Medisim

the UK’s leading Health Intelligence consultancy, merging frontline NHS experience with data insight

MediThe next generation in Healthcare Modelling

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bringing your data to life

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About us

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Health iQ is the UK’s leading Health Intelligence consultancy merging front line NHS experience with genuine data insight. We are pioneers in the use of simulation modelling within a healthcare setting.

All of our consultants are experienced former NHS professionals who have spent years working with healthcare data to solve real problems from both Provider and Commissioner perspectives.

Our clients are some of the biggest names in healthcare, including NHS Trusts such as Great Ormond Street Hospital and Moorfields Hospital Trust, organisations such as the British Society of Gastroenterology and pharmaceutical companies such as GSK, Amgen and MSD. We are proud of our reputation and of the relationships of trust we have built through our commitment to quality in everything we deliver.

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Is Medisim right for you?

Do you need to:

Make efficiency savings?Qualify the value of your service?Plan a service model change?Streamline business processes within your ward, clinic or department?Improve patient experience?

If so, you need Medisim

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Imagine you could

now

from departments

to pathways to entire health economies.

Transform any kind of data

modelvisually model any scenario

then simulate how the static data

interacts with the model over time and even make

changes ‘on the fly’ to

prove a compelling case

for changefrom pathway scenario

simulations to resource efficiency

models.Feed the model with

your own system data

and prototype

potential solutions so

decision makers can be convinced

of the need to act.

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What is Medisim?

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Medisim is a new way to model any healthcare system be it a ward, clinic, entire hospital or even a wider health economy. It allows you to create a functioning simulation of your system and populate it with data from your own systems. You can then easily modify, add or remove processes from this model to see what impact any change would have to the entire system without having to trial these changes in the real world (at great risk and cost).

You also have the option of adding data from Health iQ’s vast data warehouse to your own.

No new data is needed. It simply brings your data to life !

Model Construct a virtual representation of the system

SimulateVisualise the dynamic interactions and processes over time

Result Conclude with clear, compelling data in context

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CRES Sim Make efficiency savings while minimising the impact on services

Cash-Releasing Efficiency Savings (CRES) targets are something all hospitals have to manage. The difficulty is in making the decision of where to make the savings, whilst minimising the impact on the delivery of services. CRES Sim allows you to build an exact working model of your department, fed by data from your own systems. You can then make adjustments to resources (lose a Band 8 staff member for example) and see how this impacts the wider system. You can even look to ways of adjusting your remaining resources to compensate for the reduction. This is all represented in a visual, interactive model that is easy to understand and makes the case for change clear and compelling.

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Example: IT Helpdesk Simulation

Helpdesk

Job Closed

Emails in

1st Line 2nd Line 3rd Line

Calls in Priority

Low

Medium

High

287

138

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L24

L8

L4

0

2

7

16.25

7.50

4.2

JobsClosed

JobsSLA

AverageTurnaround

SLA(hours)

1st Line

2nd Line

3rd Line

89%

72%

32%

Utilisation

4 4 2

3

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QIPP Sim Improve quality and delivery with confidence

The Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) programme has produced numerous examples of good practice across the country, which can be studied and replicated. However what is often lacking in these projects is a solid, data-supported case-for-change, resulting in changes being pushed through based on perceived success elsewhere.

QIPP Sim enables you to mitigate this risk, by allowing you to build a working model of any system and then construct alternative scenarios (such as QIPP best practice models from other trusts) and view the impact on the system as a whole. This gives you the confidence that any proposed changes will genuinely have a positive impact on your organisation.

Example: Testing an Alternate Patient Pathway

Discharge to Primary Care

Treatment by Nurse Specialist

Treatmentby GP

Referred to Outpatient Clinic

TreatmentContinues in Secondary Care

A

Hospital Admission

BHospital

Treatment

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You already know your ward or department well enough to know where your bottlenecks are, but to bring change you need to be able to demonstrate what you know to others, validated by strong and compelling evidence. We can simulate your department and the flow of patients through the various gateways using your own data (reinforced by additional data collections where necessary). This will allow us to pinpoint bottlenecks and test alternative service models to see if they resolve or compensate for the problems identified. You can then try to increase productivity through further scenario testing, all without the risk or cost of having to conduct live trials.

Patient Flow SimVisualise the patient journey, identify the pressure points

Example: A&E Patient Pathway

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Attendances

Doctors

% ≤ 4hrs

247 92%

492

> 4hrs

15

3

≤ 4hrs

228

489

Wait

3:56

3:24 99%Nurse

x3

x2

Patient Arrives in A&E

Reception Triage andAssessment

30% Doctors

70% Nurse Practitioner

Wait Exits

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Benefits of Data Modelling & Simulation

Prove – Imagine the ease of building a compelling case for change or proving the scale of a problem if you could bring your data to life through simulation.

Prototype – Collective input into a simulation model can help to secure stakeholder buy-in, unify project teams and make proposals more tangible, practical and realistic.

Perfect – Simulation helps you to learn from your data by demonstrating how things will play out across an entire system, so you can refine and perfect your proposed solution.

Prepare – Implementing real-life change is often costly and difficult. Prepare for eventualities during implementation, such as resource gaps and bottle necks, using a life-like simulation.

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What people are saying about us

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Health iQ's simulation tool really helped us transform our services, identifying gaps and allowing us to plan for a future state. Their simulation and know-how has proven so successful that we are now looking to transform A&E, clinical engagements and several other pathways as a result.

This tool has aided our forward planning and has added real clinical value to our hospital.

Health iQ’s data modelling and simulation expertise has been invaluable for us. Before we had access to advanced simulation we had difficulty in designing accurate models that reflect our local situations in order to support decision making. We can now model current states and simulate our data to examine bottlenecks and inefficiencies in detail. We can also model future states to simulate the impact of changes to variables and resources.

This has made a real difference to how we plan and make cases for change.

Joel OkaeSenior Project ManagerGreat Ormond Street Hospital

Gwynneth KirkpatrickBusiness Director Moorfields NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact us

Health iQ offers a wide range of consultancy services and products to organisations within Healthcare. Our insight into healthcare data is founded upon years of frontline experience and our consultants are all recognised as leaders in their fields.

Our in-house teams of developers, designers and data-modellers means we can offer you bespoke analysis, modelling and software development.

This includes hospital systems expertise, safe and secure data migration, data quality consultancy, advanced capacity and resource planning, pathway and patient flow modelling and CRES and QIPP scenario modelling.

Contact us today to discuss how we can help you.

T: 0844 880 3624 E: [email protected] w: www.healthiq.co.uk

St John's House54 St John's SquareLondon EC1V 4JL

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T: 0844 880 3624 | E: [email protected] | w: www.healthiq.co.uk

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