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Voror Helping to Improve Citizen Health
Healthcare Data Platform Specialists - at the forefront of Healthcare Technologies - Capturing data once, for real-time Direct Care, Population Health, Planning, and Research
The Voror team design, architect, develop, and support the Discovery Data Platform; an open-source solution designed to aggregate patient data from multiple sources in a common ontology for driving better patient outcomes, research, and analytics in one package.
One example of how Voror cleansed data adds value is the NHS 111 Discovery frailty flagging project, which utilises Discovery data to flag key information to NHS 111 call handlers, improve the patient pathway and experience, and reduce the unnecessary use of emergency services and admission to A&E.
“As a London Ambulance Service (LAS) clinician who provides clinical expertise for NHS111 in North East London (NEL), I want to obtain access to the local NEL information within the Discovery Dataset to determine whether the caller is potentially seriously frail.”
Since November 2018, Discovery data, has helped to identify potentially frail patients using a frailty algorithm. If the specified patient has an observation for severe or moderate frailty, the algorithm returns a value of true; observations for mild frailty return a value of false. If a patient is not found in the Discovery Data Service, the algorithm returns a value of not found. If a patient is identified as being identified, the 111 call is passed to a clinician for additional SME input. The aim, if possible, is to provide alternative, and more appropriate care for frail patients.
“Prolonged stays in hospital are bad for patients, especially for those who are frail or elderly. Spending a long time in hospital can lead to an increased risk of falling, sleep deprivation, catching infections and sometimes mental and physical deconditioning. Despite this, nearly 350,000 patients spend more than three weeks in acute hospitals each year.”
NHS England - Reducing length of stay (https://www.england.nhs.uk/urgentemergency-care/reducing-length-of-stay/ )