News from Recap Health
Twelve Trusts To Start Using Recap Health
Derbyshire Community Health Services and Lincolnshire Community Health Services have recently started using Recap Health.
In addition, we have started ‘onboarding’ work with 10 other Trusts. These should be ‘up and running’ in the next 4 -8 weeks, once Information Governance approval has been gained.
Quietly making progress!
BMJ Opinion Piece
Roger Marlow, our Director of Technology has co-authored this Christmas BMJ Opinion piece with David Rosewarne, Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust.
They argue that NHS IT departments should spend more time helping IT literate clinicians harvest data to quickly deliver more efficient care. Big IT is not always best!
Better Support
We have lots of clinicians working in NHS Trusts, who have administrator credentials for Recap Health locally. Usually these are busy people who have an interest in digital. We want to support these people better. To this end we’ve provided a suite of 16 ‘bite-sized how to’ videos, including how to:
Add new educational material to the library
View content read rates by patient
Create ‘default’ content for teams, services and the whole organisation
Choose patient notifications/nudges to go out at various frequencies
This is all part of our new focus on making Recap health as easy to use as possible.
Recap Welcomes Use by NHS Midlands Cardiac Network
The 21 NHS Trust strong Midlands Cardiac Network has decided to use Recap Health to provide educational support to patients.
This is the first time Recap Health has been used by clinicians working across a network and we are excited to help member NHS Trusts demonstrate effective collaborative working in practice. Soon they’ll be a shared library of educational materials used by clinicians in multiple Trusts to provide consistent and high quality support to patients.
Over time, all Trusts will be onboarded, but in the next 3 months we will focus on helping 9 sites from 4 Trusts to get started.
Digital Patient Education in Maternal Health
There is an interesting systematic review in Parent Education and Counseling Journal about the role of digital patient education in maternal health. Covering 55 studies and pilots found via a PubMed search by Canadian academics they find lots of evidence that digital education offers significant benefits (and has risks!).
Also, the 82 references are a great resource for any NHS professional or researcher seeking more information about this growing area of healthcare.
It’s good to see that Recap Health mitigates a lot of the risks, because clinicians approve the content that is offered to expectant mothers. This de-risks alot of the content.
Version 9.0 Live
The latest release of Recap Health, version 9.0, is live.
In addition to getting onto the latest releases of our web framework, content editor, API manager and identity managers, the content management system has an upgraded search index for blazingly fast searches when clinicians are finding information to send to patients.
We also keep up to date with the very latest security recommendations and release 9.0 keeps Recap on the cutting edge for security best practice. In doing a top-to-bottom upgrade like this we are greatly assisted by the high automated test coverage that Recap enjoys, and on this release we managed to up it even further to an amazing 94.3% coverage.
Improving Staff Return to Work Rates
Alongside widespread use with patients, University Hospitals of North Midlands are now using Recap Health to send low back pain information to absent staff. We must confess that accelerating return to work was not a use case we had in mind when we built Recap. But in retrospect it makes perfect sense for NHS Trusts to use Recap in this way as well. Staff are also sometimes patients!
From 1 Million to 3 Million
The latest release of Recap Health, version 9.0, has just gone live. Recap Health distributed its 1,000,000th piece of educational content to patients recently and this upgrade ensures it has plenty of capacity for the next million or two!
In addition to getting onto the latest releases of our web framework, content editor, API manager and identity managers, the content management system has an upgraded search index for blazingly fast searches when clinicians are finding information to send to patients. We also keep up to date with the very latest security recommendations and release 9.0 keeps Recap on the cutting edge for security best practice. In doing a top-to-bottom upgrade like this we are greatly assisted by the high automated test coverage that Recap enjoys, and on this release we managed to up it even further to an amazing 94.3% coverage.
New Partnership
We are delighted to announce a new partnership with our friends at Parsek Group. Recap Health, interoperating with Parsek's sophisticated Vitaly care coordination platform, will give NHS Trusts and patients a more comprehensive service, enabling clinicians to provide trusted self-care educational material alongside the appointment, monitoring and pathway management services that Vitaly already offers.
We are sure, in future, NHS Trusts and ICS’s will want to commission and use digital platforms that offer comprehensive, one-stop services for clinicians and patients. This new partnership is a great example of how digital health companies can help make this easier for them to do this.
Learn more about Parsek’s digital Care Coordination service https://parsek.com/solution/coordinated-care
Local Administration Module Now Live
We've just released our Local Administration module, designed to allow NHS Trusts to enable use of Recap Health at a Service level instead of a Trust-wide level. For example, now designated PreAMS, COPD or Heart Failure staff have the option to fully control how Recap Health is used with their patients. But their patients alone. We are learning through real-world use!
Webinar: Reducing Heart Failure Readmissions
University Hospitals of North Midlands led a digital heart failure initiative, that included use of Recap Health, that won the Driving Efficiency Through Technology Award at the 2020 HSJ Awards.
An independent evaluation of the 18 month initiative found:
- significant reductions to readmission rates at 3 and 6 months (45% relative risk reduction at 6 months)
- 77% of patients reporting a significant increase in self-efficacy scores at 3 months
Dr Dargoi Satchi, Consultant Cardiologist at UHNM is presenting more information about the project on a webinar on 29th October at 3pm - 3.45pm. Please register here if you'd like to know more.
