A new strategic partnership between two leading medtech companies is set to help tackle the “bottlenecks” in the time-critical stroke care pathway.
Visionable, a real-time clinical collaboration platform enabling virtual healthcare models, and Brainomix – an AI-powered solutions company – are to work together to transform the delivery of stroke care.
The two tech-enabled health companies have partnered to collaborate and co-market two complementary solutions through Visionable’s collaboration platform and Brainomix’s e-Stroke AI software to enhance stroke care delivery across the end-to-end pathway, from pre-acute to the intra-hospital.
Visionable’s next-generation digital healthcare collaboration platform is combined with Brainomix’s e-Stroke software in an approach which is saving time, reducing workload and supporting improved outcomes which aligns with the UK national strategy to drive integration and efficiency for better care.
Its strategic partnership is already delivering results at Ipswich Hospital, where the stroke team are seeing positive results through faster delivery of care, superior performance metrics and, crucially, improved patient outcomes.
Lynda Sibson, telemedicine manager at East of England Stroke Telemedicine Partnership, works across the region to support the transformation of stroke care through the adoption of innovative digital tools. She played a central role in introducing the two solutions to Ipswich Hospital.
“Both systems are easy and intuitive to operate, and highly complementary, ensuring timely sharing of clinical and radiological information that ultimately enables faster patient transfers,” she said.
“The companies are true partners, easy to work with and highly responsive. We have also found that the technologies are affording our clinicians more flexibility and an improved work-life balance – not something to be underestimated!”
Dr Sajid Alam, stroke consultant at Ipswich Hospital, said: “As a district general hospital, we don’t have ready access to dedicated neuroradiologists to interpret every stroke scan.
“Having the AI software gives us more confidence when interpreting each scan – particularly the CTAs, where we look for a large vessel occlusion (LVO), a key indicator of patient eligibility for mechanical thrombectomy.”
Patients admitted to Ipswich Hospital who are eligible for mechanical thrombectomy are transferred to the Royal London Hospital (RLH), a comprehensive stroke centre in Whitechapel that serves as a supraregional thrombectomy hub for Ipswich and a number of other stroke units across the South East of England.
Dr Alam added: “In stroke, time is critical. Using e-Stroke saves precious minutes, as the scans are immediately available for viewing on the Brainomix web portal. With RLH also using e-Stroke, we can communicate instantly, share images and make transfer decisions without delay.”
Recent performance metrics indicate that Ipswich Hospital is delivering best in-class service, with the proportion of patients being assessed by a stroke consultant within 24 hours above the national average (90.4 per cent vs 82.9 per cent), along with how quickly that assessment takes place from admission (four hours 20 minutes compared to nine hours 53 minutes nationally).
This partnership is the latest in a series of collaborations that Visionable has brokered with partner health tech organisations that offer complementary services that enhance the delivery of care.
Rob Hughes, chief commercial officer at Visionable, said: “Technology must make life easier for clinicians and improve treatment for patients; Brainomix and Visionable are delivering value in both areas. Combined, our complementary solutions have resulted in quicker delivery of care, instant access to rich data and improved patient outcomes – all while boosting job satisfaction for clinicians.
“The success so far is exciting, and we look forward to the growing impact our partnership will have on the quality of care for stroke patients.”
Riaz Rahman, VP healthcare global at Brainomix, added: “The strength of combining the proven technologies of Visionable and Brainomix means easy and instantaneous access to rich critical clinical information across the pre-acute and intra-hospital phases of stroke care.
“Our joint approach will tackle head on many of the known systems bottlenecks where multiple stroke centres are involved in a highly time sensitive pathway.
“We are excited by the enhanced efficiency and value our partnership will bring to healthcare professionals and our customers and look forward to accelerating the adoption of our combined systems under our partnership.”
