Digitising the frontline in London

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Imperial College Healthcare and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust now use a single shared EPR system across seven hospitals with 20,000 staff and over two million patient contacts a year

Nursing staff routinely use mobile bedside monitoring devices to take patient observations including blood pressure, heart rate, temperature and oxygen saturation. This  information  is then captured into the patient record using wifi. This approach reduces the risk of error and increases patient safety by triggering alerts to highlight patient deterioration, and releases 23,000 hours of nursing time for care every year.

For more information on Imperial’s work read the full case study.