Primary care data is the cornerstone of effective Population Health Management approaches to improving care planning and delivery, enabling the identification of population segments and a better understanding of their healthcare needs.
Arden & GEM’s data management service is experienced in identifying, onboarding and curating primary care data flows, applying pseudonymisation and/or deidentification to allow for linkage at the person level. This linked data is made accessible to health and care systems in a meaningful and user-friendly manner to help improve outcomes for the populations we serve.
Primary care teams can segment and risk stratify patient cohorts for direct intervention, using rich person-level data sets and longitudinal records, while the ICS can user dashboards and benchmarking to focus on the reduction of inequalities and the improvement of health outcomes.
Our support for primary care data flows includes:
- Technical specification of primary care data flows
- Transfer load and data processing
- Advice to navigate national and local information governance requirements
- Implementation of Privacy Enhancing Technology (including pseudonymisation) to allow for linkage.
Primary care patient-level data flows have already been utilised to support medicines optimisation, health inequalities programmes, case finding tools, long-term condition monitoring and individualised risk ratings.
Why Arden & GEM?
We have experience of working with customers to flow and link their primary care data to secondary care data for population segmentation and advanced risk stratification models.
All of the data we manage is protected by best practice Data Sharing Agreements and deidentification processes. We are also certified by the Data Security Protection Toolkit (exceeding standards) and Cyber Security Essentials.
Our team has expertise in testing, assuring, aggregating and analysing primary care data flows.
CASE STUDIES
Arden & GEM is already helping healthcare systems with Primary Care Patient-Level Data Flows. Find out more by accessing the resources below.
Maximising the impact of social prescribing through a case-finding tool using machine learning
Arden & GEM’s Advanced Analytics Unit has developed a case-finding tool, based on a machine learning model, to enable social prescribers to proactively target patients in advance of a GP referral.
Developing bespoke population health dashboards for NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB
When NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) ICB needed population health comparator and benchmark information at a place, PCN and GP practice level, Arden & GEM’s business intelligence team set about developing a new suite of dashboards.
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