Aspirico

iplanit by Aspirico

iplanit is cloud based health & social care case management system for disability, mental health, housing & aged care. providing a live view of service delivery, support plans and measures the impact of services delivered, it benefits service users, provider staff & management and funders by reducing costs,

Features

• Accessible, multimedia enabled care and support plans
• Live progress & outcome tracking
• Care and support team collaboration and teamwork, escalations and notifications
• Management information dashboard based on live point of care data
• Quality and compliance reporting linked to Key Performance Indicators
• Web based calendars and activity tracking
• Web based risk management and reporting
• Web based referrals, needs assessment and reporting
• Web based work management and calendars
• Web based contract and individual budget management.

Benefits

• Cost and risk reduction - from paperbased to electronic plans
• Quality Assurance - Management reporting and statutory compliance
• Service user / patient empowerment and inclusion via own login
• Live tracking of outcomes supporting improved management decisions
• Friends and family inclusion improving quality and cost of care
• Compliance administration reporting costs reduction
• Monitor quality and effectiveness of support
• Staff travel time, meetings, admin, service overhead costs reduction
• Support providers in winning tenders and grants
• Provider revenue assurance through improved referrals and tendering

£2 to £82 a licence a year

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

309647004266123

Contact

Chris Dobinson
0044(0)2036937500
enquiry@aspirico.com

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: No - iplanit is based on open standards and uses open source components.
• System requirements:
  • Access to Internet
  • Use of modern browsers

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Mon - Fri 9am-5pm, excluding public holidays; Client Management Queries responded to within 4 hours.; iplanit helpdesk operates Monday- Friday 9AM-5PM; Support SLA : Severity: Priority 1, Technical Response: 1 Business Day, Target Resolution: 1 Business Day; Severity: Priority 2, Technical Response: 1 Business Day, Target Resolution: 2 Business Days; Severity:Priority 3, Technical Response: 2 Business Days, Target Resolution: 4 Business Days; Severity: Priority 4 , Technical Response: 3 Business Days, Target Resolution: 5 Business Days
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• 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: Iplanit support includes :; • A nominated client manager for ad-hoc practitioner advice and guidance; • iplanit help desk access for nominated administrator contacts within client organisation; • iplanit support including issue logging, tracking and resolution; • Upgrades to the iplanit system as new versions are made available; • Periodic project follow-up calls; • Regular general iplanit training webinars; • Regular iplanit good practice briefings by webinar; • iplanit Learning Centre content and updates. The iplanit Learning Centre is an online resource for subscribing iplanit provider users where service users, supporters and management where you can access relevant support materials by role"
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: • Standard set up includes Scoping discussions and analysis of needs followed by Development and documentation of baseline requirements, estimates, need and functional requirements; • Detailed requirements gathering and documentation with checklists; • Build of first iteration; • Design group review and amendments noted; • Review build to reflect the above; • Potential 3rd iteration of the above where required; • Sign off on screens, functionality and design; • Final build and testing; • Move to delivery/implementation phase and training.; A range of training options offered include on-site, web based and blended training with eLearning suite of content available for self service. Full suite of user documentation is provided and a comprehensive client management approach applied.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • ODF
  • PDF
  • Other
• Other documentation formats:
  • Word
  • CSV
  • Excel
• End-of-contract data extraction: We have a standard 2 day data offboarding service which is DPA compliant.
• End-of-contract process: Typical iplanit SLA includes annual subscription, hosting, set up, configuration, training, client management, project services and ongoing support. Data offboarding is an additional cost.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: The iplanit staff and service user screens are optimised for and particularly well suited to mobile devices . User interface is form factor sensitive, touchscreen optimised and supports auto detection of device type. Screens are designed to be role sensitive with clean screen bias, heavy use of multimedia , big icons and with accessibility options built in.
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Description of service interface: Iplanit is a highly accessible solution which has from day one been designed to support and encourage active participation from service users and families/carers across a wide spectrum of abilities in a way which is consistent with the inclusion principles of the product.
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Accessibility testing: Iplanit has been extensively used by 10 000s of users across disability and social care spectrum. The service user interface has been specifically designed with input from user groups and provider clients.; ; iplanit has had a range of accessibility enhancements to the user portal added with each release up to the current Version 5.4. Each release undergoes extensive internal testing followed by user acceptance testing with BETA clients prior to general release.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: The iplanit connect API is available for users to facilitiate integration with third party applications. The “iplanit connect” suite is an Application Programming Interface (API) that provides a range of data interchange capabilities based on a web service connection protocol and the XML data format. This suite also contains a series of scripts and templates which are configured to each client’s needs and can support both synchronous and asynchronous integration options. For example, we have used the iplanit connect suite to support report integration, data on boarding, management reporting exports, feeds into provider financial systems, links to funder systems/portals and other data interchange requirements.; ; The typical data integration would involve transfer of staff and service user log data but this can also be extended to other areas such as outcome, KPI and performance management data.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: The iplanit system is normally configured for each client to meet their business needs around support planning processes through an iterative RAD type "quickstart" service, this business requirements and configuration exercise allows consultants to user feedback which enables an informed configuration of the system. Following configuration a change request process is used to manage any additional changes to the system beyond day to day administrative level configuration activities. Day to day configuration can be handled by clients at the super user level using a range of wizards and appropriate training.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Iplanit is hosted on Scalable Tier 3 hosting service with dynamic capacity adjustment.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Service usage metrics are provided upon request on:; plan usage, login data, quality data, funding data, incident and risk and safeguarding metrics and data, key statutory KPI data e.g. CQC etc...
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

