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Frimley Park Hospital boosts efficiency and safety with surgical and
critical care software
12 January 2010
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey has
installed the Picis integrated surgical, anaesthesia, recovery room and
critical care software solutions.
The system allows staff to capture all relevant clinical and
administrative data automatically as patients enter and pass through the
preoperative, intraoperative, postoperative and critical care
environments of the hospital.
It is designed to help Frimley optimise the use of nursing staff,
supplies and operating theatre schedules as well as the clinical care
process; and its analytics tools will allow performance over time to be
measured and understood, thus contributing to advances in best practice.
“We’re delighted with what this solution does. Picis software
performs precisely as they claim it does,” said Andrew Morris, Chief
Executive of Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
“Our clinical team is genuinely excited by how it helps us improve
efficiency and patient safety, as it brings order to the entire care
pathway. Picis has delivered on what it promised, within the timescales
agreed. Over the next few months we expect to see the system delivering
its full potential, adding value within the organisation and improving
the service we provide to patients.”
Loua Shaikh MD, Consultant Anaesthetist/Intensivist at the Trust
said, “Picis software can help us to manage resources more effectively
than ever before in the most critical areas of the hospital. It makes it
far easier for clinical teams to access information and manage data, and
is a superb example of how the appropriate use of information technology
can help physicians improve clinical practice.”
“NHS IT is under the microscope like never before. Every investment
needs to demonstrate a strong return,” said Liz Popovich, Co-founder and
Executive Vice President of International Operations at Picis. “The
implementation has gone extremely well, and over the coming months
management, staff and patients at Frimley Park can expect to see the
kind of benefits that only a specialized information management system
can help bring to high-acuity care areas of the hospital.”
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