NHS Lanarkshire is to deploy Alcidion’s early warning system to support its acute and community providers.
The early warning system is being introduced to help doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to quickly identify when patients are at risk of deterioration.
The Health Board has signed a five year contract with the supplier, following a successful pilot at University Hospital Monklands. The announcement follows a successful implementation of the solution at NHS Fife that we reported in April; the system will be rolled out across NHS Fife to 1,300 beds.
The Patientrack system was trialled at the Operational Command Centre at University Hospital Monklands, where large-scale screens show staff the status of each patient throughout the hospital.
It will now be rolled-out to NHS Lanarkshire’s communities, health centres, clinics and at three district general hospitals – University Hospital Hairmyres, University Hospital Monklands and University Hospital Wishaw.
Donald Wilson, NHS Lanarkshire’s director of information and digital technology, said: “This implementation of Patientrack will expand on what we have learned from the Monklands digital hospital initiative and its links to the command centre we have established at the current site.”
Kate Quirke, Managing Director, Alcidion Group, said: “Supporting the delivery of NHS Lanarkshire’s clinical and technology strategy is an important opportunity for Alcidion.”
“The NHS is a core focus for Alcidion globally, and Scotland is an important part of that focus as we work to help hospitals advance patient safety and to use technology to make the right thing to do the easiest thing to do.”
The company now plans to launch a new technology into the NHS during 2020 in order to provide the options around integrating and realising value from existing IT, and in embracing modern technologies that can automate thousands of routine processes and care plans currently manually delivered by doctors and nurses.
