Dr Foster Intelligence | Population Health Manager (PHM)

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Population Health Manager (PHM)

Putting public health at the heart of commissioning

Population Health Manager (PHM) is a secure, web-based, fully managed application providing commissioners and public health professionals with the insight and intelligence required to become World Class. PHM enables Primary Care Trusts to:

Understand and segment the local population

Identify and analyse local health inequalities

Monitor trends and forecast population health needs

Aligned to the World Class Commissioning agenda, PHM enables Public Health and Commissioning teams within Primary Care Trusts to realise an evidence-based approach to improving local population health outcomes. PHM enables users to:

Make regular health needs assessments
Develop clear and robust segmentation models of population health needs
Uncover inequalities to target unmet needs or gaps in care
Predict future trends based on population change

Local data integration

Population Health Manager (PHM) provides access to a range of robust, timely and relevant datasets which can be blended to provide a detailed picture of your population's health needs. These include:

Hospital inpatient and outpatient activity data (updated monthly)
Population demographic data and projections
Health and lifestyle prevalence estimates

PHM is regularly updated with new datasets and benchmarked models which provide new intelligence on local population health outcomes. The tool also enables users to upload, manage, analyse and share local datasets to blend with those core datasets provided with the tool.

Population Health Manager can help you answer:

Population insight

What is the demographic make-up of the local population?
What are the demographic projections for my area?

Health needs and risk

How does my PCT compare against national, regional or peer benchmarks?
How do our local health needs compare with similar populations?
What is the PCT currently commissioning? What is the market size?

Understand trends

How have activity trends changed in the past?
How can we estimate prevalence for future populations?
How will costs be affected in five years time

For further information on PHM, please contact products@drfoster.co.uk.