Comtact Healthcare, a leading provider in mobile digital healthcare and informatics solutions has been selected by respiratory experts at Southampton Children’s Hospital to provide clinicians with a leading-edge mobile device solution at the point of care.
The hospital, which is a leading centre in the treatment of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD), has taken a major step in improving the quality and efficiency of treatment for its patients by engaging Carbon Labs, the software division of Comtact Healthcare.
Carbon Forms will provide a real-time clinician view; a patient timeline and PCD Data Recording using a very easy to use set of applications on a mobile tablet device. Recording and retrieving real-time data will provide significant efficiencies and a quick and significant ROI, whilst supporting a greatly enhanced patient experience.
Southampton is one of three centres commissioned to provide a national diagnostic service for PCD in England and Scotland and clinicians are working with Carbon Labs to deliver the solution within the service and at three further NHS hospital trusts in the UK.
In line with the Government's paperless initiative, Southampton PCD team is helping lead the way in digitising forms and processes. Professor Jane Lucas, a consultant paediatric respiratory medicine at Southampton Children's Hospital, comments: "The Carbon Labs solution will provide accurate, quality information at the point of care, allowing our clinicians to spend more time with patients. The carefully designed forms support simple and fast user adoption that will also increase efficiencies that we have never been able to previously achieve."
"We're delighted to be working with a leading children's hospital on this project," comments Dominic List, Chairman of Comtact Healthcare. "Our Carbon Labs platform is well suited to the ambitions of the service, offering innovative, simple to use, real-time digitised patient care forms that support the goal of paperless working by 2018."
Dominic continues, "For the majority of our healthcare customers, having mobile digitised solutions in place makes particular sense, as they can also scale and replicate to other partner trusts. Together they create a collaborative platform, able to provide clinical support for similar conditions."
Carbon Labs is an affordable, configurable suite of digital applications specifically for the healthcare sector that provides very significant ROI, typically £300,000 pa per digitised process, increased efficiencies, greater accuracy of data and information and a much enhanced patient experience.
About Southampton Children's Hospital
Southampton Children's Hospital is a major centre for specialist paediatric services in the south of England. It is part of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, which provides services to 1.9 million people living in Southampton and south Hampshire, plus specialist services including neurosciences, cardiac services and children's intensive care to more than 3.7 million people in central southern England and the Channel Islands. The Trust is also a major centre for teaching and research in association with the University of Southampton and partners including the Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust.
About Comtact Healthcare & Carbon Labs
Having worked in the NHS we understand the healthcare sector is unique and how software needs to perform in a clinical environment.
Comtact Healthcare's digital mobile platform offers healthcare professionals an opportunity to convert time wasted through unproductive tasks into more time to care for patients. Through our software division Carbon Labs, we offer clear but powerful design allowing ease of use and adoption across our portfolio of digital mobile healthcare solutions. The user experience can be highly personalised and is effective in providing clinicians real-time information and reporting at the point of care, improving patient self-management rates and increasing overall patient experience and care for all.