Power BI is a visualisation tool that allows you to gain intelligent insights into your patient population. Dashboards can draw data from your PMS, hospital and national collection data and help match your patients to a range of information.
See the following links for training resources on how to use Power BI.
Please note these dashboards are only available for practices using Indici, Medtech 32 or Medtech Evolution.
Our clinical dashboard programme provides focussed data visualisations of evidence-based clinically relevant outcomes for individual patients and your practice population.
Each dashboard is designed around a set topic with easy to navigate filters.
The patient list builder in these dashboards can be used to drill down to NHI level data that will assist with finding notes for review and people for specific interventions. Filters can be used to select patient characteristics which help you focus on the particular populations of need.
We hope you will find these valuable when developing pro-equity activities in your practice.
The ‘flu eligibility dashboard focuses on patients eligible for influenza vaccination in the current season.
The Patient List Builder enables practices to identify patients who may be eligible for the flu vaccine and are as yet unvaccinated. Filters can be used to focus on specific age groups and ethnicity, and if considering partnering with a community for health promotion or providing an off-site vaccination clinic, a heatmap can identify areas where people yet to be vaccinated live.
The measles dashboard draws data from your PMS each night and combines it with data from AIR (which is currently updated weekly on a Monday evening.) We use both data sources to try and capture those patients who have immunisation done outside of your practice.
The Patient List Builder enables practices to identify NHI lists of people who are not immunised or only partially immunised with MMR – including those who might have had their “MMR0” between 6-12 months and still require two MMR vaccinations for full immunity.
We encourage practices to follow national guidance and use the filters to compile a list of unimmunised or partially immunised Māori, Pacific peoples, and higher deprivation quintile (e.g quintile 5) children to focus initial attention.
If there are discrepancies between your immunisation PMS record and AIR please review how the immunisation was entered in your PMS (e.g all data fields completed, and indications correct). We are working with AIR to try and improve that system.
Please contact nursing@pinnacle.health.nz if you have any further queries.
Pinnacle’s respiratory clinical dashboard contains more information than the diabetes and CVD dashboards. We've brought together disease burden and standards around the conditions of asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, lung cancer and smoking.
All these criteria have been developed in collaboration with Pinnacle clinicians, discussion with other PHO clinical leaders, and the subject matter experts — the respiratory consultants at Waikato Hospital.
The data shared is from an anonymised practice with anonymised NHI numbers, so there are no privacy issues around sharing this information.
A video and pdf training resource are available for this clinical dashboard, below.
In the diabetes clinical dashboard you will find a patient report that will allow you to identify the NHI numbers of the patients who, for example, could be benefiting from Metformin, Empagliflozin or Dulaglutide, and those without diabetes but who meet recommended screening guidelines.
A video and pdf training resource is now available for this clinical dashboard (linked below).
This dashboard helps practices understand the disease burden in their population, CVRA assessment rates, and whether people who have a known past CVD event are on appropriate medication. An update allows more management review including lipid management, and we encourage you to explore the Patient List Builder filters for atrial fibrillation and other interesting features.
This will allow practices to specifically identify people most at risk of CVD and to consider ways to lower their risks. In addition to presenting key clinical metrics for your CVD patients, you will also be able to compare your performance against a benchmark group.
A video and pdf training resource are available for this clinical dashboard, below.
Clinical dashboards contain identifiable patient information. To meet requirements of the Privacy Commissioner, we need to make sure we can audit access to this data. For this reason, access is only given to named users in your practice. Please do not share login details.
Pinnacle will cover Power BI licence costs for three users per practice, we strongly recommend one licence is held by a lead nurse, one by a medical lead and a third by a key administrator. At least one licence holder should be a member of your quality improvement team for the Quality Improvement Programme. Practice managers will manage the allocation of their licences and will be the contact point with Sam Yean, practice support administrator, who manages licence access for Pinnacle.
Practices can purchase unlimited additional licences through Pinnacle at a cost of $4.90 per user per month (contact Sam Yean for details).
The clinical dashboards are updated daily - data from PMSs are uploaded to the data lake overnight, so any change in a PMS (through the day) will not be reflected in these dashboards until the following day.
Network Performance is updated monthly, after we receive and upload National Enrolment Service data from Te Whatu Ora and ED data from National Non-Admitted Patients Collection.
The SABA indicator information is sourced from the Pharmaceutical Collections which is part of the National Collections. This is updated monthly.
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