Three partners, offering leading technology to improve care and patient safety and enhance patient experience.

In the final public enquiry report on failures at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, the public inquiry chair Robert Francis urged the NHS to make better use of technology to improve patient safety and efficiency of patient care. Specifically, recom- mendation 243 states:

“The recording of routine observations on the ward should, where possible, be done automatically as they are taken, with results being immediately accessible to all staff electronically in a form enabling progress to be monitored and interpreted.”

The open e-obs platform supports clinicians by automatically applying Trust policies to their work- flow in real-time. The company’s solution ensures that hospitals policies on capturing vital signs, early warning score (EWS), clinical responses and patient assessment protocols are fully implemented in many services within the same trust.

By using the MioCARE™ range of mobile devices the vital signs can be quickly captured at the patient bedside. This enables the real-time calculation of the EWS. The platform automatically triggers an alert with the relevant clinical teams, and will escalate and manage these alerts directly, if further action or intervention is needed.

This solution can provide complete clinical assess- ment and screenings for hospitals including VTE, sepsis, dementia, MRSA, fluid balance, in-dwelling devices and nutrition scores. It can support your local EWS protocols as well as national protocols, like NEWS. Senior Clinicians can easily configure local escalation rules for any of the assessments and screening workflows.

The prompt response to clinical change is proven to shorten the length of stay, reduce transfers with- in the hospitals and to the ICU. In conclusion, by identifying deteriorating patients and automatically escalating for clinical response, the open-eObs solution helps hospitals raise care standards, and deliver on national and local targets for improve- ments in care quality and patient safety.