Isansys Lifecare has partnered with Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Isansys Lifecare has partnered with Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust as part of a trial to reduce pressures on the healthcare system and support home patient monitoring.

As part of a new research trial, the collaboration will witness Alder Hey use the Patient Status Engine wireless patient monitoring system, led by its iDigital department and community division.

Clinicians at Alder Hey will be able to monitor young patients at home as if they were in the hospital, sending vital signs to a central monitoring station or mobile devices twenty-four hours a day, and eventually merging this information into the electronic medical record system. Clinicians and community care teams can use this information to create individualised care plans for young patients at home, avoiding the stress and disruption of a hospital visit or readmission.

The PSE is a wireless patient monitoring platform with unobtrusive wearable sensors that allow clinicians to oversee hospital patients and at-home patients by accumulating physiological data, including heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, and body temperature in live time. This data is analysed in real-time, and intelligent alarms and early warnings are sent to care teams in the hospital or in the community. This data allows for quicker and more definite decision-making, allowing for earlier and potentially simpler actions. Knowing when a patient requires on-site assistance and when they do not is an effective approach for the care team to reduce stress.

Head of nursing community and mental health division at the Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Carol Rowlands, stated: “We are very excited to be teaming up with Isansys to deliver a first-of-its-kind technological solution that will enable our clinicians to safely monitor patients remotely, collecting data around the clock for timely intervention. Our patients and families will benefit from being in the comfort of their own homes with the assurance that our clinicians are regularly reviewing the data and being alerted if any vital signs are out of the ordinary.”