1/7/2024 0 Comments Chase paperless![]() She added: “The hospital was delivered on target and within budget – a tremendous achievement of which the entire team is very proud.”Īscom UK ensured its nurse call system was fully interoperable with technology from other suppliers at CFH, including GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Cerner and various app providers. The nurse call system linked to smartphones ensures they can contact anyone including patients directly and know what’s going on in their clinical area, even when they are elsewhere.” “With 42 single rooms we faced the challenge of making the ‘invisible’ patient visible and addressing our nurses’ key concern: that they might miss a serious clinical issue while attending to other tasks away from the patient. It meant we had genuine engagement with nurses and other stakeholders as we carefully planned the hospital from the start – taking in the views of estates, IT, domestic staff, porters, admin, allied health and medical staff. She said: “Crucially, the technology development work was done by clinicians instead of to clinicians. Leading the project was CFH chief executive and director of nursing, Natalie Forrest. Patients are more ‘visible’ to staff via speech software and monitoring of integrated medical devices from anywhere in the hospital. ![]() ![]() Bed turnaround time – up to 40 minutes per bed saved using domestic clinical workflow button, which ensures staff arrive more quickly.Theatre recovery throughput – saving up to 15 minutes per patient (average 30 procedures a day) in moving through recovery and back to the wards by more efficient and effective communications.Nurses can view and send audits at the touch of a button. Nurses saving up to 30 minutes a day each on audits, previously done manually, but now digitally via the Perfect Ward smartphone app.Shared information is recorded for use at any time. Virtual safety huddles – wards saving up to 45 minutes a day by doing them ‘virtually’, in 30 seconds, via group texting on smartphones.The model has just eight stages from 0-7.Ĭentral to the new hospital’s success is a sophisticated nurse call system, co-designed by nurses with Ascom, and integrated with the company’s Myco smartphones, to connect them to patients, colleagues and other technology across the hospital.Ĭlinicians are already realising key benefits: The global Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recently assessed CFH as having achieved stage 6 in the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), one of only three hospitals in the UK to reach this level of ‘paperless’ maturity. It has a range of interoperable technology – built in from the ground up – in its surgical ward with 50 beds, 42 of which are ensuite single patient rooms, eight theatres, day surgery, endoscopy, clinics and urgent care centre across five floors. The hospital, which is part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, opened last September. Chase Farm Hospital (CFH) in London – the UK’s first new-build ‘paperless’ hospital – has improved clinical safety and dramatically reduced admin, releasing more time for patient care, thanks to joined-up technology from Ascom UK.
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