A predictive risk algorithm developed by the CSIRO and Precedence Health Care to identify patients in general practice who are at risk of hospitalisation in the next 12 months will be made available to the wider software market following its publication in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.
The algorithm is used in Precedence Health Care's Risk Stratification Tool (RST), first developed for the Health Care Homes project and in use by more than 175 practices nationwide.
The RST connects to GP clinical systems including Best Practice, MedicalDirector, Medtech, Zedmed and Communicare and scans the patient database, extracting the information needed by the CSIRO algorithm. It can be used to generate a report identifying the risk level for all patients in the practice, or to automatically scan an individual patient record when the record is opened, alerting GPs to the patient’s risk of hospitalisation at the point of care.
