Ambulance software to be rolled out in three regions in the UK with Tablet PCs

 

Ambulance software that enables paramedics to record patient details electronically and send them to hospital staff ahead of arrival in A&E is to be rolled out in three English NHS regions.

The paramedic takes the tablet PC into the hospital, completes the tablet record and uploads it to CSC’s data center. A verbal handover and sign off is completed with the A&E nurse who can also access the record via a web browser the department.

The paramedic takes the tablet PC into the hospital, completes the tablet record and uploads it to CSC’s data center. A verbal handover and sign off is completed with the A&E nurse who can also access the record via a web browser the department.

Robert Mason, program manager for the CSC Emergency Care System, who is also a paramedic, told E-Health Insider: “The immediate benefits are the ability to track patient interventions so that they can identify the number and types of interventions that are occurring and the level of intervention.”

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