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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals to build digital road map
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded funding to develop innovative new software which could transform NHS outpatient care.
The project will use sophisticated machine-learning tools and techniques to track 32 million datasets containing information about patient arrival times, length of consultations, duration of appointments and time needed to undertake clinical processes such as height and weight checks at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals’ outpatient departments.
It is hoped that the data will help create a digital road map of the different stages of outpatient care so that senior staff in outpatient clinics can be supported to better understand current processes, waiting times and their impact on patient care.
Steven Wood, clinical scientist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are delighted to have been given this opportunity to use our scientific and computing expertise to seek to better understand complex processes within the healthcare system. This is the first time an advanced modelling data system of this kind has been used in the NHS.”
The Sheffield project is one of ten being funded in the latest round of the Health Foundation’s Advanced Applied Analytics programme.
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