Scope

Multi-morbidity (two or more concurrent chronic conditions) is associated with poor quality health, reduced life expectancy, greater levels of social exclusion, and reduced employment opportunities.

Currently the identification and characterisation of multi-morbidity is hindered by poor real-time access to fragmented individual data sets. This leads to delays in clinicians being able to make rapid, informed recommendations on the best next steps in a person’s care journey.

The aim is to develop a data-driven solution that can improve and personalize the care plans for patients with multimorbidity when they have an emergency admission to hospital by introducing analytical models in the clinical system that could assist with the risk assessment of patients.

In phase 1, you must:

• Engage with clinicians, patients and other stakeholders to understand data sets, ascertain end-user requirements and how information visualisation can be tailored to clinicians
• Outline requirements and plans for Phase 2

At this stage contracts will be awarded for phase 1 only. You must define your goals and outline your plan for phase 2. This is part of the full commercial implementation in your phase 1 proposal.  

You must demonstrate a credible and practical route to market, so your application must include a plan to commercialise your results.

Will not fund projects that cover:

• Solutions that are incompatible with the current technologies used by the healthcare community and the main patient population in Scotland
• Basic research or exploratory studies where an idea or solution has not been identified