North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has been presented with two prestigious awards which recognise its commitment to developing and using innovative technology to support patients.
The awards celebrate the very best in health technology innovation with one award recognising the state-of-the-art monitoring of patients with heart failure in their own home and the other in revolutionising the patient record process.
Health Tech Digital Awards
The Trust was named the winner of two Health Tech Digital Awards in the categories of Best Remote Monitoring solution and Best Use of Technology (Acute Care) at the annual Health Tech Awards.
Best Remote Monitoring solution highlighted the innovative Hospital at Home initiative which delivers the care and services of a hospital to patients with heart failure in their own home. The solution, developed by NHS Health Call, brings the hospital, integrated single point of access, and Home First teams together on a digital platform called Virtual Care
Virtual Care allows for close monitoring of a patient’s condition at home, improves hospital discharges, reduces emergency admissions and streamlines and improves personalised care for each patient.
The use of secure, electronic patient records as a direct replacement for paper-based records was recognised by winning the Best Use of Technology (Acute Care) award. This has reduced reliance on less-effective paper-based systems and provides a complete picture of a patient’s journey from admission to discharge.
Incredible!
Ken Anderson, group chief information and technology officer for University Hospitals Tees, the partnership of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Winning one Health Tech Award is amazing but two is just incredible!
“What I think these successes truly highlight is how well our various services work together for the good of our patients. This wasn’t a tech team working in isolation – it was a group effort of clinicians, nurses, allied health professionals, information technology experts and more all working with each other.
“All the teams pulled together, working long hours alongside each other to develop these technical solutions to ensure our patients have only the best care.
“Patient care is at the centre of everything we do, regardless of our individual roles.
“We are all here for our patients.”
The two awards illustrate the continuous journey of using technology to enhance and improve patient experience at University Hospitals Tees.