The latest release of Scenario Generator is packed with features that have been specifically designed to support healthcare organisations in meeting the QIPP agenda and is available free of charge to those on our Annual Maintenance program.
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| Scenario Generator 3.3 - Feature List |
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Scenario Run Speed Improvement
There has been a significant improvement of the speed of the Scenario Generator when running a Scenario: particularly when assigning HRG4 costs to steps. |
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Import and Export Default Costs
An import and export feature has been added to the costs dialog to allow all the default cost data to be updated and re-imported into the Scenario Generator.
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User Defined Costs
A cost option has been added to allow users to add their own cost data e.g. non-PBR costs. These can then be assigned to steps using the same functionality as the HRG4 cost assignment.
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Shows Activity Results on Screen
The activity results by step (including confidence ranges) are displayed on screen below the step at the end of a scenario.
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Population Driven Pathways Activity Demand
Scenario Generator can now calculate activity for (non-prevalence related) population based pathways e.g. Breast Screening.
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Grid View
The Grid View allows the user to place a grid on the background of a SG screen. This can be used to ensure that the position of steps on the screen is neatly aligned. This feature is found on the right click mouse menu.
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Copy and paste step properties
Allows the copy and pasting of step properties from one step to another to aid faster pathway development when steps are duplicated at different points in a pathway or across pathways.
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Pathway and scenario notes
Notes can be added to pathways and scenarios to facilitate understanding or to keep a track of developments. These notes are exported when the pathway is exported and are also included in the Pathway Summary Document.
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Referral rate balancer
When entering step referral rates the new balancer allows users to quickly balance the referral rates to 100%.
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Multiple HLD Assignments
A new dimension to HLD has been added to allow multiple assignments to be made to a single step. An example of this is the ability to assign steps to an overall OUTPATIENTS category but also assign them to a second order category of 1st Appointments or Follow-up appointments.
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Condition Prevalence Import and Export
An import and export feature has been added to condition prevalence to allow the data and pathway assignments to be quickly edited in EXCEL and re-imported into the Scenario Generator.
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Change to Unplanned Pathway to show Outpatients Appointments
We've updated the Unplanned (Maternity) pathway to include Outpatient and Admissions step for a better representation of Maternity services.
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Select Pathways to Run
The selecting of pathways to run has been moved from the Pathway Manager to its own new dialog in the Scenario Control menu for easier selection of those pathways to include in the scenario.
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Calculate activity only when selecting 'Activity into Pathway' dialog or running scenario
To improve the speed of configuring a scenario, the calculating of activity has been re-configured. Activity is only now calculated when the users selects the Activity into Pathway dialog or runs a scenario.
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Run Trial now uses drop down
To ensure valid results drop down boxes have been added to some input fields: notably the Run Trial input so that a minimum of 3 runs are specified.
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Results Outputs - Scenarios folder changes to installation directory
The results output folder (Scenarios\Scenario Results) has been changed from what was the My Documents folder to now be in the installation folder of the Scenario Generator (default C:\Program Files\Scenario Generator).
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Activity Demand Variability
An optional feature to vary the activity demand entering a pathway has been added to allow sensitivity analysis around initial demand. This feature can be enabled and the variability specified in the Preferences options.
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Record 'Time in Step' specified in Properties box
Recording the Time In Step can now be specified for individual steps instead of all steps. All steps can be included quickly via the Preferences options.
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Create Pathway Summary Document Structure changes
The Pathway Summary Document format has been revised and now includes Pathway notes and (optionally) trial results.
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Block Contracts
Block Contract details can be added to a scenario and are included in the overall cost results exported by the Scenario Generator.
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Copy features in HLD Analysis and Scenario Comparison
New right click menus have been added to the HLD Analysis and Scenario Comparison dialogs to allow quickly copying the results to the clipboard for transferring to EXCEL.
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To upgrade to the latest version, or find out more about our Annual Maintenance options, please contact Aimee Hill on
