Open Medical has launched its Pathpoint platform at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH).
Pathpoint captures real-time granular structured clinical data which is integrated with the eRS national referral system to allow the trust’s clinicians to enhance the referral triage processes. This ensures patients are reviewed in a timely manner regardless of where in the country they are referred from.
Pathpoint’s Digital Consent will ensure all patients have access to their key procedure documents, giving them the opportunity to review the information and provide informed consent safely and securely from their own device.
As well as facilitating shared decision making through a patient-friendly portal, Pathpoint will reduce the administrative, environmental and financial burden on the trust, improving efficiency, reducing litigation and ensuring patient satisfaction.
Dr Lila Dinner, deputy chief executive and chief medical officer at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust. said: “The new Pathpoint referral platform will be a huge benefit to our patients and staff.
“We’re continually seeking ways to improve the patient experience at the RNOH and a key part of that is sourcing new and improved systems that allow us to respond better and quicker.
“Pathpoint will allow us to streamline and manage referrals and utilise Patient Reported Outcome Measures. The end result will not only be a better patient experience, but a better staff experience too.”
On Monday (December 20), RNOH went live with Pathpoint for the S P A C E D project: Streamlining Processes to Achieve Clinical Excellence through Digitisation.
This project, which will include streamlining, referral management, digital consent, and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in the first instance, will be digitised using Pathpoint’s bespoke patient care pathways. And will encompass 15 subspecialties and more than 50 different pathways.
During the rollout of the project over the next few months, all referrals to RNOH from across the country, whether urgent or elective, will be captured through Pathpoint’s single unified portal.
Pathpoint’s Digital PROMs solution, which incorporates conditional logic to trigger patient questionnaires based on pathway type and prior scoring, will allow the trust to monitor patient progress remotely over time, ensuring the trust can demonstrate the impact of its interventions while identifying those patients who require further clinical attention.
Pathpoint was first implemented at RNOH at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, where the hospital started receiving trauma referrals for the first time in almost 40 years.
Open Medical has provided Pathpoint pathway management systems in more than 90 NHS sites in the UK.
