Infinity Health’s Head of Projects, Alice Goodwin, shares how she supported the design of Infinity for Patient Flow. We discuss how her NHS experience informed how Infinity tackled the longstanding obstacles in a patient’s journey through a hospital.

Digitising patient flow management can help hospitals to coordinate care for patients more efficiently and increase bed capacity. In this Health Tech World piece, Dr Jo Garland, Clinical Director, explains why it is futile implementing a tool that tracks patients, beds, and discharges, if it doesn’t drill down to the tasks that need to be completed.

More patients than ever are waiting for hospital treatment. There is a huge burden of administrative and time-consuming processes reducing time spent on direct patient care. Dr Jo Garland explains what a task is and why every NHS staff member should have access to a device that helps to manage them, opening capacity to see more patients.

Delayed discharge from hospital of medically fit patients slows their recovery, makes it harder to admit new patients, leads to ambulance queues outside A&E departments, and puts additional pressure on staff. Dr Barry Henley explains what he thinks is needed to speed up hospital discharge.

Neighbourhood Teams are an effective way of supporting patients to manage their conditions or recover at home. Dr Jo Garland discusses why they need the right tools from the start to make it a success for patients and staff.

Bleeps have been in use for decades to alert clinicians to an action needed. They are sturdy, reliable, and don’t need WiFi. The problem is that they are an outdated and inefficient solution for non-emergency situations. Dr Jo Garland speaks to Health Tech World about the alternative.

Bleeps have been in use in the NHS for decades and regularly feature in both urgent and non-urgent hospital situations. Dr Jo Garland explains why they are inefficient and unsafe and what should replace them.