St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has implemented a Trust-wide patient monitoring solution with the aim of improving patient care, while speeding up work flows and delivering efficiency savings.
SUZANNE CALLANDER reports on the experiences encountered by clinicians at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust relating to the introduction of a Trust-wide patient monitoring solution which is helping improve patient care and efficiencies.
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest hospital and community health service providers in the UK and has been one of the first to implement a Trust-wide patient monitoring system which works within the hospital’s existing IT network. The system is designed to support improved clinical decisionmaking and help hospital staff to monitor changes in a patient’s condition more quickly and effectively.
Commenting on the system, David Tropman, patient monitoring project manager from St George’s Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department, said: “The new monitoring system has been successfully deployed across all areas of the hospital requiring multi-parameter patient monitoring which includes 30 operating theatres and 65 intensive care beds. This new system will enable continuous monitoring throughout a patient’s stay and thereby help clinicians to more rapidly identify any important changes in a patient’s vital signs. The connectivity of the new system also enables clinicians to review patients’ data anywhere in the hospital from wherever they are and also from their home computers via a secure connection, in near real-time.” It is hoped that the system will also provide efficiency savings and speed-up workflows.
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