Alcidion Group Limited advised that it has signed a 5 year agreement with East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (East Lancashire) to implement the Miya Flow module of Miya Precision. The implementation of Miya Flow represents an upgrade to the existing ExtraMed patient flow solution which has been used at East Lancashire for almost a decade. This contract also represents the first customer upgrade from ExtraMed's flow solution to Miya Flow following Alcidion's purchase of ExtraMed in April 2021.

The new system will help busy wards and clinical teams, located across the large integrated healthcare organisation's two acute hospitals and two community hospitals, to ensure streamlined admission, timely care and effective discharge management of 700,000 patients. Miya Flow will provide clinical specialties with bespoke electronic journey boards that show important relevant information at-a-glance, for the patients in their care. This will mean that ward staff, medical staff, dieticians, therapists, pharmacists and a range of specialist clinical teams will have easier visibility of what they need to do to ensure patients move forward in their care journey without delays.

Deployment of the system will accompany the go-live of an electronic patient record (EPR), as the trust advances its digital transformation journey. The comprehensive display of NHS clinical workflow aligned information available in Miya Flow will overlay and integrate bi-directionally with the Cerner Millennium EPR and other trust systems, including Alcidion's Miya Observations and Smartpage solutions. The existing ExtraMed system has been in place for nearly a decade and has delivered significant benefits in moving flow related information from paper forms to more accessible digital information.

It has also supported digital handover, specialist team referrals and provided intelligence to manage length of stay. The trust will be the first to upgrade from ExtraMed to Miya Flow which will also create the potential to use the new system to support virtual wards in the community.