First thing in the morning Alice launches the MIA Maternity app on her iPad and connects to a network while she’s having breakfast at home. MIA automatically synchronises all patient and observations data from her team as well as Alice’s appointment list for the day. This takes seconds. Alice can easily flick back through patient notes so she is up to date with them before she visits their house. Alice can then pack the iPad away and start her day, without needing to go into the community hub where she works.
MIA Maternity knows the location of each mother and baby and will automatically display the nearest patient based on proximity to Alice using GPS which saves her having to search for each patient address as well as being more efficient with fuel.
Whilst with mum, observations are recorded straight into MIA on the iPad, together with the patient’s next appointment or discharge details if applicable. A dashboard highlights whether a Pathway form must be completed, together with reminders for time-constraint items such as Newborn Bloodspot Screening Tests. The observations are done with intuitive drop down menus and toggle selections, rather than having to write everything up, this increases the data quality, as all of Alice’s team will use the same standards, rather than having to read through pages of written notes. There is also a place for typing should any notes be absolutely necessary.
If Alice visits a patient in a rural area or somewhere without any signal there is no compromise to what information she can input, the functionality of MIA is the same. MIA will alert Alice when it is working offline, and keep track of how many records have been input since the last synchronise. This encourages Alice to keep MIA up to date so it can push all of the data straight back into the hospital’s internal data system- all without an administrator having to duplicate Alice’s work and typing up handwritten notes!
Each midwife in the team has access to all patient information for that team so can quickly review notes for any patient. So any information Alice inputs to MIA will be available for the whole team to see, most importantly for the next midwife who comes to visit mum and baby. This is particularly helpful if someone is on holiday or off, anyone else in the team can easily pick up on the important information.
At the end of the day Alice can go online anywhere with a secure data connection and MIA automatically synchronises all patient records, pathway forms, observations and appointments. After just a few seconds the synchronisation is complete and the iPad can be packed away or used normally as a personal device – as no NHS data can be accessed without Alice’s NHS smartcard.
