On a daily basis we witness first-hand the impact of the current set of challenges and have done for several years. We come wearing two hats, that of a Health and Care professional and that of innovators.
The NHS appears to be asking the right questions but to the wrong systems or expecting too much of the systems they query.
Remember, a patient record system should be just that.
OUR CONCEPT: - Provide a real-time digital environment that brings NHS, Social Care and other care organisations together ‘in a virtual sense’. Not in the clinical, patient record sense or that of a single borough or trust but something entirely more inter-connected.
In effect, take the Internet of Things approach and apply it to the world of Health and Care – the Internet of Care (IoC).
By linking Ambulance trusts, acute hospitals, Social Care, Care homes, rehab centres, extra-sheltered and even community care services in this virtual sense, creates an environment that encompasses the entire patient journey.
The impact?
Significantly reduce manual overheads – 44% of NHS staff said they left the profession due to workload.
Our IoC approach would significantly reduce the manual overheads - Case in point - current time taken to locate an appropriate bed in Health or Care is, at best 10-15 minutes. Our approach enables the same but in seconds - circa 6000% efficiency improvement.
Reducing delays - Staff in Health and Care would see patient delays as they occur and be able to act upon them accordingly, meaning that thousands of patients might get to leave hospital on time, waiting patients wait less and thus reduce the strain on hospital systems and staff too. This approach already lends itself to predictive analytics for DToC, something we’ve already explored at length.
Reducing costs: Manual overheads alone account for around 1.6m days in staff effort - the equivalent of 9000 full-time staff. This is exacerbated by the total lack of visibility, of anything, outside of the organisational boundary. In some cases, even within these boundaries.
Community Care Services: The money lost by Social Care, on care services that are ordered but not consumed due to patient being delayed discharge, is significant. By linking these environments, the moment a delay is realised, services like these could be cancelled automatically, without any additional staff effort or intervention. The time this would also save community nurses is not insignificant.
Providing this virtual environment, staff in Social Care would see pressures building within a hospital, trust or region long before it becomes a crisis. Hospitals too, in times of real Major Incidents, could leverage this virtual environment to manage multiple hospitals across and entire city.
Thus Trusts and Local Authorities become more clever together. No phone calls, no emails, no fuss.
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