Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust Implements Alcidion's Miya Precision Platform to Enhance Bed Management and Patient Flow
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The developments mean SPARK TSL can offer trusts a unique digital platform to accelerate the adoption of innovation and deliver quantifiable improvements in operational efficiency and patient education and engagement.
Shane Tickell has been working in the health tech industry since the late 1990s. He is probably best known for his long career at IMS MAXIMS, where he worked for 13-years, predominantly as group chief executive officer. However, he left IMS MAXIMS four-years ago "to pursue a wider agenda."
The trust, which serves a catchment of 800,000 patients in North Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire, found itself with two LIMS when it was formed out of the merger of Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals and Hinchingbrooke Health Care in 2017.
Effective management of a patient’s journey requires a systemwide approach, from specialist referrals to inpatient admissions through to discharge. Key to this improvement is making data easily accessible and mobile, engaging clinicians, and predicting bottlenecks in the system.
The deployment has shown that NHS patient imaging can be efficiently accessed from a secure public cloud environment, just as quickly as when data is stored on-premise.