Necessity is the mother of invention.

A Discovery.

During the Covid 19 pandemic our Chief Medical Officer Dr Andrew Barlow setup the UK’s 1st and largest Covid virtual ward, to date having treated over 6,500 patients. Based on this experience, the team went on to develop more advanced models of virtual hospital care, enabling patients with acute COPD, ARI and Heart Failure to be transferred home, ahead of being medically fit for discharge - to reduce length of stay by as much as 50%, with reduction of 90 day readmission rates by up to 67%.

A Challenge.

This pioneering work demonstrated remarkable outcomes, but also proved that to deliver these new clinical models at-scale, safely and efficiently, it is vital that orchestration and automation of communications, processes and data is made possible, across geographically dispersed teams from acute, community and home-care organisations. Put simply, hospital-at-home is a new model of digitally-enabled, integrated care, which crosses the historic architectural divides of siloed health systems.

Our Approach.

Our team of leading technologists embarked on the journey of creating a software platform capable of enabling these essential requirements - to enable safe and efficient delivery of a state-of-the-art, sustainable hospital-at-home model. Applicable to a broad range of clinical specialities, Virtue provisions the essential functionality for virtual hospital-at-home, at-scale.

Our Unique Platform Functionality

  • Process & Communication Automation

    Enable integration and automation of workflow and communication between multi-disciplinary teams from acute, community and home-care sectors, to ensure integrated, efficient delivery at-scale.

  • Care Quality & Safety Assurance

    Protocolisation of care activities, virtual care planning and auditable line of sight visibility of nursing observations, consultant ward rounds and in-home care, including medicines adherence.

  • Capacity & Operational Management

    Virtual ward operational management, including: command & control, capacity management, referral & discharge management, rostering, inventory, logistics and key performance indicator dashboards.

  • Biometrics Aggregation & Monitoring

    Our platform is vendor agnostic when it comes to Remote Patient Monitoring devices and software. We enable integration of the best solution for each clinical speciality, with aggregation into a single user interface for monitoring biometric data. This also enables system-wide standardisation and integrated escalation processes.

  • Patient Engagement & Multi-Channel Support

    Our platform enables multi-channel clinician to patient communication via video, voice, email, text and chat with full contact centre grade functionality, meaning every interaction is captured in a single record, service levels are maintained and distributed workforces can align around the patient.

  • Home Care Sourcing & Management

    An estimated 50% of patients who could benefit from being transferred into a virtual ward may need domiciliary care in their home, or to be cared for in a nursing home, to make this viable. Our platform enables creation of home-care packages for such patients, which are then sourced from accredited providers via our online marketplace.

Get in touch!

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