Alder Hey has launched a “ground-breaking” hybrid digital health platform which it says will revolutionise how care is delivered to children and young people.
AlderHey@nywhere is described as a hospital of the future, where patient and clinical care is delivered physically and virtually, to create a “hospital without walls.”
The technology has been developed by Alder Hey Innovation in collaboration with Microsoft and Mindwave.
“At the moment, healthcare is most often about treating people that are ill. What we want to do is to shift to a more preventative model of care that is individualised and tailored and that empowers children and young people to take ownership of their healthcare and treatment,” explained Claire Liddy, Managing Director of Alder Hey Innovation.
“There are so many different technologies out there now, including wearable technology and devices such as smartwatches that enable you to monitor your health at home. What we needed was a hybrid platform to bring it all together into one place so that families, children and young people could access it, alongside their clinicians at the hospital.”
The platform was created to address the capacity of hospital and community resources, both in terms of physical space and workforce. This was paired with increased demand for accident and emergency admissions, long waiting times for outpatient appointments and the increased lengths of hospital stays.
