Health Tech Awards 2021 Finalist1 Oct 2021 00:19
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Health Tech Awards 2021 Finalists: Excellence in Engagement and Communications
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Feedback PLC
Feedback’s flagship imaging-based clinical communications platform, Bleepa®, is focused on improving patient care by enabling clinicians to communicate quickly and securely, at the ‘touch of a button’. Its clinical messaging app allows medical staff to securely view and discuss high-quality medical grade images on mobile devices.
It enables remote and secure communications between clinicians and teams, and is a CE and UKCA Marked digital medical imaging communications tool which provides flexible access on the go for what it calls a ‘rapidly evolving workforce’.
According to the company, it is also the only regulated platform on the NHSx Clinical Communications Framework, and equips frontline teams with the ability to share patient images such as X-ray, CT, MRI or ultrasound at a standard approved for clinical use, alongside instant-messaging-based case discussion and video calls to support decision-making for safer patient care.
A photo-capture module enables clinicians to acquire clinical images of patients, such as in-field medical photographs of skin lesions, and document capture is used for additional patient information, ECG and blood test results within the patient record. Bleepa can also facilitate clinical referrals and treatment decisions within a hospital, between hospitals and pan-regionally for networked care and smoother and swifter transfer from one medical team to another. Ultimately, it aims to link clinicians, frontline staff and patients, instantly and safely – from anywhere, and was added to the Department for International Trade’s First 100 UK Digital Health Companies Playbook, for fast evolving and pioneering Digital Health companies.
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust used Bleepa’s ability to enable remote working and streamline referral processes, saving 36.3 weeks annually per clinician and reducing the referral time from 7.4 days to under one day. The contract has since been expanded to cover 10 specialties within the hospital and has potential for use across the trust. Bleepa has also won contracts at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.