Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics

The organisations that form the National Health Service (NHS) – and those that provide social care – form a multi-billion pound business sector that impacts on the lives of every single person in the UK.

Thousands of people lose their lives in hospital each year because deterioration in their condition is not spotted early enough for treatment to be effective. An ageing population also means there's an ever-expanding demand for healthcare.

At the Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics, we're working to develop technology that can make the work of these organisations more efficient. We conduct research that aims to make the NHS and social care services better for society.

We're using our information systems and computer science expertise to make the day-to-day jobs involved in healthcare delivery and administration easier. We're using our established links with healthcare and social care professionals to research new solutions to relevant problems – and providing knowledge and expertise to organisations and individuals that want to adopt information, communication and sensing technologies.

And because there's a growing need for better technology that can provide solutions that enable healthcare to be delivered at scale, we're looking for ways to deliver the technology required – and to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to use it.

Research

Our researchers covers the following areas of expertise:

Funders and collaborations

We collaborate with clinical colleagues at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. This underpins our clinical outcome modelling work, and the projects in that area. We use anonymised data from the hospital to conduct our research.

We collaborate with academic institutions nationally, including the University of Southampton, and the University of Oxford. Our academic collaborations give us access to specialist skills in areas complementary to our own.

Our work has been funded by various organisations and institutions, including the National Institute for Health Research, Innovate UK, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and the Health Innovation Challenge Fund.