Mendelian
Mendelian’s flagship product MendelScan, searches electronic health records for indicators of rare, or hard to diagnose diseases. Algorithms developed from published diagnostic criteria are used to flag patients at risk and a clinical report is generated, providing suggested next steps to take in the diagnostic pathway.
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Overview
MendelScan meets the key objectives of the NHS Long Term strategy such as enabling earlier diagnosis, and better outcomes for rare disease patients. It also aligns with the UK Framework for rare disease, in particular, the first priority: improving rare disease diagnosis and the underlying theme - better use of data and digital technologies.
“The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator has been invaluable in helping us build our portfolio of evidence. Developing case studies to further demonstrate the benefits of MendelScan and how to capture the system wide health service efficiencies that earlier rare disease diagnosis can have. The team have assisted us with challenging topics and shared their significant knowledge of the NHS, this has helped us make good headway on our evidence generation journey and plot the path ahead.”
Dr Will Evans, Clinical Lead, Mendelian
How did the Innovation Exchange help?
Mendelian was part of the 2020-21 DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme, which supported MendelScan’s Health Economics case, by helping build a Budget Impact Model looking at the possible savings to the system.
The team were successful in applying for Primary Care Digital Health Evidence Pitching Event, co-sponsored by DigitalHealth.London and were able to pitch their research evidence generation plans to a group of primary care researchers – a collaboration with an established academic group is currently being finalised.
Impact & Outcomes
MendelScan is currently being implemented in multiple NHS practices, with a roll out to more than one million patients planned in late 2021/ early 2022. Mendelian is also working with two Genetic Medicine Service Alliances, and they will be deploying MendelScan in partnership with local genetic services.
Mendelian has recently partnered with Ipsen Pharmaceuticals to support the faster diagnosis of rare diseases across the NHS, additionally, the team have several other commercial partnerships in final stages of contracting.