Introducing INHALE
INteractive Health Atlas for Lung conditions in England
INHALE presents powerful, actionable data on respiratory disease that are valuable both for clinicians and commissioners, and which can inform research and support revalidation. INHALE can drive ahead change by informing commissioning and planning decisions that will tackle disease and improve the health of local communities.
INHALE uses a format that will encourage ownership and trust by its users by presenting comparators that are clear, actionable and measurable over time.
INHALE includes a wide range of indicators chosen to drive clinical and provider behaviour and service design to achieve better outcomes. For example, benchmarking can demonstrate that some providers achieve better outcomes than others and that there is scope for quality improvement.
INHALE focuses on three main themes: Prevention and burden of disease; Early identification and good-quality early diagnosis; and High-quality care and support
Understand variation
INHALE - Single atlas
The Single atlas combines a single map, table, time series chart and bar chart for data display. It is ideally suited to viewing time series data and comparing trends in respiratory data for PCTs with regional/national averages.
Compare two indicators
INHALE – Double atlas
The Double atlas combines two maps, a table and a scatterplot for data display. It is ideally suited to side by side thematic mapping of two different indicators and exploring the degree of correlation.
Get involved with the INHALE project
INHALE has now reached is user-testing stage and QIE is keen to involve members of the respiratory community in this process.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/INHALE
About Quality Intelligence East
Quality Intelligence East, the quality observatory for the East of England, is committed to developing and analysing actionable data as powerful drivers for change, and our priorities reflect the five domains of the latest NHS Outcomes Framework. Strong, accessible data can help to improve the quality of patient care and reduce avoidable morbidity, drive service improvements, inform research and support revalidation.
We promote impartial data that focuses on what clinicians really need from it, such as ownership and comparators, and we recognise that it must be actionable and measurable over time.