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 once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest: Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type: Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
• Equipment disposal approach: In-house destruction process

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Users can export their data directly from iplanit.
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • ODF
  • Other
• Other data export formats:
  • MS Excel
  • PDF
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • ODF
  • Other
• Other data import formats:
  • MS Excel
  • PDF

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: The hosting platform and iplanit have been vetted by third party independent security analysts and the hosting service has a 99.98% availability guarantee, a target which has been met 100% since the launch four years ago. Availability guarantees can be negotiated and written into the SLA on a client by client basis.
• Approach to resilience: The BT hosting service includes a comprehensive failover / disaster recovery and data back up/recovery schedule including multi-site locations and multiple data generation storage. This is tested every six months. Aspirico also maintain an additional off site backup of the exact iplanit code base and unique configuration for every iplanit customer. This does not include any personal of customer data.
• Outage reporting: In the event of an outage the following communications plan is enacted: Aspirico will immediately notify the named Project Manager and/or Technical team within the Contracting Bodies by telephone and email. Following this, Aspirico will keep the Client updated during the recovery process on an hourly basis by email and will also notify the Client when the issues are solved.; Following resolution, Aspirico will carry out an incident report within 2 weeks of the closure of a Priority One and Priority Two Incident (the iplanit support SLA details four incident levels and response time commitments). This will include detailed input from the teams involved and will list all steps taken to recover client services. A post incident review will be held with all interested parties and documented to accompany the Incident report which will be sent to the client by email within two weeks of the incident.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Each customer has their own instance of iplanit, stored in its own unique folder on the iplanit server. Each customer iplanit instance contains the following components; • Unique (not shared) version of the iplanit software and the customer unique configuration; • Unique folder structure for storage of uploaded media (picture, documents); • Unique Log file folder for customer log and access log records.; • Unique MySQL relational database instance.; To use iplanit, individual users are provided with an encrypted, secure usernames and passwords which will allow individuals to access the relevant services as stipulated by their roles and permissions.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • 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 receive audit information on a regular basis
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Certification Europe Ltd
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 15/12/2020
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: NA
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: Aspirico management carry out annual security reviews of the iplanit security plan for the upcoming release. This is monitored on an ongoing basis and led by the lead security architect within the development team. This person reports directly to the VP product development.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: As a modern, web native service, iplanit has been designed from the ground up to be configurable easily using the wizard driven configuration layer built into the service. The Quickstart process ensures that care&support plans and related documentation along with assessments, risks, referrals, reporting and other functional needs are configured using the wizard layer to provider's specific needs.; For functional enhancements to the service, Aspirico have a tightly managed Change Request process.
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: Aspirico have proactive monitoring services running on the server and use the Mantis source code management system to manage the deployment of patches to the iplanit system.
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Hosting provides suspicious activity monitoring, e.g. Denial of Service.; We use a WAF (Web Application Firewall) called ModSecurity with customised rules to suit iplanit related web requests.; WAF Denial of Service detection.; Brute force detection on password/login inputs.; Incidents are logged and reviewed. Clients are notified if required and the; response times are client service level dependent.
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: The standard iplanit SLA has a detailed schedule of incident categories, response times, time to fix, communication plan for incident monitoring and response times detailed with commitments and escalation processes.

