Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital is one of the leading healthcare facilities in the region. Birmingham Women's hospital provides a range of specialist health care services to more than 50,000 women, men and families each year. As one of only two dedicated women’s hospitals in the UK, they deliver more than 8,200 babies a [...]
Clinician-Led Innovation Shaping the Future of Care
Skye Hammond2023-09-11T08:19:21+01:00The landscape of healthcare is swiftly reshaping through clinician-led innovation in digital health. This involves connecting patients remotely, aggregating data for enhanced outcomes, and automating essential clinical administrative tasks. The driving force behind the success of digital health isn't just technology; it's the synergy between innovation and clinical expertise. Clinicians stand [...]
Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Delayed Integration of AI in Healthcare
Skye Hammond2023-05-25T08:35:30+01:00The transformative power of AI is undeniable, revolutionising numerous industries across the globe. Interestingly, while AI has permeated various sectors, its adoption in the healthcare industry seems to lag behind. The question naturally arises: Why does this discrepancy exist? Let’s explore the factors contributing to the comparatively slower integration of AI in healthcare and [...]
The Two Killer Needs for the Future of Healthcare
Skye Hammond2023-04-13T13:28:02+01:00What is the real challenge? In the last few years, the challenge regarding data and information has shifted. Previously, the main challenge within healthcare was gathering data, as such, all information was recorded on paper, some was not written down, and inevitability this data was not accessible to all. The problem is now not gathering this data; [...]
ISH&W (Integrated System for Health and Work), powered by MediWork
Skye Hammond2023-03-24T10:27:49+00:00About ISH&W ISH&W (Information System for Health and Work) is a suite of applications built on a secure information technology platform, designed to deliver a wide range of occupational health services more effectively than ever. The ISH&W service has been designed in collaboration with Dr Nikki Cordell (specialist occupational physician and CEO of Cordell [...]
Unified Paediatric Advice and Guidance Service (UPAGS)
Skye Hammond2023-02-23T10:59:43+00:00Overview of Challenge Birmingham Children’s Hospital Kids Intensive Care and Decision Support (KIDS) have been using Kinseed's MediLog application as their Electronic Patient Record System for a number of years. As a result of this successful partnership, University Hospital Birmingham, together with Bsol ICS, wanted to develop a similar system to support a new [...]
A Revolutionary Occupational Health Solution
Skye Hammond2023-03-15T11:00:26+00:00Overview of the challenge The current global issues are contributing to employees needing increased time-off work due to sickness, informal care giving, and health-related productivity, with losses estimated to cost a staggering £100 billion annually (Public Health England, 2020). Poor mental health is costing employers up to £45 billion a year (Deloitte, 2020). These [...]
Getting on top of Clinical Resource Tracking
Skye Hammond2023-02-22T11:39:33+00:00Overview of the challenge Healthcare is a complex and fast paced environment, therefore robust tracking and allocation of resources is highly important to keep up with the ever-growing demands. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of optimizing resources efficiently. However, as demands increase, resources remain limited and unsteady. One of the biggest challenges in [...]
Case Study – Creative Interruptions
Josh Knight2023-02-22T10:19:22+00:00Overview of the challenge In 2016, a group of five universities and a number of non-university based collaborators came together to explore the role of arts and creativity within diverse communities. The three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research project focussed on how marginalised communities use the arts, media and creativity to [...]
Case Study – Children’s Acute Transport Service
Josh Knight2023-02-22T11:12:05+00:00Overview of the challenge The Children's Acute Transport Service (The CATS team) are a retrieval team within the NHS, based at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in Central London. The team work year-round to provide transport services to sick children who are referred to or from critical care services around the country - at [...]