Digital Health December 21, 2023
Digital triage provider, eConsult Health has agreed a new partnership with Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation to integrate its eTriage technology for patient registration and prioritisation in Kingston’s Emergency Department.
The implementation sets out to strengthen the hospital’s ability to meet its government-set target of initially assessing walk-in patients within 15 minutes.
eTriage, is an electronic registration check-in service that uses algorithm-based questions about patient symptoms to quickly identify, within minutes of arrival, the sickest patients and categorise walk-ins into five different priority categories (P1 – P5). The technology, which facilitates the prioritisation and triage of patients arriving at Kingston’s Emergency Department, will help reduce initial assessment waiting times for the Trust, enhancing patient safety.
As part of the agreement, eTriage...