It will follow the patient pathway; from initial contact with an NHS member of staff (such as their GP), through to referral, primary treatment and support from social care services. With an enviable panel of experts leading the discussion, this SIG will address the issues surrounding the remote monitoring of carers and how that maps onto the technical world with a focus on clinical improvement and patient support, safety and confidentiality.
This event will focus on the route that a patient will take from their first contact with an NHS member of staff (such as their GP), through to referral, completion of their primary treatment and ongoing support from social care services.
Presentations will cover:
Presentations will cover:
- Something’s wrong with me! – The GP front line and how mobile wireless technology can be used to facilitate chronic disease diagnosis and on going management within the new NHS
- Fix me and discharge me - The electronic health record and the connected hospital
- Is this treatment working? - Patient monitoring with implantable devices
- Who’s going to help me afterwards? - Connected social care
The first presentation will highlight how wireless and mobile technologies are being used by GPs in assisting the early identification of chronic disease and helping to strengthen the patient-GP relationship for ongoing disease management. Key considerations will evolve around understanding how your local doctor can access and implement these technologies to provide vital early clinical data and help speed up the referral process.
Following hospital admission, the patient's EHR is required to be easily accessible to authorised staff. This next talk will focus on how the ‘connected hospital’ facilitates access to the EHR to improve quality, safety and speed of treatment. Taking learning from prior hospital implementation pitfalls, this important presentation will outline how all data, from nurses’ notes to lab tests and consultation, may be stored, displayed, consumed and updated with total reliability and efficiency.
Following hospital admission, the patient's EHR is required to be easily accessible to authorised staff. This next talk will focus on how the ‘connected hospital’ facilitates access to the EHR to improve quality, safety and speed of treatment. Taking learning from prior hospital implementation pitfalls, this important presentation will outline how all data, from nurses’ notes to lab tests and consultation, may be stored, displayed, consumed and updated with total reliability and efficiency.
Implantable technologies have great scope for long-term management of chronic disease because they provide accurate and bespoke data gathered wirelessly from devises buried in the body; and crucially how this information can provide a tailored solution to the patient and healthcare provider. This innovative talk will demonstrate how a particular disease, once diagnosed, has the potential to be better managed following the fitting of a simple electronic implantable device.
Finally, following on from the thought-provoking theme of the last event covering the opportunities and challenges of care in the community, it is increasingly important for the 3rd sector and social services to provide ongoing support of patients with chronic illness. This next talk will consider how social care is supporting patients, outlining the challenges and where technologies are currently being used, how they go some way to assist, but may not yet provide the entire solution.
Speakers for this Healthcare SIG event:
- 'Encouraging Adoption of New Patient Pathways' - Charles Lowe, President-elect, Telemedicine & eHealth Section, Royal Society of Medicine
- 'A Single Version of the Truth' - Keith Swinburne, Programme Director of the ehealth Project, Papworth Hospital
- 'Involving Patients in their Own Healthcare - What Lies Ahead?' - Dr Afzal Chaudhry, Consultant Nephrologist & Clinical Lead for IT, CUH
- 'Conventional and Cloud-Based Monitoring of the Heart Beat' - Dr Andrew Grace, Consultant Cardiologist, Papworth Hospital and the University of Cambridge
- 'The Challenges of Managing Patients Outside the Surgery: A GP's Story' - Dr Rachel Morris, Assistant Director of GP Studies at University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
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'Technology Care on the Cheap: How can Mainstream and Specialised Technology Solutions be Used to Support People?' - Steve Barnard, Strategic Director of Innovation, Hft
We are also extremely grateful to our partners; IET, Cambridge Biomedical Campus and the Eastern Academic Health Science Network for supporting this event.
This event is FREE to members of Cambridge Wireless and people working in the NHS or CUHP. Tickets for non-members are £155 plus VAT. To join Cambridge Wireless as a member and attend future events for free, please visit: www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/sign-up
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