ALDER HEY
“ The second part of our strategy is how we ' re going to use technology to optimise the hospital . That ' s anything from how we can eliminate and reduce safety through augmenting clinical decision making or it could be automating and reducing admin burdens in the hospital ,” she adds .
Alder Hey ’ s digital platform , Alder Hey Anywhere , will allow the organisation to revolutionise the way it delivers healthcare . “ The main thrust behind the new digital platform is around prevention , empowering children , young people , their families and their carers to stay well at home . So the vision is if we have a platform that is able to universally link with any wearable , implantable , or any other device , anything that the children and young people can wear at home , we are able then to communicate and transmit data in real-time to our platform ,” says Liddy .
With the data extracted from the wearables , Alder Hey will be able to create digital biomarkers as well as utilise the data to create artificial intelligence ( AI ) models to augment clinical decision making .
“[ These AI models can ] individualise and predict which children , for example , are going to have lung disease and we can almost identify these children perinatally . So it will allow us to deliver healthcare in a more proactive way that is more focused on preventative intervention to give children and young people better life chances ,” Liddy continues .
On top of his work as a surgeon , Iain Hennessey is also the Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Innovation at Alder Hey . Impassioned by the power of AI for the trust , Hennesey outlines more use-cases for the technology : “ With RPA , you can get enormous benefits and optimisation as AI automates low-level decision making .
122 May 2022