GreenCare: Decarbonising the NHS through digital transformation of older adult health and social care

GreenCare：通过老年人健康和社会护理的数字化转型使 NHS 脱碳

• 批准号: 89665
• 金额: $ 14.96万
• 依托单位: PERSEPTIVE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=89665
• 关键词: GreenCare; Decarbonising; NHS; through; digital

COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the health and social care sectors, increasing social isolation amongst older adults and disabled people, particularly within ethnic minority and deprived communities, and providing good care in this situation is challenging. Repercussions from the pandemic include reduced face-to-face consultation, neglected chronic disease management and non-COVID emergency admissions, and severe backlog on resuming normal service. This disproportionately affects healthcare access for older adults and minority groups, who are now at even greater risk of succumbing to ill-health, through accelerated functional decline, leading to falls, which are the leading cause of accidental deaths in seniors costing the NHS a staggering £2.3Billion each year. The NHS contributes 6.3% of the UK's carbon-footprint (27.1MtCO2e), 24% from buildings and 17% from transport, is the largest contributor of public-sector carbon emissions, and one of the principal targets of the Government's Clean Growth Strategy to achieve Net Zero by 2050\. Hence, COVID-19 has increased the burden on an already overstretched and unsustainable health-service and digital transformation is urgently needed to maintain current care standards in the face of a rapidly ageing population.There is strong evidence that preventative physiotherapy/exercise interventions in seniors increase disability-free life years by reducing injuries/falls. GreenCare delivers a first-of-a-kind avatar-led interactive remote-physio system. Innovative 3/4D machine-vision biomechanical analysis and class-leading AI algorithms will be used to precisely measure joint position and other postural characteristics, enabling on-demand performance assessment and personalised exercise intervention via a user-led mobile-interface design, sharing data with primary care electronic health records.GreenCare directly addresses the necessity for remote consultation and proactive care management, minimising infectious disease transmission, helping the NHS to build-back post-COVID in a sustainable manner, prolonging independent living in seniors, whilst decreasing elderly-care NHS costs and entrenched healthcare inequalities. Reducing Face-to-Face outpatient-consultations (£25-£100 and 50KgCO2e per appointment), and minimising avoidable hospital attendances (£1,600 and 380KgCO2e per emergency-admission), through early remote-physio intervention offers potential for overall NHS savings of £1.4Billion and 312KtCO2e---1.2% of NHS 2050 sustainability targets.

新冠肺炎对卫生和社会护理部门产生了前所未有的影响，加剧了老年人和残疾人的社会孤立，特别是在少数民族和贫困社区，在这种情况下提供良好的护理是具有挑战性的。大流行的影响包括面对面咨询减少、忽视慢性病管理和非COVID紧急入院，以及在恢复正常服务方面严重积压。这对老年人和少数群体的医疗保健服务造成了不成比例的影响，他们现在面临着更大的健康不良风险，因为他们的功能衰退加速，导致跌倒，跌倒是老年人意外死亡的主要原因，每年NHS花费了惊人的23亿GB。NHS贡献了英国6.3%的碳足迹(27.1MtCO2e)，24%来自建筑，17%来自交通，是公共部门碳排放的最大贡献者，也是政府到2050年实现净零的清洁增长战略的主要目标之一。因此，新冠肺炎增加了本已不堪重负且不可持续的医疗服务的负担，面对迅速老龄化的人口，迫切需要进行数字化转型，以保持当前的护理标准。强有力的证据表明，对老年人进行预防性物理治疗/运动干预，可以减少伤害/跌倒，从而增加无残疾寿命。Greencare提供了一种首创的由化身领导的交互式远程理疗系统。创新的3/4D机器视觉生物力学分析和一流的人工智能算法将用于精确测量关节位置和其他姿势特征，通过用户主导的移动界面设计实现按需性能评估和个性化运动干预，与初级保健电子健康记录共享数据。GreenCare直接满足远程咨询和主动护理管理的必要性，最大限度地减少传染病传播，帮助NHS以可持续的方式重建后COVID，延长老年人的独立生活，同时减少老年护理NHS成本和根深蒂固的医疗不平等。通过早期远程物理干预，减少面对面的门诊会诊(每次预约GB 25-GB 100和50KgCO2e)，并最大限度地减少可避免的住院就诊(每次紧急入院，GB 1,600和380KgCO2e)，提供了NHS总体节省14亿GB和312KtCO2e的潜力-NHS 2050可持续发展目标的1.2%。