Oxehealth claims to be the world’s first company to offer technology that enables clinicians and carers to monitor human activity and vital signs ‘totally contact-free’ using only mass-produced optical sensors.
The technology alerts staff to potential safety events, enables remote taking of medical grade heart and breathing rate observations, and provides ‘smart activity reports’ to inform clinical judgements and facilitate earlier step-down in the care required. As business development director, Mental Health, Charlotte Wood, explains, Oxehealth has been working with Broadmoor Hospital since 2015, and recently completed its first commercial installation in mental health.
Caring for vulnerable people in mental health settings is uniquely challenging. Patients often present with physical, as well as mental, health conditions, and require complex care to stay safe. Limited access to information about a person’s physical health can make managing the care of these patients difficult. While every effort is made to check and rouse patients appropriately, sadly complications can still arise between scheduled checks. According to a BBC news story, more than 8,000 serious incidents occurred in mental health Trusts in England in 2015.1Serious incidents and deaths in hospital are a tragedy for the patient’s family, traumatic for staff, and costly for hospitals.
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