CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD NHS
“ COVID forced us into this virtual world as clinicians and accelerated the acceptance of technology when before it was seen as something that was going to be an inconvenience ”
GRAHAM WALSH CHIEF CLINICAL INFORMATION OFFICER , CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
can also prevent cyberattacks . “ Using a digital identity Imprivata has helped us mitigate against possible cyberattacks and protect sensitive data in line with essential cyber standards and those put in place by NHS Digital . It also supports the requirements of the Data Security and protection toolkit .”
On a national level , the trust has been involved in the Scan4Safety programme , which has the aim of improving traceability through the use of barcodes . " Thanks to funding from Scan4Safety , we ' ve introduced products and solutions that have really enhanced patient safety , and we were able to procure an asset tracking system to identify critical equipment needed for the care of our patients ", Griffin explains .
The project has proven very valuable as the trust has now tagged over 3,000 devices . " We can track where equipment is , and we can get it to where it needs to be as quickly and as efficiently as possible ", Griffin says . " Scan4safety is a collaboration across West Yorkshire led by Leeds Teaching Hospital , where we have procured a joint inventory system that will allow us to track and see where all our products across our trusts are at any one given time . It ' s still in its infancy , but the whole aim is that by the end of the Scan4Safety programme , there will be a shared inventory solution across the West
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