Future Health Today: A pilot and feasibility study, with prostate cancer
Project Details
This program is part of the Future Health Today program of work. It's aim is to expand the scope of analysis of existing project data to include focus on people with prostate cancer towards building a prostate cancer add on into the Future Health Today chronic disease identification and management platform.
Patron ID: PAT010
Project Lead:
A/Prof Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis
Overview:
Future Health Today (FHT) uses a novel technology to unlock information held within electronic medical records systems of general practice to identify patients at risk of or with:
- chronic kidney disease (CKD),
- cardiovascular disease,
- type 2 diabetes or
- cancer
It will also provide guidance to prevent or reduce disease progression and development of complications. This study will work with twelve general practices to determine critical factors in implementation, optimise our technology platform and inform development of a cluster randomised controlled trial.
As part of this study, we will use Patron data to undertake quantitative evaluation of the project and to generate benchmarking reports for general practices as part of quality improvement activities. The data will also be used to validate the algorithms deployed in the Future Health Today platform by comparing counts of patients captured in the platform to those in the Patron data repository.