Designed for your IT infrastructure
Patientrack has been designed from the outset as a highly modular and scalable application using a web services architecture. It has been designed to be deployed across a wide variety of ICT infrastructures using a variety of user devices (via browser interface) and to integrate with other systems via standards based interfaces. The use of ubiquitous web and mobile technology provides nurses and doctors with familiar easy to use devices with which to interact with Patientrack and each other in a highly collaborative way.
Patientrack deploys technology with a “light touch”, using it to automate and facilitate only those aspects of patient care that can benefit from its use while leaving in place those essentially human elements of patient care which are fundamental to ensuring the best patient experience and outcome.
Commonly recorded ward observations are captured through bedside laptop computers, hand-held PDAs or existing systems. Patientrack’s unique risk algorithms detect data and data combinations that require an alert to be raised. Graded alerts are delivered using existing pager or hospital wireless network devices. If a doctor or nurse receiving an alert is unable to respond, the alert is sent to the next most appropriate doctor until there is a response and attendance – termed “the chain of response” by UK standards body NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence)
Patientrack’s rules and alerting engines are configurable to reflect both the variations required for different care settings, and also each hospital’s risk profile, standard of care, resources and scale, and the implementation methodology takes into account the special requirements of the hospital ward environment.
In addition to providing a real-time safety network, Patientrack builds a rich database that can be used for clinical audit, continuous improvement and research within each hospital where it is used.
Patientrack does not seek to instruct physicians on treatment options. It automatically alerts medical staff to the fact that a patient needs assistance.
Patientrack integrates with existing systems, typically the hospital Patient Administration System (PAS) and Paging System to eliminate duplication of tasks such as the input of basic patient details and to maximise the level of automation in the assessment and alerting process to minimise the opportunities for human error.
