710139Project "TargetSolver": Solving performance problems for hospitals and manufacturingClosedGRD Proof of ConceptInnovate UKThe delivery and organisation of healthcare is highly complex and expensive. Hospitals and other healthcare providers are struggling to cope with service targets and outcomes in the face of this complexity, budget cuts and unfavourable demographic trends. Warwick Analytics provides novel techniques for healthcare providers to detect underlying systems problems and bottlenecks in a broad range of processes, eliminate the root causes of the problems and optimise them. Its proprietary technology can detect and isolate problems, even when data is incomplete or the pathway unavailable, a frequent scenario in healthcare. Pilot studies in the University of Warwick have had significant successes to date, even with the technology in its current form, turning one UK hospital from one of the worst performing for stroke to one of the best, in just 12 months. The technology has its roots in manufacturing and quality management of complex products. For manufacturing, the benefits are safer, lower-cost production with fewer recalls and better environmental footprints. For healthcare, the benefits are greater efficiency, a better use of equipment and resources, lower costs and better outcomes and ultimately healthier patients. The Project aim is to build on the firm foundations of the university research, to further validate and replicate the techniques and to turn them into a basic bench type of software prototype. Successes here could help to propel the Company and could have significant benefits for UK healthcare and manufacturing within 5 years.