Service Description
The Health Equity Intelligence Network (HEIN) is a specialist health economics and commissioning intelligence division of QALYCOM Health.
HEIN aims to support NHS organisations, Integrated Care Boards, local authorities, and prevention services to quantify and evidence the economic and social value of health equity and early intervention programmes.
Prevention impact is often operationally visible but economically under-evidenced. HEIN was established to close that gap — providing structured, risk-adjusted modelling that translates frontline service data into defensible commissioning intelligence.
Q-HEIN INDEX™
HEIN™ SCORING ENGINE
HEIN™ INTELLIGENCE LOOP
The Q-HEIN INDEX ™
The Q-HEIN Index™ is HEIN’s proprietary risk-adjusted economic modelling framework.
It converts observed clinical and community risk movement into quantified financial and social return through conservative, probability-weighted methodology.
The framework integrates:
• Clinical risk transition modelling
• Structured admission avoidance estimation
• QALY-based health valuation
• WELLBY-based social value modelling
• Sensitivity and scenario range analysis
This integration produces unified, transparent economic outputs aligned with real-world commissioning decision-making.
How the Q-HEIN Index™ Works
HEIN applies the framework through a structured implementation model:
1. Diagnostic & Calibration
Service data, triage definitions, cohort movements, and valuation assumptions are reviewed and calibrated to reflect operational context.
2. Risk-Adjusted Valuation
Observed movement between risk states is linked to conservative probability factors and monetised using defined health and wellbeing benchmarks.
3. Commissioning Outputs
HEIN produces board-ready outputs including:
• Total Social Return (£)
• NHS Financial Value (£)
• Admission Avoidance Value (£)
• Value for Money Ratio (x)
• Conservative and optimistic scenario ranges
• Full assumption documentation
Governance & Integrity
- The Q-HEIN Index™ is: • Conservative by design
- Assumption-transparent
- Scenario-adjusted
- Policy-aligned
- Audit-ready
- It is structured to withstand scrutiny while ensuring prevention and health equity gains are appropriately valued.
Strategic Relevance
As systems move toward prevention-led, value-based commissioning, the requirement for credible, risk-adjusted economic evidence is increasing.
HEIN provides structured commissioning intelligence that strengthens investment confidence and supports equitable, evidence-informed decision-making.
QALYCOM Health CIC (ICO Reg: ZC095676) safeguards sensitive community health data through the Health Equity Intelligence Network (HEIN)™, operating under a formal DPIA with full UK GDPR compliance, advanced encryption, and robust privacy standards.