Feedback PLC (LSE:FDBK) launched a new addition to its Bleepa medical diagnostic app that allows patient records to be stored individually and accessed securely and quickly using the cloud network.
Bleepa enables physicians to look at patient data, including images, on a mobile phone to help with diagnosis.
The new tool, called CareLocker, takes the data available on the Bleepa app and makes it accessible in any care setting.
Tom Oakley, Feedback's chief executive, said: "We have been working on this concept for many months in order to position Bleepa for multi-site adoption and to meet the emerging needs of the Community Diagnostic Hub (CDH) initiative to address the elective care backlog.
“Currently patient data is siloed within disparate hospital systems and within individual clinical settings, this makes delivering regional care extremely difficult.
“In some cases it can take hours to transfer imaging between two hospitals and this ultimately effects patient care.
“CareLocker is a solution that can transform care delivery at an individual hospital, regional or even national level.
CDH is the recently launched NHS England £10bn Community Diagnostic Hub.
It's an initiative designed to tackle the elective care backlog by taking diagnoses out of hospitals as much as possible into clinics for example.
CDHs will typically complete a suite of diagnostic tests, said Feedback, the results of which must all be made available to the clinical teams, both in the primary and secondary care setting.
This end-to-end patient-specific pathway requires a digital infrastructure designed to both connect clinical teams and manage the associated data flow.
Bleepa and CareLocker in combination provide this, it said, with Bleepa as an application and user interface and CareLocker as the underlying data architecture.
“Patient-centric cloud storage is the future of medical data and a natural result of patient-centred care,” added Oakley.