The in-house iCARE research and analytics team is a multidisciplinary group bringing together expertise across data science, data engineering, clinical research and healthcare innovation.
Specialising in translational research, each project is supported by a clinical sponsor, ensuring our work is grounded in NHS priorities, shaped by frontline expertise and focused on delivering improvements in care. Our projects are already saving lives, driving change and supporting the digital transformation of the NHS.
The stories below showcase some of the critical work delivered by our team - supporting the communities of North West London while generating insights, innovations and approaches that can help improve healthcare delivery across the wider NHS.
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AI-Enabled identification of hospitalised smokers
Deploying AI in a live NHS system
iCARE has successfully translated AI research into practice by deploying a Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm within a live NHS system. The tool identifies hospitalised smokers from free-text clinical records, enabling Health Improvement Teams to receive daily actionable lists and support timely interventions for patients who may otherwise be missed.
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Maite Arribas Ardura | Pradeepa Maheshkumar
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AI-Assisted discharge summary generation
Bringing Generative AI into clinical workflows
iCARE is advancing the translation of Generative AI into healthcare settings. Our team has developed and evaluated an AI pipeline that creates discharge summaries from clinical notes, addressing challenges in documentation quality and supporting safer handovers between hospital and community care.
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Kathleen Goldsmith | Sailesh Varsani | Pradeepa Maheshkumar | Yamuna Indiran
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AI-Enabled falls prevention
Turning NHS data into proactive patient safety
iCARE is helping transform how patient safety insights are generated by integrating fragmented NHS incident data into a near real-time analytics platform. By bringing information together in one place, the system helps teams identify trends, understand risks, and support earlier action to prevent falls.
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Yusuf Abdullahi | Kenneth Mok | Mirel Fernandes
Contact us
For general enquiries email: imperial.dcs@nhs.net
For data access enquiries email: imperial.dataaccessrequest@nhs.net