Case study – EMAP

EMAP ACCESSES 100M HEALTH DATA ITEMS AT A RATE OF 500/MINUTE The UCLH Charity-funded EMAP is now a Trust-wide asset, available to all. It allows UCLH to be one of the few healthcare institutions in the world to work safely with real-time clinical data. It is highly flexible and powerful, allowing those interested in QI, audit, service improvement and research to use and present data back to the shop floor in a way their staff and patients need. The only limit to EMAP is our imagination, and that is not lacking in our Trust.

David Brealey

Consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care

EMAP

CASE STUDY

Improving patient outcomes

In 2018, UCLH Charity funded the development of the Experimental Medicine Application Platform (EMAP). This software uses live curated data to continually improve and support patients at UCLH. During the pandemic, EMAP was invaluable in supporting UCLH as it became a surge centre for the region’s sickest patients.

EMAP is a work stream of inform-us, a new and exciting way of managing

patient data. EMAP captures live data from the electronic patient record, EPIC and instantly highlights areas for improvement, juxtaposed with information detailing the rationale for improvement. EMAP provides access to 100 million health data items, updating at a rate of 500 per minute, enabling the development of personalised care, based on latest, real time information. EMAP also facilitates research. Typically, researchers access hospital data by extracting it from the hospital setting, into the outside world which risks privacy. EMAP reverses this process, by providing a software environment within the hospital, which enables research to happen inside the NHS, with no risk to confidentiality. This means that research is translated bench-tobedside more quickly and seamlessly. During Covid the data collected by EMAP, such as oxygen levels in the blood, blood pressure, and breath if on mechanical support, made it possible to look at a map of hospital beds to see where the issues were, creating opportunities for staff to improve care. This also showed bed occupancy, discharge status and the health status of patients, allowing staff and equipment, such as oxygen, to be deployed as needed.

This experience showed that EMAP could be adapted for any acute care environment, by all members of staff.