WOLFRAM CONSULTING SERVICES

Improving Hospital Safety withMultiparadigm Operational Data Analysis
Industry: Healthcare

Applications: Integrated Data Analysis

ABOUTThe NHS in England deals with over one million patients every 36 hours andemploys over 1.5 million people. Naturally, this results in a huge amount of data
being generated every single day that could be used to optimise workflows andimprove patient outcomes. This data is, however, fragmented over multiple
disparate databases across a range of hospitals, trusts, clinical care groups andmultiple other organisations, making it difficult to utilise effectively.

10The Wolfram Consulting Teamdelivered actionable results in just 10days, including importing, cleaningand analysing the data.

1000

The Wolfram Consulting Team
identified and analysed 1000
parameter pairings with the Wolfram
Language.

120 MILLION

The NHS provided Wolfram with 120
million anonymised patient records
to analyse, collected over six years.

THE CHALLENGE
Like the majority of organisations that collectlarge amounts of operational data, getting
valuable, actionable insights from that data
has not appeared to be feasible. Even if allthe data could be brought together, it was notclear what could be learned from it or how it
could be put to use to make improvements
within the NHS.

As world leaders in multiparadigm data
science, the Wolfram Consulting Team were
the ideal partners for an explorative technicalproject to combine and clean the NHS’s dataand extract the information decision makers
need to improve patient outcomes and keep
the service running efficiently.

WHAT IS MULTIPARADIGM DATA SCIENCE?
Multiparadigm data science is a rapidly advancing new approach of using modern
analytical techniques, automated machine learning and human-data interfaces to arrive at
better answers. Using a broader range of data science techniques together enables theWolfram Consulting Team to find the signal in the noise and get real quantifiable answers
for problems too complex for traditional methods. Find out more at mpdatascience.com.

THE APPROACH
The Wolfram Technical Consulting Teambrought together over 120 million
anonymised records from four different
databases collected over the previous sixyears. With the Wolfram Language, the teamwas easily able connect directly to SQL
databases, as well as pull in data from Excel,
CSV and text files as needed.
Working closely with a steering committee
comprising of healthcare professionals,
academics and patients, the Wolfram
Technical Consulting Team identified a rangeof parameters to investigate, including thelevel of nurse staffing and training, averagepatient heart rate and the rate at which
patients suffered slips and falls.

With over 1000 parameter pairings available,
the data manipulation, statistics andvisualisation tools built into the Wolfram
Language enabled the team to rapidly scale
up the analysis across the complex dataset,allowing more time to consider the validity of
the relationships and signals that emerged.
This rapid analysis enabled Wolfram’s
consulting team to uncover some unexpected
insights, such as the number of slips, trips
and falls. Through further analysis of theparameter pairings, the consulting team
uncovered a strong relationship between
patient safety indicators and the percentage
of highly trained nurses present.

ACHIEVEMENTS
Uncovering Actionable Insights from Convoluted Operational Data
The Wolfram Consulting Team bought together multiple disparate data sources, combining
off-the-shelf clinical databases with hospital trusts’ bespoke offerings. Using
multiparadigm, integrated data analysis, the team uncovered hidden signals to provide
clear, actionable insights to improve hosptial safety.

Delivering Results in Just Ten Days with Rapid Analysis Techniques
The Wolfram Consulting Team aren’t just experts in multiparadigm data science; they also
have unparalleled experience with Wolfram’s world-leading computational tools andtechnology. This combination enables the team to deliver projects and results quickly andefficiently. Despite the huge volume of data in this project, results were delivered within tendays. Having this fast analysis provided the NHS with more time to consider practicalresponses to the insights.

Challenging Conventional Assumptions with Fresh Analysis
As with many industries, modern digital workflows have made a wealth of operational data
available to healthcare providers. However, traditional analysis techniques have struggled
to provide useful insights at this scale. By investigating the data with cutting-edge
technology and a new, multiparadigm approach, novel and unexpected patterns emerged,
enabling innovative solutions to endemic problems.

MADE POSSIBLE BY WOLFRAM

Using the Wolfram Language allowed us to combine a huge amount of disparate data kept in“multiple, inconsitent databases, analyse it and provide actionable analysis in just ten days. This
project helps highlight how having an outside, data-led perspective can provide unexpected
results and uncover the solutions to the problems that continually hold organisations back—allusing data passively collected through day-to-day operations.

”—Jon McLoone
Director of Consulting
Wolfram Research Europe

LET’S TAKE YOUR PROJECT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Find out how the Wolfram Consulting Services team can jump-start your project within-depth troubleshooting, code optimisation, custom training or production deployment.

+44-(0)1993-883400
Wolfram Research Europe Ltd.

consulting@wolfram.com

wolfram.com/technical-consulting