Elective Recovery in the NHS
As part of the NHS's elective recovery work we are keen to work with a NHS Trust that can advise us on feature changes to 'fine-tune' Recap Health so it delivers appropriate educational content on a timeline linked to and after surgery dates for each patient. Should be relatively quick and easy to do.
We want to help change waiting lists to preparation lists and support patients through the whole perioperative process.
If you are interested in working with us on this please do get in touch
90% Rating for Recap Health
ORCHA, the global leader in providing access to trusted digital health technologies, has just rated Recap Health at 90%. This places Recap in the top 2% of all apps rated so far.
“We are delighted with our 90% rating” says Paul Hanks, Head of Product Development. “Hopefully this will help NHS Trusts and ICS’s to have even more confidence in Recap Health as as safe and competent digital tool”.
Pre Admissions Service Live
Delighted that the Pre Admission service at Royal Stoke University Hospitals is now live with Recap Health. Great to see another new use case.
From today, all elective patients will be offered the opportunity to have information digitally via Recap Health. Core information about different types of anaesthesia and how to prepare for surgery on the day, plus bespoke information depending on the specific planned procedure.
Big Increase in UK Internet Use
The Lloyds Bank UK Consumer Digital Index 2021 report is the largest study of digital and financial lives in the UK. It provides a snapshot of digital engagement in the UK during lockdown.
In summary, as we have been confined to living in our homes, the need for social interaction has moved online with many people engaging in digital activities for the first time. These activities include, shopping, news consumption, family connections, access to benefits/job searching, and mental/physical health information.
A few highlights:
1.5 million more people started using the internet in 2020
95% of the UK population is now online
17% of 60-69 year olds say their use of the internet has increased a lot during the Coronavirus crisis. 27% say it has increased a little
49% of UK consumers report that the internet helps them to manage and improve their physical and mental health (e.g. receiving help and advice online or using health apps for fitness/well-being). It was 35% in 2020.
Download the full report at https://www.lloydsbank.com/banking-with-us/whats-happening/consumer-digital-index.html
Content Curation Service Launched
We now offer a Content Curation service for Recap Health. Our team of professional health care information specialists will quickly curate high quality content (videos, webpages, leaflets, apps etc) for a wide range of healthcare topics and add this into pre-agreed packs within the library.
Once clinicians review and sign-off on this content it is pushed to live for use with patients. Clinicians can still add their own content and source third party content themselves, but our content curation service helps them get started quickly and extend their local libraries, so they can serve patients better.
Cardiac Rehab Success at UHNM
The Cardiac Rehab service at UHNM went live with Recap Health 6 months ago and it’s been a great success.
To-date, 391 patients have accounts and receive tailored rehab information in videos, produced by the UHNM team. Feedback has been great.
91% of patients registered to use Recap Health say it is very useful or useful
93% rate the content sent via Recap Health to be very useful or useful
The new virtual /face to face ‘blended’ service model has meant the team is projecting savings of £20,000 per year on venue, postage and travel expenses and £17,500 per year of travel time savings. Time that can be redirected at higher value activities.
“Recap has been a fantastic system that works particularly well for rehab and everyone in the team is committed to its ongoing use.” Sonya Lockett, UHNM Cardiac Rehabilitation Service Lead
Work is now underway to assess the impact Recap Health is having on readmission rates for these patients.
“Like earlier evaluation with heart failure patients at UHNM, we’re hoping this readmission data review will demonstrate significantly greater benefits to UHNM than the projected savings from the new operation model alone”. Steve Pashley, Health2Works MD.
Request the Cardiac Rehab case study to see more information about his work.
Personal Health Record Integration Successful
We have successfully integrated Recap Health into a Personal Health Record (PHR) citizen portal, commissioned by NHS Cheshire & Merseyside’s Regional Digital programme.
Featuring user single sign-on and access via NHS Login, we partnered with Mindwave, the agency chosen to be the core PHR developer.
Ultimately, all 2.6 million citizens within the Region will be able to receive relevant healthcare educational material, delivered by Recap Health. The next phase will be to start rolling out access to some of the region’s 2.6 million citizens in the remainder of 2021.
Recap Health wins HSJ Award
We’re delighted that Recap Health is part of a winning team. At the recent prestigious HSJ Awards 2020, the Smart with Your Heart initiative, led by Dr Dargoi Satchi, Heart Failure Cardiologist at UHNM, won in the Driving Efficiency Through Technology category.
An independent evaluation, funded by NHS England, reported a 42% reduction in Heart Failure readmissions over 6 months. In addition, 77% of patients reported a significant increase in self-efficacy scores (at three months) using a validated cardiomyopathy questionnaire.
Shortlisted: Three HSJ Awards
We're part of a digital initiative, led by UHNM, that has been shortlisted in 3 categories for the HSJ Awards 2020. Acute Sector Innovation of the Year; Digitising Patient Services and Driving Efficiency through Technology. Here’s a list of all shortlisted candidates.
The initiative, called ‘Smart with your Heart’, has been running for 18 months and is now proven to make a real difference for heart failure patients across Staffordshire. See our Impact page for more information about the results.
Shout out to our other partners on this initiative. Midland Partnerships NHS FT, Simple Shared Healthcare , Signum Health and Pumping Marvellous .