We’re transforming the role of assessment, and redefining the potential of assessment software in person-centred care.
Generate reliable, comprehensive data through TCOM’s assessment strategy
Access meaningful data insights every day through software integration
Contribute to shared learning through the TCOM England data community
Revolutionise our understanding of what works for whom.
Data only works if you measure what matters and know how to learn from it
Creating opportunities to facilitate the meaningful use of assessment data to inform decision-making at practice, service and policy level is a fundamental objective of the TCOM England initiative.
A unique strength of TCOM’s assessment strategy is the collection of comprehensive reliable longitudinal assessment data that bring together the multiple perspectives that matter in the real-world context of providing care, enabling us to analyse and learn from the trajectories of change.
TCOM England’s shared learning strategy enables services and research communities, to unlock insights from assessment data in a way that has never been possible before. By facilitating a new standard or software integration, and creating an ethical and anonymous data community, we are enabling the whole sector to easily access and analyse data to inform better care decisions, service development and strategies.
Why have we partnered with Opeeka?
A key part of the TCOM England initiative is to overcome long-standing challenges in the use of data to inform care and the role of technology in that process. Only then can we harness the power of assessment data in an ethical and meaningful way, to make decisions that improve outcomes, services and systems.
What hasn’t worked until now?
Even when a myriad of data is available from multiple sources, accessing its insights to support decision-making on a day-to-day basis has not been possible. Without appropriate analytical tools, gaining insights from data requires costly support and can delay the positive impact quality data assessment can bring.
Technology is part of the solution, but there are anxieties about giving it a critical role in a sector where professional judgement will always be key. Standard artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning can simply encourage us to repeat decision-making patterns and entrench biases, rather than empowering us with insights to support positive change.
How did we create a solution?
TCOM England has partnered with software specialists Opeeka to overcome these challenges and enable ethical, meaningful use of technology to advance use of insights from assessment data in practice, management and research.
Opeeka’s P-CIS (Person-Centred Intelligence Solution) software has been developed in synergy with TCOM’s assessment approach as the world’s first assessment software to automatically combine and analyse multiple sources of assessment data, track and analyse progress across needs, risks and strengths, illustrate outcome trajectories, and learn what works for whom.
Opeeka’s P-CIS analysis technology is as powerful, but very different to standard machine learning or standard AI; it learns the drivers of positive outcomes and offers insights that enable professional judgement rather than restrict it. This process reinforces good care decisions, reducing and preventing individual or institutional bias.
As an online assessment software and outcome analysis tool, P-CIS transforms all sources of assessment data into highly useful information about a person’s story and their changes in circumstances during care or within services. This information is then available to inform care-planning and decision-making in a way that it never has been possible before.
As an outcomes analysis and empirical research tool, P-CIS enables ethical, unidentifiable sharing of data from multiple assessment sources and agencies. This platform facilitates shared sector learning in a way that has not been possible before.
Using this platform TCOM England will be able to provide shared learning about population needs and trends, illustrate the trajectories of positive outcomes based on reliable data and meaningful sample sizes, and feedback learning that will revolutionise our sectors ability to improve the outcomes of care.
TCOM England Shared Learning Strategy: How it’s possible for your organisation
Software integration is a requirement of the TCOM England assessment strategy to ensure a minimum standard of core reporting and maximise the benefits of the approach. Through partnerships we are ensuring that every local authority and provider can contribute to, and benefit from, this whole-sector approach as we work together to understand what works, when, where and for which children.
Software integration options:
Software requirements
Organisations can implement the TCOM assessment strategy within their chosen software platform by adhering to the TCOM Software Standards. These are designed to ensure reliable collection and treatment of data, along with a minimum standard of core reporting.
These standards are a condition of free use of the TCOM assessment tools to protect the validity of data and reliability of research insights.
Preferred provider
Opeeka’s P-CIS (Person-Centred Intelligence Solution) is a recommended solution for organisations implementing the TCOM England assessment strategy. Developed in synergy with TCOM’s assessment strategy, P-CIS is the world’s first assessment software to automatically track and analyse needs, strengths and progress, combining multiple sources of assessment data to generate actionable insights at a glance, in realtime and every day.
P-CIS has been developed to work alongside existing Case Management Systems not replace. The P-CIS Application Programming Interface (API) supports secure exchange of data between Case Management Systems ensuring information about needs, strengths and risks can be available in real time at the point of care.
“The relentless pursuit of excellent practice across the system will depend on high quality data being shared and used. At a national level, data should inform policy and legislation about children’s social care; help us target support and challenge to local areas; and facilitate local learning. At a local level, data can ensure that the need for help is identified early; resources are targeted appropriately; services are commissioned effectively and efficiently; risk is managed well; and the right support is put in place for children and their families.”
Putting Children First: Delivering our vision for excellent children’s social care, Department for Education, July 2016 (Using good data to improve practice)