Pennine Acute Hospital NHS Trust has rolled out technology from Feedback Medical to support medical imaging workflow and messaging.
The tool is being used by the trust to assist its coronavirus response and provide access to medical imaging when needed. Over 200 clinicians are now using the app, with more planned to adopt the technology this week.
The app has been piloted over the past few months within the Respiratory inpatient referral pathway, and has been adapted over the past few weeks to support imaging workflow across the trust.
Over the past two weeks the tool has been developed to include a form for clinical data entry, group transfer and the ability to designate patients with a clinical status such as ventilation status. Teams can then track cases as they move through clinical pathways and can be referred quickly from team to team.
The trust is also using the technology to support a national randomised study looking at novel Covid treatments, to seek to assess the recovery pathway of different patient groups from COVID-19.
Georges Ng Man Kwong, CCIO, Pennine Acute NHS Trust “After an initial pre-Covid pilot study Bleepa® was identified as a potential secure solution to register and identify patients suitable for the RECOVERY trial and as a messaging application to support multi-speciality clinical decision making.”
“It has rapidly been adopted by our research nurses and clinician specialists in key acute areas across the hospital providing additional opportunities to identify and track patients receiving respiratory and palliative care respectively.”
“The extraordinary circumstances within the NHS during the Coronavirus pandemic has enabled us to test and modify the Bleepa® solution at pace and go-live within only a few weeks with satisfactory clinical and technical specifications. Our on-going engagement with Bleepa® continues to identify additional specialties and scope to widen its’ application within our health-care organisation that will aid clinicians both during this challenging period and once the pandemic crisis has ended.”
Tom Oakley, CEO of Feedback plc, said “It will become increasingly important for clinicians to have timely access to medical imaging and other team members especially in light of a growing requirement for remote access due to self isolation. Bleepa® supports not just Radiologists who need access to imaging now but all frontline personnel.”
