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Outcome Health
https://www.outcomehealth.org.au/services/polar/
https://www.outcomehealth.org.au/
POLAR (Population Level Analysis & Reporting) is a web-based clinical intelligence and population health analytics tool from Outcome Health designed for general practice, Primary Health Networks (PHNs) and researchers in Australia.
POLAR extracts de-identified practice data into a secure national data warehouse to provide dashboards, reports and population-level insights for clinical care improvement, service planning, quality improvement and research. It supports rapid installation, automated updates, data security/encryption, PHN-level catchment analytics and researcher access pathways to aggregated datasets.
unknown
Hosted in Australian datacentres (data stored within Australia)
P1308
2025-09-07
proprietary (Outcome Health)
Provided free to participating general practices and PHNs; implementation and access arranged via Outcome Health or local PHN — contact vendor for details.
free
product
1.0
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