A decade of safer, smarter ICU care with MetaVision at Medway Maritime

Highlights

Hospital profile
- Major acute teaching hospital serving Medway and the surrounding areas of Kent
- 20-bed intensive care unit admitting around 100 patients each month
The challenge
- The hospital’s general electronic health record system could not handle the ICU’s high data complexity
- Flexible, critical care-specific tools were needed to adapt quickly to dynamic clinical situations and updated guidance
The results
- MetaVision manages extensive ICU data and integrates safely with hospital systems
- Customizable order sets improve patient safety and support clinical consistency
- Local teams can rapidly adapt clinical workflows in response to new guidance or safety incidents

About the Hospital

Medway NHS Foundation Trust runs Medway Maritime Hospital, a major acute and teaching hospital serving Medway and neighboring areas in north Kent, UK. With around 500 beds, the hospital provides a full range of acute and specialist services, including emergency and critical care, surgery, maternity, and pediatrics. Medway Maritime also supports medical and nursing education, helping to train the next generation of healthcare professionals across Kent and the surrounding areas.

“MetaVision handles so many different data points. It’s so complex that we wouldn’t have been able to have all the information available to us on a generic ward-based electronic healthcare record.”
Dr. Rachel Krol, Consultant in Critical Care, Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Medway Maritime Hospital, UK

MetaVision captures and manages thousands of data points in a highly complex environment – capabilities a generic ward electronic health record just can’t provide

Highlights

About the Hospital