London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust has introduced a new tool to help clinical teams monitor and track the progress of COVID-19 patients in intensive care.
The software, Pathpoint ICU, was developed by Open Medical founder and orthopedic registrar Harry Lykostratis.
Harry like many other doctors was reassigned during the pandemic and he adapted a similar tool to manage orthopaedic patients, to create the software to be used to manage COVID-19 patients.
Tariq Husain, Clinical Lead for Intensive Care at LNWH, said “It’s been an incredibly helpful tool for us born out of crisis and will almost certainly continue to be used within Intensive Care when the current COVID-19 pandemic ends.”
“The past two months has been the most extraordinary in my medical career and the sheer volume of critically ill patients we’ve been dealing with makes tracking patients quickly and efficiently invaluable.”
The tool was developed in two weeks to support the hospital. It allows large numbers of patients to be tracked and reviewed with up-to-date handover information immediately available to clinical staff during shift changes. It also has the ability to group patients into cohorts based on changes in their condition.
