openOutcomes
openOutcomes is a patient-centric digital platform developed in partnership with NHS clinicians for recording PROMs & PREMs data for multiple clinical specialities.
Analysis of population level patient and procedure data allows clinicians to create dashboard visualisations and obtain insights into how care can be improved.
Features
- Automatically send links to the patient app via email/SMS
- Patients view PROMs/PREMs questionnaires in the patient app
- Record procedure data and PROMs/PREMs together within care pathways
- See visual representations of a patients recovery vs the average
- Live dashboard for managing the PROMs/PREMs workflow
- Support for multiple clinical specialities via a templating system
- Powerful reporting allows filtering by many parameters
- Tools for statistical analysis of data
- Export data for research purposes
- Easily integrate with your PAS and authentication service
Benefits
- Save time and resource by automating PROMs/PREMs processes
- Collect PROMs for a wider variety of specialities and procedures
- Discover insights into how care can be improved
- No more paper or spreadsheets
- Intuitive interface for both clinicians and administrative staff
- Assess clinicians performance
- Clinicians can show charts to patients for discussion in clinic
Pricing
£30,000 an instance a year
- Free trial available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
2 4 4 8 6 6 8 6 9 3 2 9 6 9 0
Contact
STAIRCASE13 LIMITED
Steve Wilkinson
Telephone: 01612830961
Email: gcloud@staircase13.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
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- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Community cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
- No constraints.
- System requirements
- Accessed from PC/tablet/mobile device using browser
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Response times will depend on the support contract and also on ticket priority as set by our customer. 1 hour response time is available.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 A
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- We provide 2nd and 3rd line support 9am-5pm weekdays exc. bank holidays primarily via an online ticketing service. We offer telephone support at additional cost. Support and maintenance options start at £30,000pa with custom pricing for larger scale deployments. We follow ITIL Service Management processes and our service manager reports monthly to clients on support metrics.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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We provide training for new clients along with a range of video help content.
We work with NHS trust IT staff to integrate authentication, communication and demographic services as required.
Additional onboarding services can be provided against the standard rate card. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Available via spreadsheet or database export.
- End-of-contract process
- Data is available at no cost upon request via either spreadsheet or database export. Other migration and data processing services are available against the standard rate card.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- The openOutcomes clinician's portal is designed to run via a browser on PC or tablet. The openOutcomes patient app is designed to run on PC, tablet and mobile phone.
- Service interface
- No
- User support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 A
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
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Users can use the API to load patient demographic into the system from an external PAS (Patient Administration System).
Users can use the API to authenticate users with an external service such as ActiveDirectory. - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
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OpenOutcomes is designed to be highly customisable.
Clinical procedures and PROMs/PREMs/other questionnaires can be added to the system through the use of templates.
The patient app and communications sent out to patient's can be customised with your branding.
All further aspects can be tailored to an NHS trust through custom integrations or other customisations on request.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
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Servers are load balanced and appropriately sized for future expansion. Dedicated server resources are provided on a per client basis.
There are no shared data stores/hardware between clients.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
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We provide a real time dashboard for workflows within the application.
Clinicians can see basic reports via the dashboard and use filter options for more advanced reporting. - Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a Tigerscheme qualified provider or a CREST-approved service provider
- Protecting data at rest
- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
- Data sanitisation process
- No
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Users can export analytics data to a spreadsheet or database upon request. A custom interface is available to export data into other systems.
- Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
- Database export
- Data import formats
- CSV
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- As per agreed SLAs.
- Approach to resilience
- Using a UK-based hosting service provider with multiple physical locations, architected with hot standby services and automated failover between locations. Encrypted data at rest as standard.
- Outage reporting
- Direct phone call to clients for high priority outages. Email alerts for planned maintenance. Details included in monthly service reports.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- The application has role based restrictions which are managed either internally or delegated to an external authentication provider such as ActiveDirectory when required.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- Other
- Other security governance standards
- Cyber Essentials
- Information security policies and processes
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We run a quarterly security audit of our products and systems to mitigate potential security issues.
We monitor for higher priority security issues and typically deal with critical issues within 2 weeks.
Employees are expected to follow the security policies and processes defined on our intranet.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
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We have a comprehensive configuration management process comprising the branching, merging and reviewing of code changes with both manual unit testing and automated unit testing via a continuous integration environment.
All changes are managed and approved by the OpenOutcomes steering committee and assessed for quality, security and clinical safety by trained experts. We provide a risk register with each release. - Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
- We have integrated software tools that monitor software components for vulnerabilities as code is built. Server stack software is upgraded regularly as part of our support and maintenance services. Urgent patches are typically deployed within 2 weeks while non-urgent security considerations are looked at as part of our quarterly security review. We receive information regarding threats from component vendors and by monitoring internet security bulletins.
- Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
- We use intrusion detection tools that give live alerts. We typically respond to these incidents within a matter of hours.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
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We utilise an ITIL compliant helpdesk to manage incidents through which users can raise issues. We have pre-defined processes for managing and resolving Helpdesk issues including customer communication and escalation.
A monthly service report is provided and reviewed along with a representative of the customer.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- Yes
- Connected networks
- Health and Social Care Network (HSCN)
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
WellbeingWellbeing
The primary aim of openOutcomes is to improve care for NHS patients, directly contributing to their wellbeing. It achieves this by gathering data on interventions that patients have experienced along with feedback from the patients themselves via PROMs and PREMs questionnaires. Statistical analysis is carried out on this data at a population level to provide insights to clinician's about how they can improve outcomes for the patient.
For example, openOutcomes can compare the relative performance of implants, techniques and clinicians against a patient population which has undergone a particular procedure. The patient population can be further stratified in many ways such as by age, postcode, gender, smoking status, co-morbidities, BMI and many more.
Pricing
- Price
- £30,000 an instance a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- A free trial is available upon request using test patient data.