Healthcare Sector

Healthcare providers have made great – if sometimes difficult – strides over the past few years in computerising patient records and automating tasks such as ordering and reporting tests.Yet there are still significant gaps in the systems that support patient care. Gaps that add to costs, while preventing patients from receiving the best possible treatment:

• skilled healthcare professionals still spend too much time on tasks such as chasing up paperwork and results

• poor co-ordination between different professional groups or healthcare providers can set back the start of treatment, or delay patients being discharged from hospital

Workstream helps clients in the healthcare sector manage the interactions between healthcare professionals, between healthcare professionals and systems, and between healthcare providers running different systems. We allow you to leverage existing applications to create seamless links between departments and organisations – without the need for the costly and lengthy IT projects that have proved so tricky to deliver successfully in the healthcare sector.

capture clinical information at the point of care through PDA-based systems, reducing the burden of paperwork on clinical staff

• transfer key patient data and case notes between healthcare professionals

• refer patients to other services for tests or aftercare, both within the same organisation or within other healthcare providers.