AUTOMATED RISK DETECTION - What are the Key Elements Needed to Create a Multi-source, Pattern-based Risk Detection System?

Ian Blunt, Xavier Chitnis, Adam Roberts

2009

Abstract

The Healthcare Commission, the national regulator for health care in England, uses an innovative risk detection system to target its inspections of National Health Service organisations. At the core of the system is a tool that enables: gathering of information from a huge variety of sources, and of varying types; mapping this information to the regulatory framework; and analysing this information in a comparable way to detect patterns that could indicate risk. The tool has demonstrated itself to be flexible and reliable, and its risk estimates have been consistently proven to be effective at discovering failure compared with non-targeted inspections.

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Blunt I., Chitnis X. and Roberts A. (2009). AUTOMATED RISK DETECTION - What are the Key Elements Needed to Create a Multi-source, Pattern-based Risk Detection System? . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-63-0, pages 393-397. DOI: 10.5220/0001781803930397


in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf09,
author={Ian Blunt and Xavier Chitnis and Adam Roberts},
title={AUTOMATED RISK DETECTION - What are the Key Elements Needed to Create a Multi-source, Pattern-based Risk Detection System? },
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={393-397},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001781803930397},
isbn={978-989-8111-63-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2009)
TI - AUTOMATED RISK DETECTION - What are the Key Elements Needed to Create a Multi-source, Pattern-based Risk Detection System?
SN - 978-989-8111-63-0
AU - Blunt I.
AU - Chitnis X.
AU - Roberts A.
PY - 2009
SP - 393
EP - 397
DO - 10.5220/0001781803930397