Technology that is alerting doctors and nurses to acutely ill patients in hospitals so that clinical staff can intervene early and prevent people in their care from coming to harm, is to be demonstrated live at London's Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology (HETT) Expo in September.
Delegates from across the UK's different health and care settings will attend the event, where they will hear how forward-thinking NHS hospitals are improving care as a result of clinicians making innovative use of Patientrack, a technology that is being used to help tackle life threatening conditions such as sepsis, acute kidney injury (AKI) and other serious illnesses.
The early warning system is in place at a growing number of NHS hospitals, where doctors and nurses have proven its effectiveness in reducing harm and adverse events, using the technology for timely electronic observations, automatic escalations, alerting and more.
Real innovation is now taking place with the technology where UK clinicians are taking their own leading-edge research and combining it with the Patientrack system in order to address national clinical priorities.
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, for example, has seen specialist consultants combine their clinical research with Patientrack in order to produce a system that predicts AKI and alerts clinicians to patients at risk of the devastating condition, linked with 100,000 deaths in England's hospitals each year.
Donald Kennedy, managing director at Patientrack, said: "Clinicians and technology providers really can prevent avoidable harm through collaboration. It is fantastic that we are getting the chance to help hospitals do more and more of this, so that the NHS can deliver safer care environments, where nurses and doctors have the tools they need to identify patients at risk of deterioration and intervene early.
"More than ever clinical staff are willing to embrace technology in order to improve care and we look forward to meeting people from across different health and social care settings at HETT to see how we can help them spread patient safety innovation even further."
HETT Expo 2015, which is the largest, one-day healthcare technology event in the NHS calendar, will take place on 30th September at Olympia London. To arrange a one to one demonstration of the Patientrack technology contact Tim Sisson - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in advance or visit stand H280.
About Patientrack
Patientrack helps hospitals deliver safer care - which is also more cost-effective care - by ensuring observation and assessment protocols are carried out correctly and consistently, and by automatically calculating early warning scores and alerting clinicians when interventions are needed. Through early identification of deteriorating patients, and the promoting of necessary assessments, Patientrack helps hospitals meet national and local targets for improvements in patient safety, improving patient outcomes and supporting frontline staff, while at the same time cutting costs and reducing paper. Patientrack was developed in conjunction with health professionals and its effectiveness in delivering both patient safety and cost improvements has been proven in a peer-reviewed clinical journal.