Digital Technology is key to helping Care Homes bolster Residents’ Safety & Protection by Tracy Williams May 22, 2020 May 22, 2020 451 Care homes across the UK have been trying to do everything they can to shield their residents during COVID-19, but the one thing they can’t afford to do is to compromise access to healthcare professionals and timely clinical intervention. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s new guidance calling for immediate steps to implement a clinical service model for remote care home support during the pandemic is key to continuing to safeguard patients. However, with only two weeks to implement a solution, care homes are arguably under even more pressure. And whilst video consultations are a step forward and can help support social distancing, more proactive care is required. Digital, remote monitoring healthcare technology, such as Spirit Digital’s CliniTouch Vie, is a proven and easy to implement platform that allows care home residents to be appropriately assessed on a regular basis. Assessments are done by Care Home carers taking patients’ vital signs readings and answering simple, straightforward questions side by side with the resident. CliniTouch Vie then uses sophisticated algorithms to give a risk assessment to the remote GP practice teams. Extending the concept of the care home to one akin to a ‘virtual ward’, GPs get clinical information on their patients quicker and faster which allows them to rapidly assess a patient, and respond at the outset of symptoms and before deterioration progresses. Moreover, having immediate access to a dashboard of live clinical data on a group of patients enables rapid identification and triage of those individuals most at risk. Armed with this key heath data, GPs and nursing teams can then chose whether to visit or video conference. This proactive model of care allows for early intervention that helps keep people out of hospital, increases health system capacity and reduces the risk of cross contamination at a time when our collective focus is on protecting our vulnerable and our NHS. CliniTouch VieCOVID-19NHS EnglandSpirit Health Grouptelehealth Share 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail Tracy Williams previous post Eyegaze gives life-limited and disabled children in hospices a chance to play next post 24 hour mental health support You may also like Challenges facing the custom orthotic design industry July 4, 2024 6 Autism stereotypes we need to overcome May 2, 2024 April 24, 2024 Public concern about the NHS soars as delays accessing A&E and GP... April 23, 2024 Spoken Announces Update and Plans for Autism Acceptance Month April 22, 2024 A third of Brits have difficulty accessing their GP. Local health reforms... April 19, 2024 Transform Healthcare Unveils 10-Point Transformation Plan Under New Leadership April 18, 2024 Coventry University leads UK-Indonesia initiative to increase disability inclusion in higher education April 17, 2024 PhD student aims to help save lives as autism research is included... April 16, 2024 Pioneering Spinal Health with Prof. Dr. Yunus Aydın’s Microdiscectomy and Spinal Canal... April 15, 2024 Leave a Comment Cancel Reply Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.