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Reducing waiting time from diagnosis to plan of treatment at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital
Alkit Communications is the supplier of the distance spanning solution for sharing ultrasound sequences, images of radiotherapy and realtime videoconferencing. The Confero platform allows doctors and physicians to share not only realtime information but also different types of streamed multimedia information. All relevant patient information is accessible for the doctors at the department of cardiology at the Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital and Uppsala University Hospital. In the weekly conference a predefined list of patients is thoroughly screened by the specialists from the two hospitals and a plan of treatment is agreed upon. The solution utilizes cutting edge technologies from both areas of videoconferencing over networks and applicationsharing over distance.
SAMS
This project is focusing on the fact that many patients have visited several care and nursing units to get appropriate services for his/her whole health situation. The problem (which is a very common one) is that one unit does not know what the other unit is planning for the patient. The result is that the care quality for the patient will be very low.
The information has to be projected so that the patient can be put in the center. This means that when information about the patient is requested from one actor involved in the care of the patient all relevant planned events have to be accessed from several involved units in order to create an appropriate picture of the situation for that patient.
One other goal for this project is to promote team based care for the patient. This means that, when several professional groups are involved in the care and nursing activities for the patient, certain information elements can be common between the different professional groups. In that way observations and decisions concerning the patient can be made known for other members of the team and the quality and adequacy of the care and nursing actions for the patient will be better. There can also be a learning element between the team members. The knowledge of the different team members can be used in a better way.
MobiSams
The purpose of the MobiSams project is to explore how advanced home health care in co-operation with other health care units can set the patient in the centre, to develop cross professional care team oriented work procedures and making it possible to treat new patients in the home through the potentials of extended and mobile information systems and services.
Patients who are treated in the home get services from several care and nursing providers like the hospital, the community, the home health care unit, the primary care center, etc. This is a demanding situation where the different actions have to be co-ordinated so that the quality for the patient can reach a sufficient level. One important focus of the project is to make the information available in a mobile manner. This means that when a care providing professional wants to check which other visits are planned from other units for that specific patient, information from different units can be collected and the whole view of the patient´s situation be made available. Authorisation services are also provided by the component based platform.
The information system components also support team based care so that professionals of one category can see important information parts from other professional categories so that information about observations and decisions can be shared. This will lead to better care and nursing quality for the patient.
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