Isabel EPIFFANY medical eLearning platform

Isabel EPIFFANY 医学电子学习平台

• 批准号: 57794
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: ISABEL HEALTHCARE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=57794
• 关键词: Isabel; EPIFFANY; medical; eLearning; platform

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and enforced social distancing in the UK has substantially cut the amount of training time in the workplace for healthcare professionals in training. Without enough training, new doctors and nurses risk entering work unprepared and lacking core skills. Whilst our project addresses this problem now, our vision also provides a new solution for rapidly upskilling away from the workplace.Our solution is to create a virtual patient platform with cases - made by combining data from three different sources: 1) the very symptoms and signs reported by real patients themselves; 2) artificial intelligence in the form of a clinical decision-support technology and 3) the expertise of clinicians. The result is a new way of delivering online learning at scale allowing healthcare professionals in training exposure to a far greater number of clinical case problems available in any one workplace setting. The advantage of online eLearning is that platforms can automate the creation of thousands of virtual patients, as well as automate the assessment of performance of healthcare professionals on those cases as well.The project brings together a clinical decision-support technology company - Isabel Healthcare, with a UK University - Nottingham - supported by stakeholders - other UK Universities, Health Education England (responsible for healthcare professionals in training) and NHS England's Academic Health Science Networks (responsible for spreading innovation across the NHS) in order to work on this challenge.An existing 'proof-of-concept' beta-version of the eLearning platform without clinical decision support technology was developed by Isabel, and enhanced in 2019 following the award of an internal fellowship grant by University of Nottingham.The project will consolidate that partnership, and transform the previous beta version into a fully functioning working prototype of the eLearning platform embedded with the clinical decision support technology and capable of generating virtual patient cases.This funding would be used to:1\. Embed Isabel's clinical decision support technology into the authoring process for generating virtual patient cases so all cases are evidence-based and include relevant 'never miss' diagnoses2\. Streamline the authoring process and optimise the process by which multimedia (anonymised digital audio, images or video) is integrated into virtual patient cases3\. Integrate an assessment system that evaluates the performance of users on cases and their development over time can be easily seen, with areas in need of strengthening identified to them and their teachersFollowing on from an exploitation event on the 13th October 2020, Edge Hill University, one of the new medical schools in the UK has specifically requested to partner with UoN in the creation of Virtual Patients ( VPs) for use in their early years training programme.Edge Hill University have specifically requested the design of 60 VPs cases for embedding into three strands of their curriculum (cardiovascular, respiratory and endocrine) and use among medical students entering their second year of medical school starting September 2021. The Extension funding will be used to fund the design and development of these 60 additional cases. Significantly, this means that the project has already secured its first reference medical school customer using the platform as part of its curriculum within this phase of work which will help with subsequent marketing to other medical schools.

英国Covid-19大流行和强制社交距离的影响大大减少了医疗保健专业人员在工作场所接受培训的时间。如果没有足够的培训，新医生和护士可能会在毫无准备和缺乏核心技能的情况下进入工作岗位。虽然我们的项目现在解决了这个问题，但我们的愿景还提供了一种新的解决方案，可以在工作场所之外快速提升技能。我们的解决方案是创建一个包含案例的虚拟患者平台 - 通过结合来自三个不同来源的数据来制作：1）真实患者自己报告的症状和体征； 2) 临床决策支持技术形式的人工智能和 3) 临床医生的专业知识。其结果是一种大规模提供在线学习的新方式，使医疗保健专业人员在培训中能够接触到任何一个工作场所环境中存在的更多临床案例问题。在线电子学习的优势在于，平台可以自动创建数千名虚拟患者，并自动评估医疗保健专业人员在这些病例中的表现。该项目汇集了一家临床决策支持技术公司 - Isabel Healthcare 与一所英国大学 - 诺丁汉 - 得到利益相关者的支持 - 其他英国大学、英国健康教育学院（负责培训医疗保健专业人员）和英国 NHS 学术健康中心 Science Networks（负责在整个 NHS 中传播创新）以应对这一挑战。Isabel 开发了现有的“概念验证”测试版电子学习平台，不带临床决策支持技术，并在获得诺丁汉大学内部奖学金后于 2019 年进行了增强。该项目将巩固这种合作伙伴关系，并将之前的测试版转变为嵌入式电子学习平台的功能齐全的工作原型 具有临床决策支持技术并能够生成虚拟患者病例。这笔资金将用于：1\。将 Isabel 的临床决策支持技术嵌入到生成虚拟患者病例的创作过程中，以便所有病例都是基于证据的，并包括相关的“永不错过”诊断2\。简化创作流程并优化多媒体（匿名数字音频、图像或视频）集成到虚拟患者病例中的流程3\。集成一个评估系统，评估用户在病例上的表现，并可以轻松地看到他们随时间的发展，并向他们和他们的老师确定需要加强的领域。继 2020 年 10 月 13 日的一次利用事件之后，英国新成立的医学院之一 Edge Hill 大学特别要求与 UoN 合作创建虚拟患者 (VP)，用于他们的早期培训计划。Edge Hill 大学特别要求设计 60 个虚拟患者 VP 案例嵌入其课程的三个部分（心血管、呼吸和内分泌），并在 2021 年 9 月开始进入医学院二年级的医学生中使用。扩展资金将用于资助这 60 个额外案例的设计和开发。值得注意的是，这意味着该项目已经获得了第一个参考医学院客户，在这一阶段的工作中使用该平台作为其课程的一部分，这将有助于随后向其他医学院进行营销。