Mental Health & Covid 19: enhanced decision support system

在英国，每年约有200万人使用成人心理健康服务，由于冠状病毒大流行，约有130万人被屏蔽，不得不完全隔离自己。这些人和其他许多人仍然特别容易受到伤害，因为他们本来就有精神和身体健康问题，也有社会脆弱性。来自Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust和数字健康公司大冢健康解决方案（Otsuka Health Solutions）的一组人正在开展一个项目，通过使用电子健康记录中的信息，支持心理健康服务来照顾这些弱势群体。该项目的目的是帮助最需要护理和支助的人在需要时不错过治疗，并在家中而不是在医院或社区设施中获得支助。一个名为MaST的计算机系统已经与服务用户和卫生保健人员一起开发出来，以确定一个人何时更可能需要危机服务。MaST的设计是利用心理健康研究来了解是什么让一个人比另一个人更需要复杂的护理。该小组希望将这些信息与人们的健康和社会护理记录中的信息结合起来，以便适当的卫生服务机构定期与他们联系，并提供适当的护理和支持，以满足他们的需求。希望工作人员能够做出更好的决定，更快地作出反应，

Across the UK around 2 million people use adult mental health services every year, and because of the coronavirus pandemic around 1.3 million people were shielded and had to isolate themselves completely. These people and many others remain especially vulnerable because they have pre-existing mental and physical health conditions and social vulnerabilities as well.A team of people from the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Otsuka Health Solutions, a digital health company, are working, on a project, to support mental health services to care for these vulnerable people by using the information recorded in the electronic health record.The purpose of the project is to help people who are in the most need of care and support not miss out on treatment when they need it and receive support at home rather than in hospital or in community facilities.A computer system, called MaST, has been developed, with service users and health care staff, to work out when a person is more likely to need crisis services. MaST was designed using mental health research to understand what makes one person's need for complex care greater than another person's.The team want to combine this with information about people from their health and social care records so that they are contacted regularly by the appropriate health services and offered the appropriate care and support to meet their needs. It is hoped that staff will be able to make better decisions and respond more rapidly,