What is the Practice Health Atlas?
The PHA is a decision support tool designed by the AWGPN for use by general practitioners, practice managers and other practice staff. It aims to inspire general practice teams to reflect on their activities and develop business models for more effective health care services/outcomes. It is based on the synthesis of relevant, high quality and timely practice health data, as well as using such data to predict future health care needs and trends.
How is the PHA developed for each practice?
The PHA is based on the analysis of the practice’s current patient population data and is provided as a service to all general practices in the AWGPN. The approach at AWGPN has been to obtain practice consent to analyse and synthesise general practice clinical and business data that has been de-identified and aggregated. This involves utilising a range of software tools (GIS, clinical, billing, and statistical software).
What does the PHA look like?
The PHA comprises three sections:
• epidemiology
• business and clinical modelling, and
• access to services and networks.
Each component has been constructed as a decision support tool to assist general practice in day-to-day operations. It provides for a continual quality improvement cycle to be established in the practice to monitor clinical and business performance. Hence over the long term, the aim is to build on clinical and business systems so as to improve health outcomes and develop innovative services for people through general practices in the western area of Adelaide, South Australia.
Visit the Downloads section to download a sample PHA and other infroamtion relating to the Practice Health Atlas.
