Digital evaluation

iCARE digital capabilities includes enabling real-time data feeds and system usage monitoring, providing healthcare organisations with timely insights for informed decision-making.

The integrated datasets related to quality, safety, patient experience, and clinical effectiveness allows for comprehensive evaluation and improvement of healthcare services. This enables iCARE to continuously advance its methodologies to ensure accurate and reliable evaluation of healthcare interventions and outcomes.

Smoking cessation in lung cancer patients

Smoking status in structured data is often inaccurately recorded or missing in the electronic health record, with clinicians often recording this in free-text forms (e.g. cigarettes per day, previous smoker, non-smoker, etc.). We analysed the unstructured smoking status data using Natural Language Processing, which enabled smoking status data capture to 92% of patient records. A dynamic list was also included within the electronic health record showing all patients with known smoking status on a ward at a single time with ability to trigger smoking status update and referral form for smoking cessation programmes.