Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has a agreed a 5 year deal with Alcidion, the patient company of Patientrack, to deploy its complete product set.
The agreement will see the trust deploy Alcidion’s Miya Precision platform, Smartpage healthcare messaging product, and Patientrack e-observation and early warning system in all wards across the trust.
Neil Perry, associate director of digital transformation at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust said “Following a competitive tender process, we are very pleased to be working with Alcidion to implement its product suite across our hospitals. Alcidion’s solutions are the right fit to help us meet our commitment to use digital technology to improve patient outcomes and share these improvements with other NHS trusts.”
“We believe the technology can empower our clinical staff to make informed decisions and focus on what they do best – deliver excellent patient care.”
The technology will support the trust with electronic patient observations, electronic paper charts, clinical assessments, clinical noting, patient flow, bed management, electronic discharge summaries for GPs and natural language processing (NLP) capability to take free text clinical narrative and code that into SNOMED.
Neil said “We will have real time clinical information to share into the Alliance’s Shared Care Record for when we refer emergency or elective patients. This should strengthen the Alliance’s ability to keep patients nearer to home, with the GSTT specialists able to better advise and inform Dartford and Gravesham clinicians on the best course of action based on the real-time data insights. We hope this will see fewer emergency transfers and more patients cared for locally.”
“The digitalisation of doctors’ noting is uncommon across the NHS; with Alcidion, this technology is built-in and makes achieving this goal a real possibility from initial clerking through to discharge summaries. Our surgeons and anaesthetists are keen to explore developing the solution for pre-operative, inter-operative and post-operative surgery with tight coupling to our ePresccribing and Medicines Administration system. We are in early discussions on the need for anaesthetic monitors integrations.”
Phillipa Wakefield, Dartford’s lead nurse informatics officer “We have seen the impressive results of Patientrack at other hospitals in helping to improve patient safety and clinical effectiveness. With the additional functionality of Alcidion, our nursing staff will have mobile technology that cuts the time they spend doing observations, escalations and assessments. It will also help us reduce unnecessary deterioration, through earlier interventions and improved alerting and communication”.
Alcidion’s UK General Manager, Donald Kennedy, said “Dartford and Gravesham is incredibly impressive in its digital health ambitions, and will become an important reference site as one of the pioneers of using real-time data and mobile devices to improve patient safety. We look forward to supporting the trust on its digital health journey.”
