Dr Rupert Dunbar Rees, Co-Founder and CEO of Outcomes Based Healthcare, was invited to join a panel of experts for a Cambridge Health Network Event. The panel and CHN members spoke about how ICSs will capture the benefits of data for their populations and patients.
Some key takeaways from the discussion:
- there is considerable scope to use data to improve population health, reduce inequalities in health, and improve quality and productivity of care delivery.
- data can be used to predict future patterns of demand, to identify communities for outreach work, to tackle wider determinants of health and target resources .
- data can increasingly be used to look at clinical outcomes over a whole care pathway, linking longitudinal data sets across providers and clinical conditions. There is already work underway at NHSE to identify outcome metrics which can be used to more meaningfully identify optimal care pathways rather than focusing on individual process metrics / individual disease area metrics.
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