In Evreux, new technologies to the aid of the hospital – Paris Normandy

Remote Consultations, medical reports directly to a secretariat, forum doctors on mobile applications, taking care of patients faster, more flexible management of care pathways … The hospital lives at the time of technological advances. But it is also a way to address the deficit of medical personnel and preventing the quality of care will deteriorate. Overview.

A stretcher connected

Delays, lack of flexibility, confusing information, lack of control, uneven distribution of the workload internally generated voltages. The stretcher service suffered from multiple ailments. Equipped with smartphones since last year, the stretcher-bearers are assigned their shopping according to their availability and their geographical proximity in which the service should be the patient’s care. ‘ It smoothens transportation, account for shopping, to provide flexibility in managing and evaluating the work of the stretcher bearer. It is a tool that has helped them a lot. They felt valued and they deserve to be , “said Patrice Large, the information system of the hospital director Eure-Seine. . Result: the care of patients is faster

Mitigate the effects of stroke

Eure-Seine hospital has a platform of vital emergency room for care of patients with cerebrovascular accident (CVA). ‘ When the patient arrives in the emergency and one has the impression that this is a stroke, using a telemedicine system a specialist of the University Hospital of Rouen, which makes a remote consultation, interprets the images made in neurological service and establishes whether to inject a product (fibrinolysis) which limits the effects of stroke . It is effective and we win forever ‘ he said.

And tomorrow

Patrice Large is convinced. The connected objects will take more and more space in tomorrow’s course of care. ‘ In a way, the patient’s room at home, it is also the hospital’s room ‘ he explains. With constant monitoring of the person bedridden at home. “ We’ll have an object that will take the strain of the patient, analyze what you will, send signals to the hospital’s specialist teams. “ The remote patient monitoring is already a reality. But it should be ‘ reasonable and prudent ‘ , warns Patrice Large . ‘ We must be sure that the tool meets the needs and do not crash. Under the pretext that new technologies are there, we can not abandon the desert a patient who is at risk. ‘ And so, away from a human expertise.

V. F.