Photos: How touchscreen tech helps a hospital keep tabs on patients

Walsall Manor Hospital is helping its doctors and nursing staff save time, thanks to a new system that tracks patients and beds.

The hospital has installed a Horizon Enterprise Visibility system, which pulls information from different hospital systems to show medical staff when beds are free, who is waiting to be discharged and when imaging and lab results and prescriptions are ready, and has already helped the hospital speed up the bed allocation process for planned admissions by up to three hours.

The system displays information on large LCD screens on the ward, shown here, which staff control through a touchscreen interface.

Photo credit: Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust