Respiratory pathway

Creating ways for patients to receive virtual advice easily. Consultations can be triaged and queries and prescriptions can be managed remotely.

• Empowering Cambridge patients through digital access to their health information
• Digital service to manage high-risk chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients

Early access to diagnostics and advice for primary care: support for staff with quick advice using advanced communication tools and image sharing.

• Using digital tools to facilitate periodic reviews of patients with long term conditions
• Using technology to improve engagement with patients in primary care
• Remote monitoring and virtual clinic for patients with respiratory conditions
• Remote monitoring of respiratory patients through a digital telehealth platform
• Digitally-enhanced medicines optimisation for people with COPD
• Use of a digital tool to support and optimise high-risk asthma patients
• A new respiratory model for primary care
• Maximising clinical resource with digital remote monitoring

Remote reporting on diagnostics (including AI-enhanced diagnostics): shared care records and diagnostic networks that support sharing of patient information.

• Using digital tools to facilitate periodic reviews of patients with long term conditions
• Using technology to improve engagement with patients in primary care
• Remote monitoring and virtual clinic for patients with respiratory conditions
• Remote monitoring of respiratory patients through a digital telehealth platform
• Using remote technology to monitor patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Maximising clinical resource with digital remote monitoring
  

Streamlined digital pathways, including booking appointments and messaging of clinical teams through portals and remote platforms.

• Empowering Cambridge patients through digital access to their health information
• A messaging app that allows clinicians to communicate securely
• Using remote technology to monitor patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• A telehealth system using text messages
• Digital service to manage high-risk chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients
• Remote monitoring for virtual clinics and shared care in paediatric cystic fibrosis
• Implementation of a computer-guided consultation in the Liverpool Sleep Service

Inpatient stay, including virtual tests and pre-operative assessments, supplemented by patient reported outcome measures.

• A messaging app that allows clinicians to communicate securely

Ongoing monitoring, including platforms that support monitoring long term conditions and vital signs at home and the use of digital rehabilitation.

• Using digital tools to facilitate periodic reviews of patients with long term conditions
• Using technology to improve engagement with patients in primary care
• Remote monitoring of respiratory patients through a digital telehealth platform
• Using remote technology to monitor patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• A telehealth system using text messages
• Digitally enhanced pulmonary rehabilitation
• Maximising clinical resource with digital remote monitoring
• Digitisation of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in pulmonary rehabilitation
• Using technology to reduce chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) and asthma readmissions
• Digital service to manage high-risk chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients
• Remote monitoring for virtual clinics and shared care in paediatric cystic fibrosis
  

Supported self-monitoring, including health and wellbeing overseen by the patient with support from digital tools and easy access to advice when necessary.

• Empowering Cambridge patients through digital access to their health information
• Remote monitoring and virtual clinic for patients with respiratory conditions
• A telehealth system using text messages
• Digitally-enhanced medicines optimisation for people with COPD
• Digital service to manage high-risk chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients
• Remote monitoring for virtual clinics and shared care in paediatric cystic fibrosis

Digital ways to support patients booked for a PIFU appointment using agreed criteria

• Remote monitoring and virtual clinic for patients with respiratory conditions
• A telehealth system using text messages
• Digital service to manage high-risk chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients

End of life care, including tools to support advance care planning, symptom management and effective psychological support for patients, carers and families

Digital service to manage high-risk chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients