BIRMINGHAM, UK – Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership (BHWP) has selected  Health Portal, developed by Dotted Eyes, to help facilitate information sharing at every level of the Partnership organizations.
 
BHWP officials expect to use the new data-sharing platform to meet the burgeoning need of healthcare professionals to access, visualize and share data through a simple and cost-effective system; freeing up the resources of data analysts and decentralizing cumbersome data hubs to deliver access at the point of need.
 
“In many ways, the key imperatives of the new healthcare reform are already established principles of Birmingham Health & Wellbeing Partnership,” said Jim McManus, joint director of public health at BHWP.
 
“Health Portal will equip the Partnership to take information sharing to new levels to meet these imperatives. In opening up data access at both senior and departmental levels across the BHWP and facilitating GP access, whilst enabling temporary and shifting healthcare considerations, we see Health Portal enabling hugely improved decision-making at the 'coalface,'" said McManus.
 
In the first phase of the roll out, Health Portal will facilitate internal NHS information access across partner organizations, equipping new and existing partners, specifically new GP Consortia, to share a broad reach of information that includes lifestyle data, hospital admissions and death from diseases.
 
“In its simplest form, Health Portal democratizes healthcare information,” said Ben Allan, Managing Director at Dotted Eyes. "It’s a single platform which enables accurate and better informed decision-making across partner organizations at every level by equipping a wider reach of healthcare professionals – from midwives to clinical directors and commissioners – to access more freely available, current and relevant information."
 
Birmingham Health & Wellbeing Partnership is rolling out the first phase of Health Portal across all its partner organizations over the summer.