Health Knowledge Base
The implementation of the Health Knowledge Base utilising innovative search technology can provide a low cost solution to liberate the data and knowledge within a Trust and exploit existing investment in separate data and information management silos.
LSC Group has partnered with Ardentia Search, a leading, innovative business intelligence provider, to develop a Health Knowledge Base solution specifically designed for NHS organisations to maximise the use of data and information locked in existing systems.
For healthcare professionals, the Health Knowledge Base provides the ability to undertake a federated search of health information and knowledge from all sources within an organisation and from trusted eternal sources.
The Health Knowledge Base provides fast easy access to patient-centric information. This can be utilised to exploit data from a variety of data sources to search, report and analyse individual patient centric data for improving waiting times, patient level costing and cross-speciality treatment pathways.
Examples for the Health Knowledge Base include:
Chronic Disease Management
- Looking at the frequency of admissions and attendances at A&E for defined conditions such as CHD, asthma or COPD;
- Analysing the clinical profile of events in terms of age, sex, co–morbidities and seasonality;
- Looking at the use of resources such as beds, diagnostics, investigations and drugs.
- Reviewing the impact of treatments on outcomes;
- Access to selected relevant reference websites.
Clinical Audit
- Enabling key–word and key-code searches to identify specific diseases, procedures and outcomes; drawing together other patient–related information and use of resources;
- Cross reference surgical procedures by consultant against diagnosis;
- Laboratory tests and results with diagnosis and outcome;
- Grade and experience of staff against outcome.
Data Quality
- Identification of inconsistent recording (use of inherent dictionary);
- Identification of combinations of diagnoses and procedures (that may affect HRG grouper);
- Patterns in the data that might suggest value in assessing the methods and processes used in its capture;
- Cross reference to data definitions.
18–week Pathway
- Enabling the retrieval of information stored on disparate operational systems;
- Linking to activities beyond these systems to monitor the overall waiting times including the new and sometimes difficult–to–include diagnostic services.
- Identify patients most likely to breach the current local and national standards.
Better Information, Better Decisions, Better Healthcare
