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Power BI dashboards

The Power BI dashboards are designed to give you clinically useful information that will help you to improve the care of your patients. Our clinical dashboard programme aims to provide focussed data visualisations of your own practice information. The dashboards will give you practical outcomes for individual patients and populations, and in particular support pro-equity activity.

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.

Clinical dashboards

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.

Getting started

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 Shannon Poupard-Rupapera, 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 Shannon Poupard-Rupapera for details).

How often is Power BI updated?

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.

Maintaining your Pinnacle report access and Power BI licence

Access to Power BI is through a Microsoft 365 account licence. Pinnacle provides this licence either through a Pinnacle or guest account. To ensure we maintain high security standards, if your Pinnacle or guest Microsoft Office account is not active for 90 days or more, it will be disabled. If you wish to enable an account that has been disabled please contact Shannon Poupard-Rupapera. The best way to keep your account active, and to ensure you are up to date with the information Power BI apps provides to you, is to log in frequently.

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