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Isansys: No More Wires
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Keith that Isansys is not only about patient monitoring, as otherwise there would be only a small amount of innovation in
their work, but additionally about answering the question: What
do you do with all this information once you have it?
The PSE is the answer to that. Providing a clearer, more granular
view of a patient’s current condition, the PSE allows a healthcare professional to make a more informed decision regarding
the treatment of their patient.
The PSE is a platform and clinical tool. It can be calibrated
alongside the wireless monitors to deliver predictive analytics
based on a patient’s readings in relation to a particular disease
or condition. This can then be tied to early-warning scores that
are defined by the participating hospital or current healthcare
guidelines.
With proper authorisation to access the online platform of the
PSE, a history of data on a particular patient can be accessed.
Tracking every heartbeat, breath, change in body temperature
and varying blood oxygen saturation, the PSE is open-source
technology that can be hosted by any hospital or care provider.
No information is shared with third parties. Using this formula,
Isansys has developed a working relationship with the public
healthcare system that is rarely seen in the current digital health
landscape and is admirable for its ability to change lives.
The Isansys technology is currently being adopted by various
hospitals across the UK.
Royal Free Hospital, London is using the PSE in the Hepatology department in order to monitor patients with advanced liver
disease. Early reports show that the PSE using a collection of
physiological data offers a non-invasive alternative to traditional
lab tests for the prediction of patient mortality.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, has equipped its
patients undergoing cancer treatment with the PSE to detect
and be an early warning indicator for sepsis, identifying it on day
one (instead of day three or four with the current protocol). The
use of wireless monitoring in these environments means that
for these patients the development of a secondary condition
such as sepsis arising from the cancer treatment can be made
avoidable.
The importance and human impact of Isansys' work has been
shown in its collaboration with Birmingham Children’s Hospital in the paediatric cardiology wards. This work is expected to
lead to a hospital-wide implementation of wireless monitoring
of children in the future as a result of greater mobility of the
patients and the lower costs of the equipment.

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gul Gumuz, Gambella, Oromia, Somali,
Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples’ Region and Tigray Regional Health
Bureaus. 30 ministries of health include:
Benin, Cambodia, Chad, Colombia, Cote
d' Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guinea,

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The Oxford AHSN and Innovate UK (in particular SBRI
Healthcare) have both supported Isansys in the deliverance of
this technology, in particular by facilitating collaboration with
the local healthcare services and granting access to governmental funding respectively, thereby helping Isansys to continue to
grow. Now in its sixth year of operation, the Isansys team works
diligently to free all patients from being literally tied into traditional, distressing medical environments, and to give them space
to heal.
This case study has been written by Akil Benjamin of Comuzi
in conjunction with The John Snow Group and Simmons &
Simmons. n

Kiribati, Laos, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe and Yemen. (In
addition ministries of health in Cameroon
and Nepal conducted baseline mapping
projects during the life of GTMP without
the use of GTMP methods.) 2 funders
include: DFID and USAID

5. Based on weighted sample: in each village chosen for mapping, the team randomly selected 30 neighbouring households, and examined every inhabitant
except for children under a year old.
Photographs by Sightsavers/Tom Saater n