Dr Foster Intelligence

Real Time Monitoring

Enabling commissioners to understand their providers' performances

Do you have the capability to measure and monitor the quality of your health outcomes in secondary care, and have the evidence to prove this?

Access to timely, reliable information is a key factor for both commissioners and providers to understand their performance and improve quality of care across their local health economy.

Already used by over 60% of acute trusts, RTM is a web-based tool enabling commissioners to monitor and benchmark clinical outcomes in near real-time, helping them commission for quality whilst monitoring their providers’ performances.

Functionalities include:

• Easy comparison of complete hospital performance for all provider activity to support commissioning for all your local trusts with the ability to look at individual patients that come from your own organisation
• Near real-time information on patient outcomes such as mortality, length of stay, day case rates, emergency readmissions and patient safety indicators for all inpatient activity
• Benchmarking clinical outcomes of your local providers against the national average
• Automatic alerts to users of significant divergence in clinical performance
• An automated system to instantly highlight possible causes of poor performance

RTM incorporates standardised methodologies designed by Professor Sir Brian Jarman and Dr Paul Aylin from the Dr Foster Unit, Imperial College London.

For further information on RTM, please contact products@drfoster.co.uk.