Speaking about the announcement, co-founder of Isansys Rebecca Weir said: "Receiving these awards is a real endorsement from the NHS, and the decision makers within the NHS, of our platform solution. Whilst already in use in a number of clinical environments, the Patient Status Engine platform has the capacity to be adapted into a range of applications. We are thrilled to be exploring these with the aid of the NHS and SBRI Healthcare."
Funded by NHS England, the Small Business Research Initiative for Healthcare (SBRI Healthcare) seeks to explore new alternatives to current known practice, with the intention of addressing ongoing difficulties in the healthcare system. The development contracts cover a six month period, to prove feasibility before being expanded to full development and delivery contracts of 18 months.
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About Patient Safety:
The cost to the NHS of patient safety-related issues has been estimated at Pounds2 billion in additional bed days alone that resulted from 850,000 reported in-hospital adverse events. In addition Secretary of Health Jeremy Hunt speaking at a press conference this week disclosed that the NHS is also paying out another Pounds1 billion a year in patient safety related compensation claims. When all the costs arising from patient safety related issues are taken into account the total amount is around Pounds5 billion, close to 5% of the NHS budget. Clinicians and nurses in NHS hospitals in London and Birmingham are currently using Isansys wireless patient monitoring platform (the Patient Status Engine) to continuously collect and analyse patient vital sign data to provide early warning notifications to help them improve the safety of the patients in their care and avoid the largely unnecessary costs of dealing with patient safety related issues.
About Sepsis:
Around a third of the 125,000 chemotherapy patients treated each year in the UK have a high susceptibility to infection and approximately 20,000 will unknowingly deteriorate at home as a result of sepsis, requiring emergency readmission to hospital. Sepsis, often referred to as either blood poisoning or septicaemia, is a serious and life-threatening condition caused by the body overreacting to an infection. A major problem across many clinical areas, sepsis accounts for 100,000 hospital admissions a year in the UK and is the cause of 37,000 deaths.
