CarePulse market management
CarePulse supports health and social market management (continuing healthcare (CHC), funded nursing care (FNC), mental health (MH), LD, children's).
CarePulse is the technology backbone for market analysis, sustainable and efficient price-setting through cost modelling, best practice service specification and contract development, collaborative public procurement, contract management and standardised quality monitoring.
Features
- Dynamic, real-time error checking in forms
- Auto-save
- Interactive data visualisations
- Real time vacancy reporting
- Responsive web interfaces
- CSV exports of datasets
- Remote access through APIs
- Integrated maps for service navigation
Benefits
- Improve the accuracy of self-reported information (e.g. quality metrics)
- Enhance the user experience (quicker, easier, once only)
- Gain insights by exploring rich data visualisations
- Save time and money through efficient, global real-time vacancy system
- Maximise use of existing health and social care capacity
- Comply with reporting requirements regardless of device
- Quickly read (and write) all relevant content on the move
- Export or print desired datasets to share with third parties
- Enhance service selection user experience by providing comprehensive easy-to-read information
- Simplify service selection through map-based navigation
Pricing
£30,000 to £40,000 a licence a year
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 12
Service ID
5 0 9 5 8 8 7 9 8 3 2 5 9 6 2
Contact
Evalucom Consulting
Michael McHugh
Telephone: 02039704047
Email: michael.mchugh@evalucom.co.uk
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Private cloud
- Service constraints
- No
- System requirements
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- Web browser with enabled cookies and JavaScript
- Stable and fast internet connectivity
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Within 4 hours on weekdays, no support during weekends.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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Tier 1: Initial support level responsible for basic customer issues, reachable via email and phone.
Tier 2: In-depth technical support for technical problems that can not be solved by Tier 1 support.
Tier 3: Highest level of technical support for handling the most advanced problems.
The support levels are included as part of the service and have no associated additional costs (other than on-site support).
A technical account manager is provided. - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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When all new users join our service, we send personalised introductory emails which include:
• an overview of the service
• where to find key information and supporting documents within the system, including FAQs and regionally specific information
• key contact details for support
When a group of new users from the same organisation join the service, we offer onsite introductions and training alongside personal introductions. Screen sharing webinars are held to train new users from a number of different organisations simultaneously.
When a significant update is made to the system, we send a summary of the changes to all current users and offer introductory webinars. - Service documentation
- No
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Users can extract their data using CSV exports.
- End-of-contract process
- The user account will be closed down, access to the system will be revoked. Data will be transferred as required. There are no additional costs.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari 9+
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
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The web interfaces follow Responsive Design principles and thus pages adapt their content layout based on the size and orientation of the screen. They will therefore look different on mobile and desktop environments.
Performance may be slightly worse on mobile, due to the differences in hardware capabilities. Devices with less RAM could experience longer loading times for the interactive data visualisations. The data visualisations are rendered in JavaScript and are thus dependent on device CPU and RAM capabilities. - Service interface
- No
- API
- No
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- Server capacities are monitored and in case of high usage of the system, a seamless up-scaling for additional servers can be performed.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
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We provide bespoke monthly quality monitoring and contract management reports.
We review Google Analytics metrics and internal page usage statistics and can provide these on request. - Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- Never
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Encryption of all physical media
- Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
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- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Users can export their data via CSV exports.
- Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
- CSV
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
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Available 99.5% of the time across a month based on 24/7 availability.
User refunds can be agreed on a case-by-case basis. - Approach to resilience
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CarePulse resides within AWS and Heroku and utilises the extensive resiliency features of AWS to deliver our solution.
Flexible up and downscaling of hosting capabilities in multiple regions allow our system to be resilient to failures in specific locations. - Outage reporting
- Scheduled outages are announced via CarePulse and unexpected failures are announced via email alerts.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Users are assigned to groups and groups are assigned to permissions. Based on user permissions, interfaces adjust the content displayed to the authenticated user. To ensure that only users who should access certain content are able to access the content, additional permission checks are performed in the back-end.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- No
- Security governance approach
-
Information governance (IG) and security is the responsibility of a named IG lead.
The IG lead works with the IT manager to ensure all systems, services and equipment used for storing data meet acceptable security standards and that new and existing systems developed by the company are compliant with documented information security policies.
The IG lead is consulted during the design, development and/or implementation phase of any new systems, processes or projects carried out by the company to ensure information security.
The IT manager is responsible for performing regular checks and scans to ensure security hardware/software are functioning properly. - Information security policies and processes
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We follow detailed documented information security policies. These policies are reviewed annually at a minimum to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
All new systems or processes undergo an Information Security Assessment. Appropriate steps are taken to mitigate any information security risks identified during the assessment.
The Information Governance lead reports directly to senior management. Information and security risks are raised with senior management as part of standard company risk reporting mechanisms.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
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All hardware components of the service are managed and tracked by Heroku and AWS. Maintenance work and security updates are performed on a scheduled basis by Heroku and AWS.
The service source code is designed, developed, tested and deployed internally and undergoes code reviews, user testing and automated unit tests before being deployed to the live environment. Every pull request has to be reviewed and approved by at least one senior developer before it can be merged with the master branch. Changes to the source code are tracked using version control and assessed for potential security impact (GitHub). - Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
-
GitHub regularly performs vulnerability checks on all software package dependencies of the service and assesses the potential threat level. In cases where a vulnerability is detected, a patch is deployed within one working day.
Vulnerabilities on an operating system level are assessed and dealt with by AWS and Heroku. - Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- A third party application is built into CarePulse to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise security using network and in-app security signals. Audit logs are generated by the application and reviewed once a month. Automated security alerts and flags are shared in a Slack channel and via email to notify the technical team of potential breaches and security vulnerabilities. These are then investigated and appropriately dealt with within one working day as per the Incident Management processes.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
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Pre-defined processes for common incidents are in place. The processes lay out specific instructions that should be followed in case an incident occurs.
Users can report incidents via the help centre (email and phone) or use the built-in feedback form functionality of the system. The incidents are then assessed and investigated using our third party protective monitoring application and dealt with accordingly.
Security incidents of relevance are reported within 5 working days through CarePulse's announcement system.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Price
- £30,000 to £40,000 a licence a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No