Orange Launches Care in Motion for NHS Community Workers

Solution liberates more than an hour a day of NHS community care workers’ time, to increase home visit numbers and improve patient care
London, 31 January, 2011: Designed specifically to allow community based healthcare professionals to spend more time with more patients, the reduced need to visit offices and transfer hand-written notes to records could release more than one hour per day per person, to be spent providing care to patients in their homes.
Care in Motion Limited (CiML), a subsidiary of NDL, is working exclusively with Orange to offer the Care in Motion (CiM) solution, which will be available on compatible BlackBerry Smartphones from today.  Through a secure mobile application, community based healthcare professionals will be free to work more efficiently while in the field.
The distribution of information regarding visiting schedules, the ability to manage teams remotely and the synchronizing of healthcare professionals’ reports to a central database for importing into a Patient Administration Systems can all take place without the need for anyone to return to an office.  In addition, customers can select which information needs to be viewed by community based healthcare workers from a range of data options, including via a secure VPN.  The CiM database is hosted in the customer’s own server domain, providing additional security over other externally hosted options.
Care in Motion from Orange powered by NDL is designed to make life easier for NHS customers, from procurement to field workers.  With Patient Administration Systems often only accessible on-site, Care in Motion will now enable access to relevant information on the move.  This means that healthcare professionals can spend additional time with more patients, so reducing the number of expensive hospital admissions of those who can be visited at home.  The intuitive mobile application with an easy-to-learn user interface, provides an audit trail of all care activity, and through optional integration with the Lone Worker solution from Orange, can help managers make sure that their team members are safe while carrying out visits alone.
Kate Jack, Head of Public Sector and Health, Orange, said “Orange is always looking for ways to help our public sector customers deliver efficiency savings, and Care in Motion from Orange, powered by NDL ticks all the boxes of the QIPP programme. Through our exclusive prime contract agreement with CiML, Orange has the expertise to deliver solutions that will make life easier for our NHS customers.  We will manage installation and support for solutions including Care in Motion and Lone Worker from Orange, creating an even more simple procurement process. This innovative mobile solution will not only assist healthcare professionals through offering more efficient working practices, but will also mean that patients can benefit from more time in their homes with NHS care workers, as opposed to costly and time-consuming hospital visits.”
Tom McMurtrie, CEO, Care in Motion Limited, said “The challenges and demands on community based healthcare workers are wide-ranging and constant.  Customers using the CiM solution have already freed up at least one hour per day per clinician, which has been used to spend more time with priority patients, increasing the number of appointments, and delivering additional services.  We can’t wait to work with Orange to help more NHS customers overcome their challenges to spend more time with more patients.  From easy procurement to streamlining visit scheduling; reducing the administrative burden and releasing vital extra time for clinicians to care, we believe our partnership with Orange will provide a trusted, reliable and invaluable tool for NHS customers across the UK.”
Care in Motion is part of a wider portfolio of Orange solutions designed specifically for the healthcare sector, and is available from today.  To find out more, visit www.orange.co.uk/health.