The document discusses how technology can deliver savings for the NHS by improving healthcare through increased access to information. It provides examples of how mobile devices have given staff at two NHS trusts more time to care for patients by automating paperwork. The document argues that gathering health information and analyzing it allows for more informed healthcare decisions and that early intervention through remote monitoring can reduce hospital costs.

1. Making Savings through the use of
Technology
Mark Callaghan

2. Objectives
• Explain why savings are necessary
• Explain how savings may be achieved
• Demonstrate that technology can deliver savings
• Theme - Information is key

3. Introduction
• Health and wellbeing affect all
• NHS facing ever increasing demand
• Health is dependent on technology
• Personalised healthcare
• Information is key

4. Policy
• Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS)
• 22nd September 2014. Sir Bruce Keogh letter to
stakeholders
• A shift in direction to TECS
• Global approach
• Technology is an enabler

5. Information
• 13th November 2014. Personalised Health and
Care 2020
• Online access to GP records
• Patients can record preferences alongside medical
records
• Real-time data available to healthcare
professionals

6. Information
• Interoperable systems
• Trusted smart-phone apps
• Patients will only have to tell story once
• NHS to be a hub for genomics research

7. Information case study - Leicester
• University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
• Frontline staff frustrations
• Nursing Technology Fund investment in mobile
devices
• Staff are more visible

8. Information case study - Oxford
• Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Automation of paper based early warning chart
• Safer Hospitals Safer Wards investment in an
electronic solution
• Staff have more time to care

9. My past, my present, my future
• My past
• My present
• My future
• Collect all of this information together

10. Information and Analytics
• Gather information + Analyse information =
Informed decision

11. Technology Assessment
• NICE Medical Technology Guidance
• Weigh up costs and benefits
• Informed decision

12. Early Intervention
• Benefit of reducing costs by reducing length of stay
in hospital
• Virtual ward concept
• Tele-health

13. Emerging Trends
• Wearable devices
• Linking monitoring data to Hospital Information
Systems (HIS)
• Anaesthetic Agent control

14. Conclusion
• The NHS is facing one of its greatest challenges:
improve health outcomes whilst reducing costs.
What role might technology play in meeting this
challenge?
• Information is key
• The challenge is to use the available information
wisely