How WE CAN HELP

Integrated Health Solutions (IHS) partners with hospitals and healthcare professionals across EMEA, offering solutions that help them maximise capacities, resume operations and enable access to high quality care during COVID-19 and beyond. 

Learn about:

• Capacity recovery centre
• Fast track diagnostic solution
• Managed services
• Same-day discharge solution
• ICU - Turnkey solution
• Patient engagement and remote monitoring
• Remote collaboration
• AF treatment
  

CAPACITY RECOVERY CENTRE

Accelerating procedural restart post-COVID-19 while making the best use of available resources.  
Medtronic IHS is currently offering the Capacity Recovery Centre, a comprehensive solution for restoring capacity and patient access to care during and beyond COVID-19.

It includes:

• A programme management office (PMO)
• Analysis and projection on hospital demand and resources
• Clinical services and procedure portfolio prioritisation (planning and scheduling)
• Financial impact modelling
• Transition planning

FAST TRACK DIAGNOSTIC SOLUTION

Giving cardiology patients immediate access to all diagnostic procedures in a single visit. Our comprehensive and fully managed cardiology diagnostic centre provides patients with a one-stop diagnostic experience that reduces time to first appointment, shortens diagnostic wait times, and lowers diagnostic costs for hospitals. 

This one-stop concept is especially valuable during COVID-19 as it helps alleviate patient fear about interacting with the healthcare system, while reducing instances of deferred care, and assisting hospitals in refilling their patient pipeline. 

MANAGED SERVICES

Managing Cath Labs and operating rooms for efficiency, cost savings and growth.
Medtronic IHS provides an integrated service offering to establish and support management of leading-edge cardiovascular departments, including:

• Equipment management
• Material management
• Operational excellence advisory
• Implementation of advanced cardiovascular information systems
• Business development
• On-site service improvement staff

Our managed services are ISO certified* and built on our expertise in optimising and operating Cath Labs and operating rooms for more than 200 hospitals.

We establish long term partnerships with leading institutions across EMEA to help them improve efficiency and provide high-quality patient care. Discover our stories: 

SAME-DAY DISCHARGE SOLUTION

Enabling same-day-intervention and discharge in a cutting-edge setting.
Medtronic IHS has developed CardioLounge - a comprehensive out of the box solution to drive Same-Day-Discharge (SDD) for cardiology patients.

CardioLounge enables:

• Transformation of traditional day wards to cutting-edge patient-centric CardioLounges
• Implementation of safe and efficient operations
• Implementation of clinical protocols
• Implementation of a digital patient engagement app
• Project and change management to drive project success
• Access to best-practices and benchmarks.

ICU – TURNKEY SOLUTION

Helping hospitals augment their infrastructure to maximise capacity.
Medtronic IHS offers a comprehensive and fully managed design and set-up of Intensive or Sub-intensive Care Units that enable healthcare professionals to provide fast and optimal care during COVID-19. 

Patient Engagement and remote Monitoring

Get Ready^® is a digital health solution that connects patients and clinicians to enable care coordination and management. It’s a highly flexible solution as it can be:

• Applied across different use cases
• Utilised for a variety of therapies 
• Tailored to the specific needs of any hospital

Get Ready^® helps hospitals and healthcare professionals to assess, monitor and triage COVID-19 patients following an emergency department visit or conventional hospitalisation, thus freeing-up resources, lowering the risk to be exposed to COVID-19, and optimising utilisation of critical resources.

Learn more about Get Ready^® 

Remote collaboration

MedCom: Enabling remote collaboration across medical care teams 
Our digital collaboration platform MedCom facilitates remote communication and collaboration of interdisciplinary care teams to make faster decisions about patient cases during COVID-19 crisis. 

AF TREATMENT

The impact of COVID-19 on AF treatment: Challenges and potential solutions.
Explore concepts and practices used in the management of an AF Clinic in the COVID era.

EXTERNAL RESOURCES

The following resources on hospital capacity and efficiency have been collected from healthcare organisations, consultancies, and other industry experts.

• June 16,2020 - Surgery: Research and Reports: How are We Going to Restart Elective Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery after the Peak of Covid-19 Pandemic? 
• May 15, 2020 – Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) releases: COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Health Care Providers This PDF explains specific waivers or modifications under the 1135 authority implemented by CMS on a blanket basis to prevent gaps and bottlenecks in access to care for beneficiaries impacted by the emergency.
• May 14, 2020 – L.E.K.* Consulting’s MedTech and Healthcare Services releases: The Impact of COVID-19 on US Hospitals—Edition 7
• May 13, 2020 – Ambulatory Surgery Center Association releases: Medicare Suppliers May Temporarily Enroll as Labs to Help Address COVID-19 Testing
• May 7,2020 - DSS recommendations for management of surgical candidates and postoperative patients and prioritisation of access to surgery: Bariatric and metabolic surgery during and after the COVID-19 pandemic 
• May 7, 2020 – U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs releases: Charting the Course: Maintaining Continuous Services to Veterans and Resuming Normal, Pre-COVID-19 Operations
• May 4, 2020 – American College of Cardiology (ACC) releases: Hot Topics: What You Need to Know: Considerations for Reopening and Non-COVID-19 Care
• April 24, 2020 – Advisory Board^† releases:  Your checklist for resuming elective procedures: Key considerations for resuming elective procedures
• April 17, 2020 – American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, and American Hospital Association release: Joint Statement: Roadmap for Resuming Elective Surgery after COVID-19 Pandemic
• April 17, 2020 – American College of Surgeons releases Local Resumption of Elective Surgery Guidance