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These articles describe the Endeavour open source technologies and services.


These articles describe the various technologies underpinning the Endeavour and Discovery open source systems and related operational services which are currently live.
The objectives of the technologies can be summarised as :
==What is the Discovery idea?==
Discovery is based on the hypothesis that; If health related data is brought together at the level of the individual in close to real time, and stored together at the level of a medium size residential population, and made available via a common data model that uses a common ontology of concepts, and then subsequently used for individual and population based decision support, great benefits to health can accrue.


The idea is not new. What is different about the approach to many alternatives, is that the specially developed software is open source and available for anyone to use. Specially developed software relates to any specialised software that is required to achieve the objective where that software is not available as part of generic cloud commodity services or data storage technologies.  
''If health related data is brought together at the level of the individual in close to real time, at the level of a medium size residential population, and made available via ontologies and common data models, and then subsequently used for individual and population based decision support, great benefits to health can accrue.''


The idea is also differentiated from the commonly used approach of linking end of month reporting data such as SUS or HES. Instead, Discovery seeks to use data as close as possible to its original entry form as entered by health professionals or the citizen themselves, and to use that data as close to real time as the publishers of that data can make available.
These technologies form part of a broader set technologies, many of which have been adapted and used by a large scale [https://wiki.discoverydataservice.org/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Discovery_Data_Service_knowledge_base NHS  London Data linkage and normalisation Service] covering a population of 7 million registered citizens.  


== Technologies ==
These pages can be categorised into the main areas as follows:  
These articles provide information about the services, structure, and functionality that operate using the Information Models; one of the fundamental tenets of the Discovery Data Service. This is the starting point for those interested in health data and the information derived from it, and why Discovery may be different from other approaches:


*[[Discovery health information model|Health Information model]] - An overview of the approach to the Discovery information modelthe purpose, and type of content.
* [[Information modelling]]. Describes an approach to modelling ontologies and data models, together with queryusing main stream semantic web languages.  
*[[Health Information modelling language|Modelling language]] - The W3C standard languages used to build the various components of the information model
* [[Information model service|Information model services]]. Describes the Endeavour terminology server and applications designed to aid with modelling information, building libraries of artefacts such as value sets, query definitions and data models.
*[[Health_data_model_content|Basic health data set ]] - a very high level overview of the types of data mapped from data held  within the Discovery data stores.
* [[Decision support services]]. Describes a set of internationally used health prediction functions,  access via Web APIs
*[[Information model reference data|Reference data -]] an overview of additional data held in the information model.
* [[UPRN address match application|Address matching (UPRN ASSIGN)]] application and APIs, which use a transparent  assured and published approach to matching addresses in order to allocate a UPRN
*[[Mapping and matching concepts|Mapping and matching concepts and structures]] - Introduces the approaches to matching and mapping concepts and the structural mappings in the model
* [[FHIR Get Structured Record API|Health record APIs.]] Describes a set of APIs for accessing health records using FHIR.  
*[[Information_model_service|Information model services]] - the technical services , such as APIs and apps that enable an model instance to be used or to implement an EHR based on the model or particular data model
* [[Architectures]] of data service. Describes a high level architecture for a service, based on these technologies, that processes millions of patient records.  
*[[Architectures|Architectures -]] A high level overview of the architectures that the technologies contribute to
* [[GitHub repositories|Github pages]]. Lists a number of github sites containing the repositories holding the open source software that implements the services
*[https://wiki.discoverydataservice.org/GitHub_repositories GitHub repositories] - descriptions and information relating to the application source code, .
 
== Services ==
 
* [[London Discovery data service.]] Provides information about a set of services that use these technologies under the general term "Discovery data service".
* [[ASSIGN- UPRN address match application|ASSIGN - UPRN]]. An address matching application and service that matches addresses held in source systems in various forms, to the addresses made available under license by the Ordnance Survey and Post office, including the assigning of a URPN. The application and service has been jointly developed by the Endeavour Health Charitable trust and Queen Mary's University of London and the Clinical effectiveness Group (CEG)
 
= Applications =
 
These articles provide information about the applications that have been by the technologies
 
* [[Discovery Query|Sextant]] - A data set distribution service with an option to post the data directly into the recipients database.
*[[Monitoring and alerting]] - provides an overview of the monitoring and alert systems in place.
 
*[[Data Sharing Manager|Data Sharing manager]]- DSM provides a visual representation of data that is being shared and processed and by which organisations, regions, and/or services.
 
*[[UPRN address match application|ASSIGN- UPRN address matching application -]] a web based application that matches single or batches of hand entered address to authoritative addresses and assigns a unique property reference number.
*[[Information model manager]] - an application designed to provide a view of the common information model, and support the authoring of the content of the model.
*[[Information_model_service|Information model services]] - the technical services that enable the common information model to be used.
*[[FHIR Get Structured Record API|Get Structured Record API]] - returns a complete patient record in a structured format following GP and Care Connect standards.
*[[HL7v2 API]] - Send HL7v2 ADT and ORU (clinical events) data to Discovery.
*[[NHS 111 Discovery frailty flagging]] / [[Frailty algorithm]]
*[[GitHub repositories]] - descriptions and information relating to the application source code.

Revision as of 10:05, 19 March 2023

These articles describe the Endeavour open source technologies and services.

The objectives of the technologies can be summarised as :

If health related data is brought together at the level of the individual in close to real time, at the level of a medium size residential population, and made available via ontologies and common data models, and then subsequently used for individual and population based decision support, great benefits to health can accrue.

These technologies form part of a broader set technologies, many of which have been adapted and used by a large scale NHS London Data linkage and normalisation Service covering a population of 7 million registered citizens.

These pages can be categorised into the main areas as follows:

  • Information modelling. Describes an approach to modelling ontologies and data models, together with query, using main stream semantic web languages.
  • Information model services. Describes the Endeavour terminology server and applications designed to aid with modelling information, building libraries of artefacts such as value sets, query definitions and data models.
  • Decision support services. Describes a set of internationally used health prediction functions, access via Web APIs
  • Address matching (UPRN ASSIGN) application and APIs, which use a transparent assured and published approach to matching addresses in order to allocate a UPRN
  • Health record APIs. Describes a set of APIs for accessing health records using FHIR.
  • Architectures of data service. Describes a high level architecture for a service, based on these technologies, that processes millions of patient records.
  • Github pages. Lists a number of github sites containing the repositories holding the open source software that implements the services