IG&H, a partner of OutSystems with offices in the Netherlands and Portugal is coordinating the National Coordination Centre for Patient Evacuation (LCPS). The aim of LCPS is to spread the workload and care capacities across hospitals as effectively as possible. Therefor they needed to manage the available resources in each hospital and coordinate all patient transport movements across hospitals in real-time.
To avoid a possible catastrophic scenario, a management tool needed to be built very fast and with high standards of quality.
The PMR (Patient Movement Request) tool was built with OutSystems by IG&H and was up and running in less than 2 weeks. This new centralized tool replaced shared files and whiteboards that were being used before. The result was impressive, not only did it improve the effectiveness of all staff involved, but is also created a new set of capabilities (i.e. auditing and reporting). The adoption by the users was almost instantaneous and the feedback that started to reach the Development Team was great.
The PMR-tool covers 119 hospitals in the Netherlands and Germany. The PMR-tool provides real-time overview dashboards and other web pages that manage the process of each patient’s transport movement. These include the workflow of identifying the criticality of each case, then finding the best hospital and managing the specific transport according to the situation of the patient. These decisions are based on 90+ different input fields, that lead to the most favorable solution.
Following the success of the PMR-tool, LCPS identified one other urgent necessity that could be tackled with Low Code, the result is the COVID19 NL-DE Kooperation Webportal and a tool managing the allocation and distribution of mission critical equipment like ventilators and IV-pumps called MedOps. The Kooperation portal has been built with OutSystems and is a web application portal that manages the availability of German hospitals to receive Dutch ICU-patients. Dashboards and web pages deliver the information that the application receives directly from the hospitals and transform it in a way that immediately shows the users the most useful information quickly and if needed that information can be drilled down to the required level of detail.
This solution was only possible due to the contributions of OutSystems by providing the necessary infrastructure, deep expertise and support, the Dutch Ministry of Health and the Dutch Army that helped defining the solution process, and by IG&H Health sector knowledge.
Contact Nuno Pacheco E: nuno.pacheco@igh.com