Lillah Irwin, Tissue Viability Nurse ⁺and Edwin Chamanga, Senior Lecturer Tissue Viability ⁺⁺

presenting free paper at Wounds UK 2018 Annual Conference, Harrogate

 

⁺ Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

⁺⁺ Kingston University and St. George's University of London

 

Entec Health were pleased to have their collaboration partners from Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) present an e-poster and free paper at the Wounds UK Annual Conference, Harrogate, 5-7 November 2018.

As first adopters of the Wound Care Buddy App (© Entec Health Limited), Tissue Viability Lead Nurse, Lillah Irwin, alongside Senior Lecturer Tissue Viability Edwin Chamanga, shared their experience and results on implementation of a Wound Care Mobile App to support best practice in community wound care.

Positive impacts and benefits of the Wound Care Buddy App reported by HRCH in peer-reviewed free paper session at Wounds UK 2018 conference:

• Encourages clinicians to holistically assess patients with wound care guidelines available at their “finger tips”.
• Reduces delays in starting appropriate care
• Supports appropriate referrals to TVNs
• From the reviewed data, there is evidence of clinicians frequently accessing the key dressings and formulary listings screens, which could be considered as evidence of wound care formulary compliance
• This meets with the Department of Health agenda of digital mobile working

You can download the HRCH e-poster and free paper presentation from Wounds UK 2018 Annual Conference 2018 here:

Implementation of a Wound Care Mobile App in a Community Setting

Lillah Irwin, Tissue Viability Nurse ⁺ and Edwin Chamanga Senior Lecturer in Tissue Viability ⁺⁺

⁺ Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

⁺⁺ Kingston University and St. George's University of London

Download the HRCH Trust e-poster and free paper presentation here, by kind permission of the authors.

It has been an exciting few months for the Hounslow & Richmond Community Trust Tissue Viability Team. The HRCH Tissue Viability team were announced finalists in the Nursing Times Awards 2018, for the Innovation in Chronic Wound Management Category. Read more.

Inspired to adopt the Wound Care Buddy App?

The Wound Care Buddy App is developed and hosted by Entec Health as a cloud-based service. Supported by Wounds UK, Entec Health is pleased to bring the Wound Care Buddy App to healthcare providers to help make best practice and formulary compliance easier and smarter.

Please get in touch to schedule a Wound Care Buddy App conversation or demonstration. Call Louis Easy, Entec Health Sales, on 07376 046 824 for further information.

Download Wound Care Buddy App brochure here

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Entec Health team at Wounds UK, 2018 from left, Managing Director - Achala Patel, Solutions Manager – Amir Dean, Sales & Marketing Executive – Louis Easy

 

 

Entec Health is excited to present the New Generation of Silhouette, featuring SilhouetteStar2, SilhouetteLite+ and SilhouetteLite. The new Silhouette suite enables wound care specialists to assess patient wound outcomes in a range of care settings using digital wound imaging with the option of 3D or 2D wound measurement.

The wound data collected by the Silhouette devices is synchronised with a centrally hosted database, SilhouetteCentral. SilhouetteCentral is a web-based application and can be accessed remotely when a secure network connection is available. The point of care wound assessment device options include the SilhouetteStar2 3D measurement wireless camera, SilhouetteLite+ Application and 2D measurement Sensor for iPad/iPhone and the SilhouetteLite App for iOS devices.

 

Watch the Silhouette New Generation Suite video to learn more 

   

Silhouette New Generation overview video

To learn more, head to our Silhouette New Generation webpage to watch our video demonstrations

The Silhouette solution offers the following benefits to NHS Trusts and other healthcare providers: 

• Fast, easy, objective wound assessment at the point of care
• Supports outcomes-led practice for integrated, multi-disciplinary care of patients
• Enables organisations to empower and equip clinicians to achieve improvements in wound outcomes, safety, patient experience and cost effectiveness

Email us at sales@entechealth.com to book a call to discuss your wound care service development plans and how we can help. 

Silhouette is a registered trademark of ARANZ Healthcare Limited

The Journal of Community Nursing (JCN) has announced Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) as winners in Outstanding Practice in Wound Care for successful implementation of the Wound Care Buddy App for their district nurses. This follows a successful collaboration between HRCH and Entec Health Limited, the company behind the Wound Care Buddy App. 

 Watch the Wound Care Buddy App virtual tour here

The Wound Care Buddy App enables healthcare professionals to access their organisation’s wound management guidelines and formulary product listing, on mobile devices at the point of care, to support standardised care and best practice.

Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust has become the first organisation in the NHS to adopt the Wound Care Buddy App as a part of their commitment to enabling their nurses to deliver the best patient care possible. The Wound Care Buddy App has been very well received at the Trust. There has been positive impact for the Tissue Viability Nursing (TVN) team and District Nurses, helping staff to access essential information rapidly when needed and to use their time more effectively. Previously, if district nurses required specialist information at the point of care, they would have to contact a Tissue Viability Nurse (TVN) over the phone, which proved to be an ineffective method, as in some cases the TVN nurses may have called back after district nurses had left the patient's home.

 

"The TVN team is now receiving fewer calls about basic wound care advice as district nurses can find the information when needed"

Lillah Irwin, Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse - Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

 

Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust team from left, Yomi Ogunsola, Amritpal Mangat, Lillah Irwin

and Entec Health Managing Director, Achala Patel

The team at HRCH are extremely passionate about digital health care and are continuously seeking innovative systems to support their tissue viability service and district nurses in delivering the best care possible.This prestigious JCN Award for Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust recognises the Trust’s ability to innovate how their staff deliver excellence in wound care.The HRCH management team has also found the anonymised analytics generated by the Wound Care Buddy App very useful in tracking uptake of the App and user visits per screen. This has given HRCH invaluable insights on the information that their district nurses are seeking out to support patient care. 

 

"Analytics such as users per month and screen views is helping us understand what information is regularly being accessed and demonstrating active use of the Trust's Wound Management Formulary"

Yomi Ogunsola, Adult Community Services Manager - Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

 

Example: Anonymised User Analytics displaying screen views and users per month, giving NHS Trusts an insight on what information is being accessed on the Wound Care Buddy App

 

“The Wound Care Buddy App was developed with the support of leading, expert UK practitioners. I am proud to see Entec Health launching this solution and making an impact by empowering nurses with more  confidence and independence to follow Trust wound management guidelines and formulary policy. ” 

Achala Patel, Managing Director - Entec Health

To download the Wound Care Buddy App Brochure please click here

 

 

We are excited to announce the launch of a fresh new website, packed with the latest information on our exciting digital healthcare portfolio for wound management and diabetes foot care

As a health tech innovation company, we passionately believe that technology has the ability to positively impact healthcare, which is why it’s a top priority for us to share the latest news and know-how with healthcare innovators.

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Watch our virtual tour of the Wound Care Buddy App, an exciting new solution for management of wound care formularies, the digital way.

Check out Silhouette feature on BBC East Midlands Today, to see how the digital wound imaging technology is paving the way for improved care of patients with diabetes foot ulcers.

 

Have a sneak preview of our new website here

 

         

 

Take a look at what’s new

• Browse our new Video Gallery with demos and updates on our health technology solutions
• See updates on how Silhouette digital wound assessment solution is transforming diabetes foot care and wound care
• Discover the Wound Care Buddy App for publication of a digital wound formulary
• Check out the Entec Health Blog for latest on wound care, diabetes foot care and digital health

Entec Health specialises in digital healthcare technology and transformation solutions to help reduce variation in wound outcomes.

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