The latest Digital Health industry news round-up features news Chelsea and Westminster has deployed an app to help patients navigate the hospital.
Chelsea and Westminster team up with BuzzStreets
BuzzStreets and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are launching a unique indoor way-finder for hospitals to help patients and their families navigate their way around more easily.
It is also aimed to reduce staff time spent giving directions, help ensure patients arrive on time for appointments, reduce stress, and minimise traffic in the corridors.
The new app is part of the CW Innovation programme – a joint initiative between Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its charity CW+. After a successful trial, the new system, created by BuzzStreets, allows visitors to Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London to navigate their way from outside all the way to the specific location they need, whether that’s a bed on a ward, a consulting room, the café, or the pharmacy.
The app includes points of interest such as offices, cafeterias and, uniquely, more information about the trust’s collection of over 2,000 works of art and digital installations that transform the hospital environment for patients, families, volunteers and staff.
Vanessa Sloane, deputy chief nurse at the trust, said: “The pilot project has already shown that the app reduces frustration for staff and visitors alike. It helps reduce the anxiety of patients and visitors trying to find their way in the hospital, which previously required contact with multiple different staff.
“Overall, we’ve seen that the app helps save resources, improve patient outcomes, and enhances the entire hospital experience for patients and their families.”
Black Country Pathology Services teams up with CliniSys
Black Country Pathology Services has worked with CliniSys to create the ICE [Integrated Clinical Environment] Portal, a web-based application that makes it easy for care homes, or other community care settings, to be able to order lab based Covid-19 tests and see the results.
The pathology network has also drawn up plans with the company to continue development work on the ICE Portal, so it is ready for future health emergencies and can be used by other health and care services that need to order tests but can’t use existing networks and IT systems.
Manx Baker, programme manager, said: “When the pandemic arrived, it soon became apparent that pathology services across the country were not set-up to test people who are being cared for outside our family of NHS services.
“We called CliniSys and said ‘we need a website that care homes can use to order tests that sends the details straight into our systems’ – and we worked in partnership with them to create the ICE Portal.
“Although the pandemic is reducing in the UK, we will continue to…
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