MSoft Secures Double Contract Win To Install Blood Tracking Technology

MSoft have signed deals with the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to install web-based electronic blood tracking and bedside management technology at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and Torbay Hospital. The plan is to roll the solution out to other parts of both Trusts during the next 18 months.

The contract wins come at the end of a successful few months for MSoft which has carried out major projects with a number of other Trusts including Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, the Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and the Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust.

MSoft’s electronic blood tracking system controls access to and from all blood fridges, while the bedside management system allows each bar-coded blood unit to be matched with the patient’s bar-coded wristband in a matter of seconds. Nurses use a combination of handheld devices and computers on wheels at the patient’s bedside. MSoft is even in discussions with a couple of Trusts about the introduction of iPad technology on to wards.

The MSoft systems provide further enhanced security and safety by ensuring that only approved staff are allowed to access blood. It also provides positive patient identification of users and patients and in depth auditing of all bloods across each and every stage of the tranfusion process – to help get the right blood into the right patient.

Managing Director Matt McAlister, said: “We are delighted to have signed contracts with Royal Devon and Exeter and South Devon and look forward to working with both Trusts on the successful implementation of their blood tracking and bedside management systems.

“It is an exciting time for MSoft as more and more Trusts are keen to sit down and talk to us about how we can not only improve patient safety and hospital security but also, in these difficult economic times, how we can also provide cost effective systems which allow the NHS to make genuine savings.”

MSoft is also in discussions with a number of hospitals in Europe, the United States, Australia and New Zealand which have been impressed by what they have heard about the company’s work with Trusts in the UK.