Transcript What is iQ Budget Manager?

Complete financial control
and crucial information for
GP Commissioning Consortia
iQ Budget Manager
What is iQ Budget Manager?
A unique application which supports
commissioning and deals with key aspects
of the White Paper around data,
information and financial monitoring.
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Topical issues
• A comprehensive system of GP Consortia must be in place in
shadow form during 2011 / 2012
• Supported by the NHS Commissioning Board
• Management Allowance – between £25 - £35 per patient?
• Pathfinder Organisations
• Operating Framework
• PCT Clusters
• Development Fund - £2 per head
• SUS – must be operating in shadow form from October 2011
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Key benefits
• Automated data validation of secondary care data
• Improved data quality
• Extensive reporting functionality which can be customised
to local requirements
• Information and Management Intelligence
• Automated monthly allocation and analysis of funds
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Example federated area
N3 Network
Consortium A
Consortium B
Clinical Data Interface (CDI)
GP Consortium
Lead
Anonymised Datasets
Practices
Anonymised Datasets
GP Consortium
Lead
Clinical Data Interface (CDI)
Practices
Consortium C
Clinical Data Interface (CDI)
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iQ
HealthMaps
GP Consortium
Lead
Anonymised Datasets
Practices
Federation Server
Statistical Analysis
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Clinical system integration
• CDI enables automated extraction from all Clinical Systems
• Practice Clinical System > Read Codes (2/3) > OPCS & ICD10
> Clinic Codes / HRG Codes and Episode Types
• Application of Patient Demographics, Disease Register
Information, Medications Data, Local Tariff Information
and Local Speciality Cross Mapping
• Code selection and calculated costs
• Requires good Read Coding at Practice level
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Because data is processed daily by the Practice and stored within
iQ Budget Manager, when the SUS data arrives it is imported and compared
instantly to the appropriate months activity.
Day 1
Clinic Letter /
Discharge summary
received by practice
Day 56
SUS Data imported into
iQ Budget Manager and the
validation process can start
Day 61
Queries sent to provider
Day 2
Scanned/Summarised in
the clinical system
Validation Process
Day 3
Records extracted and
sent to iQ Budget Manager
and saved ready for
future validation
Day 55
Inclusion date
(‘flex’)
Day 62
Reconciliation point
(‘freeze’)
This is the only way to validate to ensure the Practice can meet the
Reconciliation Point in time.
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Reporting and analytical capabilities
• Direct answers to direct questions – reports provide the
information required
• Template based reporting engine
• Fully customisable either by iQ or Local Health Economy
• Easy to use and quick to run
• It’s your data and you can access it
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Advanced Analyser
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Re-admissions within 30 days
Budgetary Spend (top line and detailed)
Referral patterns
Quality of discharge summaries
Referral sources
Discharge medications
Contractual arrangements with commissioned providers
CQUIN and QIPP targets
Timeliness of clinic Letters and discharges
Local and national tariffs
Excess bed days
This list is not exhaustive and reports can be customised to meet local requirements
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Finance Module
• Financial Monitoring at Practice and Consortium level
• Facilitates a detailed financial analysis of all seven key
episode types
• Costs for each of these episodes is automatically extracted
from the validation stage and imported into the finance
module
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Capability to customise to consortia needs
• Fully customisable reporting
• Ongoing system development in line with market needs and
locally driven Consortia requirements
• Local validation requirements
• Local providers and tariffs
• Unbundled tariffs
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Current and planned developments
• Finance module
• System updated to deal with current coding/tariff systems
• Primary care providers finance monitoring (PUS system!)
• Benchmarking around local area data/national HES data
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Cost
• Annual licence
• 70p per patient
• Integral cost covers:
– installation
– training: data entry and data validation
– full customer support
– updates to the various datasets of the product e.g. HRG, Read
3, OPCS, ICD10, providers and the national tariff)
– customisation to meet local requirements
– monthly feedback meetings
– Excludes Server
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In summary
• iQ Budget Manager meets both the key requirements of the
White Paper and the Financial, Contract Management and
Commissioning requirements of the Local Health Economy
• Automatically validates SUS data and local provider tariffs
• Enables validation of all invoices between flex and freeze dates
• Controls monthly and cumulative budget expenditure
• Automated centralised GP clinical and prescribing data
repository
• Furthermore the application is ready to deploy today
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Questions?
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