Hospital capacity & efficiency COVID-19 RECOVERY RESOURCE CENTRE

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:

• Optimising and accelerating care journeys
• Drive-Through ICD & Pacemaker check-up solution
• Capacity centre
• Fast track diagnostic solution
• Managed services
• Same-day discharge solution
• ICU - Turnkey solution
• Patient engagement and remote monitoring
• Remote collaboration
• AF treatment
  

Optimising and accelerating care journeys

IHS offers a comprehensive and integrated solution to help providers build robust, optimised, patient-centric care pathways that accelerate access to care, minimise length of stay and support patients as they return home. Capitalising on hundreds of care pathway optimisation projects, across a broad array of medical conditions, the Pathway Accelerator Solution can quickly transform your pathway and deliver sustainable results.

It helps hospitals:

• Improve patients’ experience
• Be cost-efficient
• Deliver high quality care
• Enhance reputation

Drive-through ICD & pacemaker check-up solution

Providing a 15-minute device check-up outside the hospital to lower contamination risk and increase capacity
IHS has developed a drive-through solution to provide pacemaker and internal cardiac device (ICD) check-ups while reducing the number of in-hospital visits and relieving the pressure on space and resources.

Case Study: St Antonius Heart Centre

Learn how IHS supported one of the leading hospitals in the Netherlands in providing pacemaker/ICD check-ups while lowering the risk of contamination, reducing the number of in-hospital visits by 90%, and eliminating patient backlog inherited from the 1st COVID-19 wave – seeing a total of nearly 300 patients outside the hospital over a two-week period. 

CAPACITY CENTRE

Helping providers ensure they have adequate hospital capacity when needed and flexibility to quickly adapt to the ever-changing situation. 
Medtronic IHS is currently offering the Capacity Centre, a comprehensive solution that helps providers become more agile and efficiently adapt to patients changing flow.

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^® 

INCAP=INtegrated CAre Program is an integrated solution for the remote monitoring of diabetes patients aiming at optimising their entire care pathway.

Through analytics and a service centre, it offers triage and exclusive services, to provide insights to HCPs, allowing them to deliver information and therapy advice to patients, remotely.
INCAP enables clinical teams to:

• focus on those cases needing additional attention
• intervene between in-person visits
• schedule visits when needed
• use a digital, patient-friendly, interface to communicate with their patients

Learn more about INCAP here or contact us via rs.incapenquiry@medtronic.com

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.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, elective procedures such as AF ablation were cancelled or postponed. As a consequence, many hospitals experienced a huge backlog of AF procedures. Explore concepts and practices that might help you to reduce your AF patient waiting list in the COVID era.

Arctic Front Cryoballoon Service Optimisation in the COVID Era

Watch the expert panel discussion featured by Radcliffe Cardiology to learn about ways to improve the efficiency of the Medtronic cryoballoon ablation workflow, optimise staff support, and implement same-day discharge.

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