Discovery Explorer
Explorer and it's capabilities
Discovery Explorer is a user interface web application which allows users to build queries, dashboards and view results without any knowledge needed of the database structure or of the SQL language.
Explorer will by nature produce more accurate results because it ‘understands’ the database structures and clinical model, and the machine generates the SQL that’s already been pre-tested.
The features and benefits of using Discovery Explorer are:
- Create and build your own value sets with an inbuilt browser.
- Bulk upload your value sets from a CSV file.
- Create your own detailed queries with our intuitive query engine that is able to handle highly sophisticated queries in a user friendly experience - no SQL skills required.
- Build queries to identify patients at risk or in need of further intervention.
- View historical trends of query results.
- View registries to show compliance of QOF and other data sets, easily comparing, practices, CCGS and hospitals.
- Drill-down to lists of patients behind query results.
- View each patient’s complete integrated care record.
- Use our dashboard suit or create a csv output for your query to interrogate in 3rd party applications.
- Create outputs containing demographic, medication, encounter or clinical data.
- View intuitive dashboards at STP, CCG, PCN or practice level, patient identifiable or de identifiable dependent on your permission level.
- View geospatial maps show prevalence of diseases, conditions or vaccination up take by area.
Further details explaining the access and authentication levels can be found in the Discovery Explorer- Specification article.
Access and support
Access and support are controlled by the Discovery Programme team in London.
Access is controlled by Andy Thomas and can be requested using this Discovery Explorer User Request Form
Training Videos
Training videos are available within the application to help you to navigate and utilise the system. Below are videos that will assist you in using Discovery Explorer:
Key features
Explanation of the key features available in Discovery Explorer.
How to logon to the application and navigate around the menus and modules:
Covid library
How to use the COVID-19 dashboards.
Dashboard library
How to create and view your own dashboards.
Maps
How to use the geospatial maps.
Query results
How to view results of queries and drill-down to records.
Query & data set library
How to create queries, data sets and visualisations.
Query queue
Explanation of the query queue module.
Value set library
How to create and modify value sets used by queries.:
Population counts
Explanation of the population counts module.