Inter-hospital Transfers System for Cardiac Networks

August 15th 2005

In 2005, the North West London Cardiac Network commissioned Teleologic to develop a web-based inter-hospital transfers system for use across all NW London centres and for DGH's external to London who refer patients into the Network for in-patient procedures. The NW London system is now in use by 15 hospital sites providing both regular clinical and waiting time data across the whole of the Network and beyond.

The improvements made in the complex area of inter-hospital transfers highlighted NW London, in a national IHT audit of waiting times, as one of the top performing Networks nationally.

Following on from the success of the NW London system, a further system was commissioned for the SE London Cardiac Network area, and this system has been hosted at King’s since 2006.

The system is being widely adopted by other Cardiac Networks – recent installations have included South West London, North Central London and the Thames Valley area.

Teleologic are currently working with NW London and CCAD (Central Cardiac Audit Database) to collect data automatically for MINAP reporting for Acute Coronary Syndrome patients, thus providing further benefits to the participating hospitals in terms of time and cost savings, and further enhancing the data completeness of the MINAP reports.

In addition, Teleologic are also working with King’s themselves to provide a web-based acute referrals system for Neurosurgery, utilising the same server and networking infrastructure previously installed for the Cardiac Inter-hospital Transfers system.