Introduction
A large proportion of NHS critical care services rely on paper-based systems for the recording and management of clinically sensitive patient data such as observations, monitoring device recordings and laboratory test results. Paper systems, such as each patient’s flowsheet, are labour intensive, prone to human error and do not always reflect the current clinical status of a patient due to delays in the recording of information. Fundamentally, these paper systems reduce the amount of clinical time a patient receives from the health care team and can reduce their effectiveness in treating a patient.
The Picis critical care IT solution has a proven track record in delivering significant benefits in helping clinicians to improve patient safety and clinical outcomes whilst reducing, and in many instances completely removing, the administrative overhead associated with paper-based systems. In summary, it enables the critical care team to spend more of their time caring for their patients.
“We’re all being challenged to do more with less in the NHS, but clearly within the acute-care areas of hospitals, we cannot and will not take risks with patient safety,” states Andrew Morris, who has been Chief Executive of Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for the last twelve years. “The Picis software is delivering on both of its promises, helping us to boost efficiency and performance, and helping us to drive up our standards of care. Of all the computer applications we’ve implemented here at Frimley Park Hospital, this has been the most successful.”
Doing More with Less
Picis has a proven track record in helping critical care teams to improve the quality and efficiency of the service they provide by:
- Enabling clinicians to dedicate more time to clinical duties – it is estimated that up to 40% of a critical care nurse’s time can be spent completing paper documentation
- Helping support clinicians to make pro-active decisions with Picis InSight Critical Care™ to reduce health complications such as nosocomial infections
- Streamlining operational and clinical workflows
- Improving visibility of service performance
Benefits
- Helps clinicians improve patient safety – supports the CCU team in the delivery of safer healthcare practice
- Helps clinicians improve clinical effectiveness – supports appropriate and pre-emptive decision making (c. 23% reduction in mortality referenced in the 2008 Leapfrog Group survey results)
- Improves cost control – provides visibility and management of clinical activity and performance (c. 16% reduction in patient length of stay)
- Increases clinical activity – reduces paper overhead while freeing administration time for clinical care (c. reduction of 2 hours per shift in paperwork)
- Protects existing investment – provides device and systems agnostic integration with existing clinical and technical infrastructure
Return on Investment
The efficiency savings illustrated below highlight the potential economic benefits of implementing the Picis critical care information solution. We would welcome the opportunity to produce a profile based on parameters that reflect your Trust.
Savings based on parameters including:
- 40 critical care beds
- 700 admissions per year
- Average LOS of 14 days
Delivering Your Solution
Our / Picis partnership offers a world class best-of-breed solution for Critical Care in the UK. We offer a proven solutions based approach to ensure what we deliver meets the local needs of our customers and their patients.
Our customer projects are supported by UK based and global teams with considerable experience in the design, production, implementation and support of IT solutions for critical care that deliver real service improvements.
We are committed to working with our customers to forge a long-term partnership to ensure our critical care solution meets your needs today and evolves to meet those of the future.
For any enquiries please email uki.info@isofthealth.com