The pressure on our NHS has never been more intense, with increasing demands being made
on already stretched resources.
However, digital innovation can now offer cost-effective solutions to this dilemma,
equipping clinicians with a modern working environment to transform the patient experience.
Reducing administrative tasks and improving staff wellbeing.
By introducing iterative improvements across the healthcare system, these add up to significant
transformation without the need for huge disruption.
To see what’s possible, let’s explore three scenarios:
an emergency department, a ward and the home environment.
By their very nature, Emergency Departments are highly stressful environments.
However, with digital innovation, you can reduce some of the pressure on ambulance crews,
clinicians and reception teams.
Speeding up patient flow and experience, cutting waiting times, and improving clinical outcomes.
Let’s take a look at what’s possible.
An ambulance arrives at the Emergency Department.
Critical patient data already entered by the ambulance crew
is automatically uploaded to the hospital system.
Enabling clinicians to see a complete picture of the patient’s condition and treatment,
without having to transfer written notes.
Ensuring patient data is available and secure at the point of care,
enabling faster and more accurate diagnosis and treatment.
A walk-in patient arrives at the Emergency Department.
Using a simple, intuitive screen, they enter their details and why they’ve come.
The system links this data to their existing patient records and shares it with the triage
team.
Helping them assign the appropriate priority.
Providing a faster, safer arrival experience.
Having suffered a suspected fracture, a patient attends the Radiology department for an MRI
Scan.
By using AI-enabled decision support tools, radiologists can now diagnose problems accurately,
first time around.
From simple breaks to complex compound injuries.
Helping them focus their time on high value tasks.
Reducing follow-up appointments.
Accelerating treatment pathways, and improving patient experience.
Effective management of hospital wards is key to optimizing patient flow.
Yet basic processes like asset tracking, bed management, even wayfinding, still pose significant
everyday challenges.
Digital innovation can save valuable time for your ward teams.
Reducing stress, giving them more time to spend with patients.
Let’s see what’s possible.
Locating hospital equipment, from drip stands and infusion pumps through to wheelchairs,
wastes valuable time for ward nurses.
Over two hours a week.
If it’s not screwed down, it goes missing...
However, by fitting RFID tags, assets can be located quickly and easily, from a single
screen.
Saving valuable time, improving care and patient flow.
Efficient bed allocation is an ongoing challenge.
Traditional whiteboards, updated manually by different team members, create errors,
frustrations and delays.
However, by presenting this information digitally, ward teams can now identify critical workflows
easily and quickly.
Linking location data to patient pathways, to ensure clinicians have complete, accurate
patient information.
The complex labyrinth of hospital corridors can be confusing for patients, visitors and
even for staff.
Now, by using an augmented reality phone app, they can get personalized directions.
Ensuring patients reach their appointments on time, without having to ask for help at
every corner.
Improving the hospital experience for everyone.
Digital innovation opens up exciting new possibilities for home-based working and patient treatment.
Enabling clinicians to work effectively from home where necessary,
while enabling earlier patient discharge, freeing up valuable hospital beds for critical
cases.
Driving efficiency and improving the patient experience.
Let’s take a look at what’s possible.
Rapid diagnosis from Radiologists can significantly accelerate effective treatment paths.
Radiologists can now analyze and report on scans from home,
avoiding the need to use hospital workstations.
Using fast, secure connections to share diagnostic information with their hospital colleagues,
in real time.
Enabling more flexibility for radiologists, a better work/life balance and faster diagnosis
for patients.
For many patients, their health conditions can be best managed from home.
Using sensor and AI technology, their vital signs can now be monitored remotely.
Alerting clinicians immediately where intervention is required.
Enabling patients to be sent home from hospital earlier,
freeing up valuable beds for more critical cases.
Locum and staff-bank rotations create challenges for all hospitals,
in particular during the six-monthly rotation of junior doctors.
Now, digital workflows can be used to upload key documentation from home, while also enabling
immediate, auditable access to critical hospital systems.
Avoiding disruption and delays, ensuring continuous patient care.
These solutions, from Fujitsu and our partners, are already being used by hospitals in the
UK and around the world.
Delivering immediate value while setting the foundations for long term transformation.
To explore how digital innovation can transform the lives of both your clinicians and your
patients,
we invite you to join a collaborative discussion with Fujitsu’s digital innovation and healthcare
specialists.
Helping you deliver the promise of productive, predictive, personalized healthcare.