techniques and interpretation of the analysis.
- Flex your level of service, scaling up or down, according to your evolving analytical needs.
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Consultant Focus
A simple overview of consultant level activity covering admitted and outpatient volumes, case-mix and outcomes at either a single acute trust or NHS England as a whole.
What it delivers
A three-page report of a consultant’s performance over a specified time period up to five years, benchmarked against the consultant’s specialty both locally and nationally.
Benefits
- Gives consultants a picture of their activity, case-mix and outcomes compared to peers.
- Supports consultants with their General Medical Council appraisal process and revalidation.
- Presents a single source of information for consultants, appraisers and information teams.
- Provides a comprehensive description of the scope and nature, including scale and quality, of a consultant’s practice.
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Clinician Information (My Practice)
Gives clinicians access to procedure-specific scorecards so they can compare their performance with colleagues, and to local and national benchmarks.What it delivers
Links theatre and other in-hospital data to create a credible and attributable dataset with clinically validated definitions of procedures and procedure-specific metrics.Benefits
- Identify the source of variation in individual and unit performance.
- A fuller picture of performance with linked datasets including theatre, administrative and other in-hospital data.
- Developed in partnership with clinicians and recognised as credible and attributable.
- Investigate the data at patient level to understand the metrics.
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Contract Management
Allows commissioners to view and analyse performance against contract plans.
What it delivers
View contracting data across multiple providers and commissioners, plus the ability to cut the data in different ways for analysis and comparison of point of delivery.Benefits
- Compare contract plans with delivery by each provider.
- View and manage contracted activity at a functional level.
- Effectively manage the contract by targeting highlighted points of delivery.
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Service Line Evaluation
Brings together diverse sources of information from our benchmarking tools with national programmes for a holistic picture of service lines within your organisation.What it delivers
Four-stage process to engage your team, analyse the data, present our findings and dive deeper into the data to identify actionable insight on areas of improvement.Benefits
- Engage your staff in understanding, investigating and monitoring the data.
- Tailored approach to compare like for like in your service lines.
- Identify or validate specific areas for efficiency savings and quality improvements.
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Advanced Analytics and Data Science
Bespoke analytics and data science tailored to specific needs to identify clinical variation, efficiency savings, predict patient risk and improve patient outcomes.What it delivers
A skilled team of experts in advanced healthcare analytics and data science including predictive analytics, machine learning techniques, advanced statistical methods, to investigate issues and transform healthcare services.Benefits
- Access to qualified data scientists, clinicians, statisticians, mathematicians, and economists.
- Supplement in-house analytical teams with our expert advice and guidance linking, modelling and visualising data and insight.
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