IDRS is an evidence-based scoring system that measures patterns of institutional healthcare delay using Queensland coronial inquest findings — built for the legal and health insurance sectors.
The problem
Queensland coronial inquests reveal a recurring picture: healthcare institutions where delayed escalation, missed referrals, and dismissed concerns compound into fatal outcomes. Today, identifying these patterns requires thousands of hours of manual review — and the insight rarely reaches the practitioners who need it.
What IDRS does
IDRS extracts, structures, and scores healthcare institutional delay from publicly available Queensland inquest findings — producing reproducible, auditable risk scores at the case and facility level.
Structured data extracted from inquest PDFs using a dual-pass NLP pipeline with human review and tiebreaker logic.
Six-dimensional scoring formula — signal strength, delay weight, severity, escalation, vulnerability, and complaint modifier — with full audit trail.
Case scores are normalised by facility volume, so a facility is not penalised simply for appearing more often in the public record. Comparative ranking is withheld until the corpus supports it.
No individual practitioner identification. Pre-registered methodology. Coronial findings are public documents under the Coroners Act 2003 (Qld).
How it works
Three stages — from public court documents to structured, auditable institutional risk intelligence.
Publicly available PDF findings from the Coroners Court of Queensland, published under the Coroners Act 2003 (Qld). No private health records accessed.
A dual-pass NLP pipeline identifies 22 institutional failure pattern types across 6 scoring dimensions. Cases are human-reviewed, with a documented tiebreaker procedure for resolving conflicts between passes.
A six-dimensional formula produces a reproducible risk score per case, normalised by facility volume to enable fair comparison across Queensland Health institutions.
Who it's for
Quickly find the coronial findings relevant to a client's case, with the institutional delay patterns in each one identified and scored. Every result traces back to a named public document.
Portfolio-level risk intelligence on facility-specific delay patterns. Evidence-based underwriting signal from independently sourced coronial data.
Pre-registered, reproducible scoring methodology. Open science framework with OSF pre-registration. Suitable for academic partnership and peer-reviewed output.
Roadmap
IDRS is a platform, not a one-off study. Each phase extends the scope, automation, and reach of institutional risk intelligence.
70 Queensland coronial cases extracted, scored, and human-reviewed against a pre-registered methodology, across 22 institutional failure pattern types. Findings are reported per case, each traceable to a named public document.
Automated ingestion of new coronial findings as published. Interactive facility dashboard. Queensland Health institutions tracked continuously as new inquest findings are released.
Applying Phase 1 and 2 failure pattern signatures to complaint, incident, and clinical governance data — flagging at-risk facilities before harm occurs, not after. National expansion beyond Queensland.
About
IDRS was built to address a gap between what Queensland coronial findings document and what the health and legal sectors can systematically measure. Institutional failure patterns appear repeatedly across inquest findings — but without a reproducible, auditable method for identifying and ranking them, that information stays buried in PDFs. The project uses a pre-registered methodology, open science standards, and a human-reviewed extraction pipeline to change that. Based in Brisbane, QLD.
Research integrity
IDRS's scoring methodology, corpus definition, and analysis plan are pre-registered on the Open Science Framework before Phase 1 scoring runs. This prevents post-hoc hypothesis changes and ensures results are independently verifiable.
doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/3U24Z ↗IDRS Phase 1 is complete. Join the waitlist to be notified when results are available for your sector.
Or email directly: jaih@idrsystem.com.au