Accelerating innovation
Putting data at the centre of responses to health and social care system challenges is crucial to improving services through research, innovation and planning. At Usher we are creating a world leading hub for innovation, with active collaboration between clinical, academic and entrepreneurial colleagues – developing scalable solutions to transform the delivery of care and improve outcomes for people in Scotland and around the world.
Snapshot: Supporting clinical decision to improve outcomes
Every year in the UK, 1 in 4 Emergency Department visits involve patients citing chest pain or severe breathlessness. Rapid and accurate diagnosis is often difficult.For this reason, around twenty per cent of patients receiving acute cardiac care return to the Emergency Department within 30 days of their initial attendance. By digitally delivering the most relevant clinical data and predictive analytics directly to Emergency Department teams we aim to prevent these twenty per cent of patients returning within 30 days.
Snapshot: Develop new tech to diagnose seizures
Working with industry partner ‘BrainsView’ Dr Milly Lo and team supported development of a novel technology to detect, and hence treat, seizures in critically ill children early – without the need for review by specialist doctors. Partnering together enabled the University to access the software from BrainsView as well as their industry expertise, and for BrainsView to improve their product, access to software engineering and clinical data and networks. Passionate about translating this tool into helping patients, Dr Lo and colleagues are exploring avenues to have the technology scaled and adopted.