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Ian Sturgess, an urgent and emergency care expert, creator of the Directory for Ambulatory Emergency Care for Adults, and advisor at TeleTracking UK, explains why operational solutions are vital in delivering Integrated Care Systems, transforming patient flow, and improving clinical quality. This story originally appeared in Building Better Healthcare. When the NHS was founded on 5 July, 1948, post-war Britain was facing a health crisis formed of nursing staff shortages, continued food ratio…

How IT is helping to ease strains in A&E departments in Kent This article originally appeared in The Economist Five years ago Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in Kent performed averagely among 137 trusts with major accident & emergency (a&e) departments, when measured by wait times. Recently, even as other trusts have been buckling, it has rarely left the top ten. Two things in particular have helped to turn things around, says Miles Scott, the trust’s chief exe…

Healthcare Operations Platform Introduces Clinically Focused Commercial Team Structure in Conjunction with Newly Created Role Pittsburgh, October 10, 2022 – TeleTracking Technologies, the world’s leading health care operations platform dedicated to expanding the capacity to care, has appointed veteran nursing leader Michelle Skinner, MBA, BSN, RN, as Chief Clinical Executive (CCE). In this newly created role, she will continue to build and scale a team of clinical and operational experts that w…

BBC South East featured our client Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to share how our technology is helping reduce the time patients are at the hospital, saving bed time and making a positive patient flow impact across the hospital, especially in the Emergency Department."We have a real-time patient monitoring system so we can understand where all of our patients are in our hospitals and our community hospitals." Operations Director Nick Sinclair explains how TeleTracking has transformed c…

This article originally appeared in The Times The wall of a quiet back room at Maidstone Hospital has been taken over by ten giant televisions flashing brightly coloured graphs.  Between them, the screens display the status of all 712 beds at the NHS trust, including how many are empty (56) and the number occupied by Covid patients (four). Two years ago these vital statistics would have been collected manually using pencils, rubbers and whiteboards. Now, the hospital leads the NHS in using…

MTW and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust implement the region’s first integrated Co-ordination Centre, strengthening collaboration between acute and community care   July 11, 2022: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) is expanding the capacity to care in collaboration with Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT). Today, MTW and TeleTracking Technologies announce the expansion of MTW’s patient flow platform into KCHFT’s four community hospitals. This is one of the…

Consortium of UNITY AG, m.Doc GmbH and TeleTracking GmbH develops innovative overall solution Braunschweig, February 16, 2022: Braunschweig Municipal Hospital (SKBS) has announced the launch of a digital patient portal with a platform for capacity management and patient flow. The consortium of UNITY AG, m.Doc GmbH and Teletracking GmbH are developing a comprehensive and integrated solution that will enable patients to manage their appointments and records online, while the hospital will benef…

Dr. Kathy Menefee Discusses Cognitive Load in Clinicians – Opportunities to Ease the Burden PITTSBURGH [January 26, 2022]—Clinicians are facing higher levels of cognitive load than ever before between the challenges of COVID-19, staffing demands, and the intensity of care delivery. TeleTracking Technologies patient flow expert, Kathy Menefee, DNP, RN, NEA BC, CPHQ, provides her insights regarding Cognitive Load in Clinicians – Opportunities to Ease the Burden at the 2022 Patient Flow Management…

This story originally appeared on the Pittsburgh Business Time's website. Read the full story.  When TeleTracking reached a deal in early 2020 with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to put into a place a countrywide system to monitor the nation's hospital capacity during the Covid-19 pandemic, it built on the Pittsburgh-based company's deep knowledge and success doing the same thing at a smaller scale for hospitals and health systems. It's become a vital tool in the federal go…

PITTSBURGH, January 11, 2022  – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced it is extending its relationship with TeleTracking to gather real-time data from hospitals and health systems as the nation continues to battle COVID-19 and improves preparedness for future emergencies. The 12-month contract will be funded through HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) and will continue to provide national and state level data on data elemen…