The current situation
Although most providers will have in house informatics teams who deliver local performance and management information. However as Integrated Care Systems and Provider collaborations form providers are coming under increasing pressure to understand and report performance relative to others in their ICS footprint as well as vs national standards. This understanding now needs to embrace not just isolated provider performance but also the costs relative to peers which will need detailed, multi-provider analysis of things like reference costs and prescribing data. This level and complexity of reporting, particularly the benchmarking elements, requires the use of more sophisticated analytical tools such as Power BI and the information needs to be shared outside of individual providers.