The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is in crisis. With a current budget of just over £100 billion, the NHS
predicts a £30 billion funding gap by 2020 or 2021 unless there is radical action. A key part of this is addressing how the NHS can predict and prevent harm well in advance and deliver a "digital healthcare transformation" to their frontline services, utilizing vast quantities of data to make informed and insightful decisions.
This is where Wolfram comes in. Our UK-based
Technical Services Team worked with the British NHS to help solve a specific problem facing the NHS---one many organizations will recognize: data sitting in siloed databases, with limited analysis algorithms on offer. They wanted to see if it was possible to pull together multiple data sources, combining off-the-shelf clinical databases with the hospital trusts' bespoke offerings and mine them for signals. We set out to help them answer questions like "Can the number of slips, trips and falls in hospitals be reduced?"