OBH’s Outcomes Platform selected to join NHS Innovation Accelerator
NHS England Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh and Professor Robert Wachter, select Outcomes Based Healthcare (OBH) technology as one of eight innovations to benefit millions of patients
A technology developed in the UK by specialist data company Outcomes Based Healthcare (OBH) has been selected for a national NHS acceleration programme to help measure if care is making a meaningful difference to people and to empower the NHS to prevent diseases, reduce severe illness and improve quality of life.
NHS England Medical Director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh and US digital health expert Professor Robert Wachter revealed in November eight health innovations to join the NHS Innovation Accelerator for 2016. The innovations selected to join the programme include OBH’s Outcomes Platform - a web-based population health analytics product that measures whether care provided is making a meaningful difference to people’s lives.
The technology supports healthcare systems, such as commissioners and care providers, who are actively working towards building ‘value based healthcare’ models in their organisations. It enables health systems to organise care between different providers more effectively, around outcomes that are important for people and populations.
The key focus for OBH is to shift measurement and reimbursement away from simply volume of illness treated towards improving people’s health. This includes preventing disease, reducing severe illness, improving quality of life, and feeling able to confidently manage their health conditions.
'Being selected by NHS England as one of its eight innovations for 2016 is a fantastic opportunity to move to rewarding NHS organisations not only for the great work they do to treat patients, but for the serious efforts being made to prevent serious adverse events,' said Dr Rupert Dunbar-Rees, the CEO and founder of Outcomes Based Healthcare. 'This reflects the huge amount of hard work the NHS is now putting into defining, measuring and paying for the things which actually matter to people.'
Last year, the programme selected 17 innovations and supported their rollout across more than 380 NHS organisations. Each innovation is evidence-based and cost-saving, and focuses on providing solutions to key challenges facing the NHS, including better prevention of ill health, improved management of long term conditions and early intervention into diseases.
