Better understand your PCN population health data

As a PCN leader, it is likely to be questioning whether the Ardens manager is still worth the investment now that the IIF has been reduced. You may be using it mainly for the Dashboard network or looking for better ways to understand the health data of its population.

While many of us familiarize ourselves with the Ardens manager to track the IIF metrics, their true power is in another place. Duration A recent conversation with Ardens Charmaine, reminded me of the deepest capabilities of the platforms that are not used.

If you are looking to better understand your patient demography, the population board breakd down its population by age, demography, ethnicity, deprivation and health conditions.

Imagine planning your next vaccination campaign. They insert the estimate, you can know exactly how many 70-79 years old are in their PCN. For children’s immunizations, they will know precisely how many children they need to vaccinate, which facilitates the planning of the workforce.

What is particularly valuable is the ability to deepen its 40-49 years?

You can explore your gender breakdown, ethnic composition, deprivation state and prevalent health conditions.

This could reveal, for example, that mental health conditions are surprisingly common in this group, which helps you direct the most effective interventions.

With the risk stratification now a requirement in the DES, PCNs should identify patients who would benefit more from the continuity of care.

• Many PCNs are already segmenting their populations based on demography, long -term conditions and other factors.

• Risk stratification models are also available as John Hopkins, Cambridge Multimorbide Score and Qrisk3

• These local approaches are often combined with digital tools such as Ardens Manager for greater visibility and coordination

If you are already using Ardens Manager, you already have:

• Segmentation of patients due to demographic data (including deprivation and multimorbilities)

• Specific stratification of panels such as diabetes

• Stratification of the risk of care that stands out to patients who need regular contact with the same doctor

Ardens is actively expanding its risk stratification options and is reviewing several risk stratification models.

For those who focus on the integrated health of the neighborhood, the dedicated panels for learning disabilities, mental health, physical disabilities, sensory disabilities and substance use disorders can help identify the largest of track.

Highlight safety alerts that have lost appointments or that may be missing in the appropriate records are prulpulous valuable for quality care.

The dating board reveals ideas that are not available in its clinical system.

Using Ardens Manager, you can see:

• Where the waste is produced

• Who are using multiple citations?

• If appropriate staff members are seeing high, medium and low patients

• How effective your PCN staff is being used

This information directly informs decisions on the assignment of personnel and appointment systems that can improve the efficiency in your network.

100% Yes, if you want to monitor the performance of your network and really understand the health of your population.

1. Provide a much greater visibility than is happening in practice, PCN and ICB at the level

2. Help it to understand its population in detail, planning of the Information Service and Resource Assignment

3. Support it to fulfill its obligations around the health management of the population

4. Save time automating the collection and analysis of data that would otherwise be manual

As we move towards a greater approach to the health of the population and integrated care, have easy access to demographic and detailed health information becomes increasingly important for effective decision making.

If you are already using Ardens Manager but mainly for the IIF metrics, I encourage you to explore the population board and other features. You may be surprised by what you discover about your patient population and the processable ideas you can obtain.

We will explore thesis thesis more thoroughly in our next Web Seminar on June 4.

Meanwhile, Ardens, collecting comments on risk stratification models is that primary care networks (PCN) are using to inform the future development of the board. Please share your thoughts here.

The primary care of THC is a award -winning specialization of health consulting in the management of the Primary Care Network and the creator of the Podcast Business of Healthcare. With about 20 years in the industry, we have supported more than 200 PCN through interim management, training and consulting.

Our experience covers project management and business development in public and private sectors. Our work has been published in the London Journal of Primary Care, and we have written about 250 blogs that share ideas about primary care networks.