Case Study: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust improves early AKI detection with Alcidion

A UK collaboration to detect a devastating condition

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a UK hospital trust, faced the significant challenge of acute kidney injury (AKI), a condition associated with tens of thousands of deaths annually and often preventable with early detection. The trust needed a solution to predict and identify patients at risk of developing AKI to enable timely clinical intervention. They partnered with vendor Alcidion, utilizing their Miya Observations (formerly Patientrack) platform and a predictive scoring model.

The solution implemented by Alcidion embedded a real-time predictive AKI scoring model into the trust's existing early warning system. This provided clinicians with a traffic light alert system (red, amber, green) for every patient's AKI status, enabling immediate intervention for at-risk patients. The results gave clinicians 100% visibility of patient AKI status, which is expected to prevent morbidity and mortality, reduce hospital stays, and help the trust achieve financial incentives for quality care.

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Richard Venn

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care