Healthcare IT product innovation

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Reducing length of stay in acute hospitals using RealTime - RealTime Health

RealTime Health helps the NHS to reduce length of stay and improve patient care in acute hospitals, by using a clinical process improvement methodology backed up by the RealTime patient flow management and decision support software product. The methodology has been developed in the US by senior clinicians and rolled out over 20 years.

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O2 Health and NHS Western Isles working Side by Side - O2 Health

Side by Side is a collaborative working tool that provides a video and voice links between clinicians or between a clinician and patient. They can speak, see each other and share files such as MRIs, X-rays, or patient records, all using broadband. O2 Health and NHS Western Isles are working together to pilot SbS, because the health board has been looking to decrease the amount of time patients that patients wait to see appropriate specialists.

Scenario Generator Version 4.0 - SIMUL8 Corporation

Scenario Generator is a simulation software tool designed specifically for health and social care commissioners. The generator comes pre-loaded with data from the NHS Institute and POPPI and PANSI so commissioners can model entire health and social care systems and understand the most cost effective and efficient way to meet the needs of their populations.

QFeedback - EMIS and the University of Nottingham

The QFeedback practice portal enables practices to compare their own data with anonymised practices in their primary care trust, strategic health authority and the UK. Data is extracted via QSurveillance, which automatically collects anonymous patient data from GP surgeries across the UK on a daily basis, and so provides a real-time picture of disease rates and vaccination uptake.

Adastra End of Life Care Register - Advanced Health and Care

The Adastra End of Life Care Register enables healthcare professionals caring for patients nearing the end of their lives to record and share information using a secure, web-based application. It brings together key information - such as a patient's preferred place of death - and details of key contacts - such as their GP - and helps them to die more peacefully, with less medication.