Healthcare Platform Bleeper Shows 63% Faster Patient Pathways
Feedback PLC's Bleeper platform, designed to streamline healthcare pathways for the UK's NHS, has demonstrated the ability to complete care pathways 63% faster than NHS targets. The platform also reportedly helps the NHS see 30% more patients within the same budget by avoiding 90% of traditional in-person appointments.
- Bleeper is a clinical communication platform designed to give healthcare professionals a unified view of patient data from multiple hospital systems. This allows for asynchronous multidisciplinary team meetings, where clinicians can collaborate on patient cases without being in the same place at the same time. - The platform's CEO is Dr. Tom Oakley, a former NHS radiologist who also participated in the NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow program. - A key feature of Bleeper is its CE-marked medical imaging communication capability, which allows clinicians to securely view and discuss high-quality medical-grade images like X-rays and CT scans on mobile devices. - The 63% faster patient pathway statistic comes from a redesigned breathlessness pathway at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which also saw a 90% reduction in the need for outpatient appointments. - Bleeper is eligible for reimbursement under the NHS Elective Recovery Fund, which provides a national funding mechanism for NHS organizations to adopt technologies that can help reduce patient waitlists. - The platform includes a "Photocapture" feature that enables clinicians to take clinical images, such as of skin lesions, without any patient data being stored on the device itself. - Feedback PLC is also expanding internationally, with a focus on the Indian healthcare market, which is moving towards digitizing patient records through its National Digital Health Mission. - The technology is designed to replace outdated and non-compliant communication methods like pagers and WhatsApp for clinical conversations.
