Improve outcomes and reduce the variability of clinical practice

 

Integrated care pathways, also known as patient care pathways, case management plans, critical pathways or care maps are used to manage the quality of healthcare, primarily concerning the standardisation of care processes. The aim is to improve outcomes and reduce the variability in clinical practice by focusing on the patient’s overall journey.

Process mapping is often used to model the way people and the organisation actually work, taking into account real-world factors like: labour costs, unit time, waiting time, roles, and the relationship between a process, a role, a department, as well as many other factors. To make real progress can take away limited resources and take time.

Formic patient care pathway solutions can help with process mapping data capture from care maps and sub-maps, to integrate into care pathways for patient care, stroke care or general healthcare.  Using our solutions information can be validated from forms such as GP assessments, patient report surveys, clinical trials, staff satisfaction surveys, case logbooks, medical records and hospital discharge forms.

Formic makes it easy to capture data in a way that suits:

 

-  Paper data capture with scanning

-  Online data capture (web forms)

-  Mobile handheld devices (tablet PC, PDA, mobile phone, touchscreen)

-  Kiosk (fixed or mobile)

 

Our software comprises three modules that reduce the time spent at each stage of the survey process: Survey Design, Data Capture, Analysis and Reporting.

Collected data can be fed in to Patient Administration Systems (PAS), Microbiology or Laboratory Information Systems (LIMS) and Infection Control Management (ICM) systems such as ICNet or simply exported to Microsoft Access, ASCII, XML, ODBC or SPSS for rigorous statistical analysis.

 

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