OXFORD, UK - (HealthTech Wire / News) - RealTime Health Ltd (RealTime) and Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HWPH) have signed contracts for the Trust wide deployment of the RealTime patient flow solution. The risk sharing contract includes terms linking payments to achievement of a minimum 10% sustained reduction in the average patient length of stay (LoS) over a six month period.
- RealTime Health has signed contracts with Heatherwood and Wexham hospital trust for the Trust wide deployment of its patient flow solution
- The multiple award winning software system integrates with existing clinical and administrative systems and provides at a glance real time information to the entire care team
- “RealTime is the only system in the world designed from scratch to reduce length of stay. This is our focus, pure and simple.”
“RealTime is the only system in the world designed from scratch to reduce length of stay. This is our focus, pure and simple. And it’s all based on clinical best practice,” commented Jim Gabriel, CEO of RealTime Health. “Generally our customers achieve LoS reduction greatly in excess of 10% within only a few months of going live. We are delighted to be working with HWPH in this way - this is our second risk-share length of stay reduction project in the UK and the performance target that we have committed to is significant. These projects get everybody aligned and working together in the same direction. As suppliers we enjoy having ‘skin in the game’.”
The RealTime Health solution combines unique process change with a real time patient flow software system. RealTime clinical consultants will work with HWPH on a turnkey basis to rollout the process change methodology, which is based upon clinical use cases from several decades of work with North American and UK hospitals, throughout the Trust.
The multiple award winning software system integrates with existing HWPH clinical and administrative systems, avoiding any duplicate entry of information, and provides at a glance real time information to the whole team involved in each patient’s treatment and discharge from the hospital. HWPH will also be deploying the recently released and revolutionary RealTime Emergency Department patient flow module, extending the “at a glance” view of patient flow to the demanding emergency department environment.
A key requirement of the Trust was for a solution which could reduce length of stay as soon as possible. The RealTime solution will be go-live within 12 weeks of project commencement, delivering immediate cost reductions and improvements to patient care.
HWPH joins a rapidly growing number of NHS Trusts which are embracing the RealTime Health patient flow methodology and system, achieving reductions in average length of stay of between 10-30%, improving patient care and making dramatic financial savings. Other recent RealTime deployments include rollouts at North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust and North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.
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Source: HealthTech Wire
