Ben Russell, Senior Programme Manager for Population Health Management at Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System, shares his experience of using the Athena strategic data and analytics platform.
What do you use Athena for?
“Athena is a versatile platform that contains dozens of dashboards that allow us to better understand the health of our population and how we are performing across various clinical measures. It can display multiple data sets in a visual that is easy to understand and interpret.
The platform hosts the PHM Population Segmentation dashboard which clearly displays the health of a selected population through applied demographics. If you need to know the number of people with a CVD condition in your Alliance, how many of them are from IMDs 1 or 2, and what accompanying risk factors are most prevalent amongst them, Athena allows you to do this in a matter of seconds.”
How does Athena help in overcoming data challenges ?
“It allows you to view multiple data sets on a single linked platform. I’m no longer pinballing between multiple sources, collating and reformatting hundreds of lines of data- Athena has done it all for me already.”
What benefits does Athena deliver for the programme?
“It allows us to segment our population quickly and precisely, better understanding the needs of our patients and residents. It has massively streamlined our approach and allows us to increase our output and the amount of people we can impact through effective evidence-based interventions. Less time spent sourcing data and more time to apply impactful interventions that can change lives.”
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