From Insights to Impact

In the age of information warfare, Strategic Command plays a key role in the MOD, working across land, sea, air, space and cyber domains. In 2020, Methods Analytics began working with DDS to create an Artificial Intelligence Centre of Expertise (AI CoE). Our first project: develop an NLP solution to improve data validation for the compiling and reporting of the MOD health and safety annual statistics.

It helps people to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. The DHSH required a new Medical Examiners platform to collect, secure, search and analyse person-identifiable data on all deaths in the NHS in England and Wales. Part of long-term plans to reform how death certifications work.

To support the Abu Dhabi Vision 2030 – a long-term plan to help transform the emirate’s economy – the DoH require a quality framework that will allow monitoring and feedback across the healthcare sector. This new solution will help to set a new standard for the quality and efficiency of care; while an evidence base will support regulatory function and financial allocation.

They look after more than 49 million driver records and more than 40 million vehicle records. They collect around £7bn a year in vehicle excise duty (VED). Their goal is to get the right drivers and vehicles on the road, as simply and safely as possible.

The council employs over 2000 staff who work to prioritise improving infrastructure and housing to support a growing, low-carbon economy; offer education opportunities that lead to the right skills and the right jobs in the right places; ensure clean and safe streets; improve public spaces and local culture; and helps people to help themselves, while always protecting the most vulnerable children and adult. As part of its pledge to compete at the forefront of digital innovation with a commitment to using
technology for positive change, the council wanted to improve organisational data management enabling it to more effectively use its data, lower costs and support new services.

The CCG was overloaded with datasets, spending a lot of time collating data from various sources for analysis. They required assistance in navigating the vast flows of data that the NHS generates and had a requirement to access this data through an online platform and automated reports, which could visualise benchmarked and predictive data for interpretation in a clearer way than their current and complex spreadsheets.

Even in more socially aware times, we can fail to identify that people from the same background can have radically different views and needs. Greater insight into the communities that health bodies care for will be needed.

People can tend to get a little overwhelmed initially when you bring up the subject of “AI ethics”. The intersection of a complex branch of philosophy with a complex branch of technology and mathematics is not generally a crowd pleaser of a topic.

Population Health Management (PHM) is a term that has become common in healthcare circles in the last few years. At a high level this describes an approach that uses data science to shape care for groups or individual people based on their clinical risks.