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: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Covid-19 recovery

  Supporting the community ; provider sector via technology ; roadmap investment in ; • Developed and ; launched the ; Disability and social ; care sector staff ; mobility pack as part ; of the C19 Mobile ; iplanit Version 6 ; release Sept 2020 ; • Delivered community ; sector provider best ; practice C19 ; innovation briefings, ; educational webinars, ; provided free Covid ; 19 templates and ; forms packs to clients ; , Delivered best ; practice webinars on ; Virtual care provider ; management and ; released a new ; community worker ; platform (the ILC) ; with a lot of new ; educational content ; to assist with ; technology adoption ; to address issues ; raised in the light of ; pandemic , Built C19 ; website and related ; content plus the ; Mobile ; iplanit version 6 ; release September ; 2020 ; • Covid 19 response ; pack, community ; briefings and ILC ( ; iplanit learning ; center” training ; materials for “at ; home” training ; ; delivery for ; supporters, service ; users and carers. ; • Aspirico internal ; reorientation and ; reorganisation to ; meet emerging C19 ; sector needs – ; remote training, ; remote project ; delivery etc ; • Delivery of a range of ; new Version 6 ; modules and virtual ; management ; dashboards to allow ; managers to better ; work from home and ; manage remotely ; • Set up social care ; commuinity best ; practice blog and ; good new story ; dissemination ; campaigns on linked ; in , twitter and ; faceboook

  Tackling economic inequality

  Staff training ; • Continued ; Investment in ; growing the Aspirico ; team ; • Hiring social care staff ; and training the client ; management team in ; technology ; • Training staff on a ; range of new ; competencies ; including project ; management , ; technology , ; innovation and ; change management

  Equal opportunity

  At Aspirico, we believe that we are only as strong as we are different. We celebrate everything that makes our employees unique, and we love how our varied backgrounds improve our team and our product. This is why we have formulated this company diversity policy. ; Aspirico will provide equal opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Aspirico will work to The Equality Act (2010) of the United Kingdom and The Employment Equality Act (1998) of the Republic of Ireland; All recruitment, promotion and training will be based upon an individual’s ability and job performance and will exclude any consideration of an applicant’s/employees age, religious beliefs, political opinion, gender (including transgender), marital status, sexual orientation or disability. ; Aspirico is committed to the maintenance of a neutral working environment in which no worker feels under threat or intimidated because of his/her religious belief or political opinion, e.g. prohibit the display of flags, emblems, posters, graffiti or the circulation of materials or the articulation of slogans or songs which are likely to give offence or cause apprehension among particular groups of employees. ; Aspirico will ensure that its recruitment and selection procedures, are consistent, provide equality of opportunity and are seen to be fair by all employees and job applicants. Selection will be based on ability to do the job in question. ; Aspirico will not directly or indirectly discriminate on the grounds of age, religious beliefs, political opinion, gender including transgender, marital status, sexual orientation or disability.; Aspirico will adopt, where practical, affirmative action measures to ensure the provision of equality of opportunity and fair participation. This policy will be reviewed, in consultation with employees, to take account of changing circumstances. ; Responsibility for the implementation of this policy rests with all members of Aspirico staff at each place of work.

  Wellbeing

  Delivering on the promise of ; the virtual, integrated care ; setting ; • A core value of iplanit ; is creating the virtual ; glue to link service ; users , their circle of ; support and the ; provider community – this is a core value ; of Aspirico leading to ; improved community ; ; integration, wellbeing ; of the supported ; community and ; improved use of ; resources. ; • To support the above ; we developed and ; launched a new client ; portal, New offline ; app and V6 mobile ; working version of ; iplanit in 2020

Pricing

• Price: £2 to £82 a licence a year
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at enquiry@aspirico.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.