First contracts in England confirm growth potential for Beamtree services in improving patient outcomes globally
Beamtree is pleased to announce its first NHS contracts with four leading hospital trusts in England to drive improvements in patient care.
These are the first international clients for Beamtree’s proprietary RippleDown decision support technology in hospital-based care – Beamtree is already an international market leader in applications of decision support in pathology. It is also the first time that Beamtree coding and analytic services have been contracted in England.
Beamtree is building a strategic pipeline of international partners to implement these services in Europe, the Middle East, US and Asia.
- Milton Keynes University Hospitals and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals will implement 12-month proof-of-concept programs centred on application of Beamtree RippleDown technology and data analytics to automate the coding of clinical records – a process key to delivering better patient safety, enhanced transparency of care outcomes and improved resource allocation. The envisaged outcome is long-term partnership to implement the automation of coding in a large majority of routine cases within 24 hours of discharge, liberating the hospital’s clinical coders to focus on complex cases.
- Beamtree will trial and evaluate new applications of RippleDown to improve the prediction of risk of patient deterioration on the ward with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and the University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (UHCW).
- Beamtree will also trial implementation of its technology to automate clinical documentation including discharge summaries with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals to improve patient safety and reduce the administrative burden on the clinical frontline.
- University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire will implement a six-month proof of concept to trial RippleDown across its pathology services network, focused on testing in two conditions (thyroid disease and diabetes).
- Beamtree will partner with Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust to conduct a quality review of its clinically coded acute mental health data to create a baseline for assessment and to identify areas for improvement.
These contracts represent a major strategic milestone in confirming the international opportunity for export of Beamtree’s pioneering Australian technologies. These first phase agreements are expected to lead to multi-year engagements.
Milton Keynes CEO Joe Harrison said: “Our Trust is determined to provide the best possible services to our population – and that starts with making sure we use the best possible data to inform both our clinical decision making and our ongoing patient care. This partnership is testament to our commitment to patient safety, transparency and the smart allocation of resources to ensure our people receive the quality of care they deserve.”
Prof Andy Hardy, CEO of UHCW, said: “We’re excited to explore how automation can support our pathology staff and so free up resources to focus on ever better quality of patient care.”
Kevin McGee, CEO at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, said: “We welcome the opportunity to test and learn from tools that can help improve patient safety and deliver better care to the population of Lancashire and South Cumbria.”
Beamtree CEO Tim Kelsey said: “It is a great privilege to serve these leading NHS providers to support ‘Learning Health Systems’ using our products to tackle medical errors, reduce hospital acquired complications, address health access inequalities and improve efficiency.
“We believe the deployment of AI and machine learning tools can make a positive impact on critical factors, such as length of patient stay in hospital and the risk of deterioration. We welcome the opportunity to work with these NHS trusts and look forward to announcing similar partnerships with other international pathfinders in due course.”
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