Funding for LUCI, a new clinical insight tool

The new clinical insight tool LUCI (Locating Useful Clinical Information) will enable clinicians to easily access data from Electronic Patient Records which will help them to make informed decisions about patient care. The easy access to this data will also save staff time, meaning they will have more time to work with and support patients.

The Clinical Informatics Service brings together clinical, technical and research expertise from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre and the IoPPN. Using the successful Natural Language Processing applications developed by the CRIS (Clinical Record Information System) team over the last ten years, LUCI can extract information from free-text entries made by clinicians, making this data easier to access and use. It can also summarise patient data across caseloads, care pathways and populations and show individuals’ longitudinal histories.

VIEWER (the proof-of-concept it is based on) is currently used by healthcare professionals across the Trust in a range of pilots including for medication review, management of physical health checks, caseload management in community mental health teams and monitoring equality of access to psychological therapies. VIEWER will be replaced by the new system LUCI in the autumn.