Medical institution MiCode Medical forms 10-year affiliation with Great Ormond Street Hospital for digital health advancements
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has partnered with MiCode Medical, a healthcare technology company, in a 10-year collaboration aimed at enhancing safety in emergency care. The collaboration focuses on implementing MiCode’s innovative QR code system, which allows first responders and healthcare professionals to instantly retrieve essential patient information, reducing delays in treatment during emergencies.
MiCode Medical's QR code system is seen as a lifeline for patients and first responders, empowering families and first responders to access critical medical details instantly. The system, which securely links encrypted medical details to a unique QR code, is intended to ensure the right care is provided to GOSH patients, anywhere in the world.
The collaboration offers invaluable peace of mind for families and patients, as the QR codes provide details about a patient's conditions, allergies, and emergency contacts. MiCode's goal is to revolutionize how vital medical information is accessed during emergencies, improving clinical documentation, coding accuracy, and speed, and streamlining workflow in emergency departments (ED).
In pilot studies at GOSH, documentation accuracy improved by up to 30%, ensuring that clinical records more accurately reflect patient conditions and treatments. Integration decreases delays between patient encounters and coding completion from an average of 72 hours to under 24 hours, enabling faster data availability for clinical decision-making and billing.
The collaboration will involve evaluating the effectiveness of MiCode with GOSH patients and staff. Under the terms of the agreement, MiCode will provide 1,000 QR codes to GOSH patients, free of charge until they reach 21 years of age. Professor James Ohene-Djan, Founder of MiCode Medical, views the collaboration with Great Ormond Street Hospital as a significant milestone, expressing hope that the evaluation will demonstrate the effectiveness of MiCode in improving emergency care for GOSH patients.
The collaboration has been signed with Great Ormond Street Hospital's Data Research, Innovation and Virtual Environments unit (GOSH DRIVE). Professor Ohene-Djan emphasizes the importance of the collaboration in potentially benefiting many more children with MiCode’s system. The evaluation aims to show that having vital medical information readily available can transform emergency care, with initial data indicating reductions in emergency department length of stay, with an average decrease of 15-20%.
The collaboration between MiCode Medical and Great Ormond Street Hospital demonstrates promising enhancements in clinical documentation accuracy, emergency care efficiency, and patient safety outcomes. Continued rollout and refinement of these integrated coding solutions hold potential for transforming pediatric emergency care delivery and establishing new standards for safety and quality.
The QR code system by MiCode Medical, implemented through their partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital, aims to revolutionize the process of accessing critical medical information during emergencies, specifically for pediatric patients. This system, designed to securely link encrypted medical details to a unique QR code, can significantly improve health-and-wellness outcomes by ensuring the right medical-conditions and emergency contacts are readily available to healthcare professionals, thus streamlining technology in emergency departments.
