The Insight Application enables local partnerships to establish the analytical frameworks required to support initiatives like the ‘Community Budgets’ programme, sponsored by DCLG. These initiatives require partnerships to deliver ‘joined-up’ commissioning and strategic planning across service teams.
Critical to the success of these initiatives is the ability to build an evidence base to; validate commissioning decisions ultimately ensuring that service capacity is aligned and remains aligned with evolving citizen need.
The ability to deliver this evidence based is dependent on being able to build and maintain a time base view of how citizens needs and risks are evolving over time and being able to correlate how this varies based on the services they are receiving.
In order to build this multi-dimensional view of citizen needs and services requires data from the various agencies that are interacting with the citizen - and ultimately the ability to match this cross agency data to create this ‘single view’.
The Insight Application has been designed to facilitate the creation and the subsequent analysis of this single view. Critically this single view of is delivered as anonymised citizen records - eliminating many of the legal barriers to data sharing.
Additionally, this single view is then be used to create statistical models to profile citizen risk and enable partnerships to conduct ‘funding scenario’ modeling. This capability allows partnerships to model the impact of commissioning decisions on outcomes (for example, what is the impact of increasing or reducing Telecare services, for a partnership’s older population, on independent living and ultimately Care Home costs).
Functional overview
Evidence impacts of commissioning decision
Providing the ability to create and monitor outcomes for ‘control groups’ that have been built from a ‘single view’ of the citizen population. These control groups can be monitored using both GIS and standard sharting functions.
Business case modelling
Providing the ability to /predict model the impact of commissioning decisions on outcomes – driving a structured and systematic discussion between commissioning teams across local government.
Data Sharing Services
In common with all Xantura applications, Insight functionality and related access to personal data is controlled by discrete data sharing protocols (DSPs).
Once these DSP’s have been agreed with local agencies, they are set up on in the application and specific users are authorised to use them.
In addition, as mentioned earlier, the data sharing challenges associated with Insight are significantly reduced because the solution only exposes an anonymised view of citizens.
Benefits delivered
The Insight Application has the potential to transform cross agency commissioning and planning of services. The potential benefits are significant and arise from:
- More effective prevention / early intervention strategies – creating partnership wide consensus on which services are the most impactful (at reducing long term costs) will drive increased un-ring fencing of funds – resulting in better outcomes at lower cost.
- Increased return on innovation – Enabling the systematic modeling of the impact and benefits of new service models will enable effective models to be adopted quickly and poor models to be discontinued In summary.
Insight is a unique application that provides the analytical tools and integrated evidence base required to drive innovation and partnership working.