Having strong technology
can absolutely transform a hospital.
Milton Keynes University Hospital
is seen as one of the most
innovative in the NHS.
We're passionate about providing
the best possible care,
and we're keen to do
that in a seamless way.
- Working in healthcare,
obviously the data we look
after is incredibly sensitive
and we know that Microsoft
is looking after our data very securely.
The connectivity and
migration to Microsoft Azure
is incredibly smooth, fast, and efficient.
And once you've got that,
that allows you to innovate at pace
- I mean, ultimately, the hospital's there
to care for patients.
And as a clinician I want
to provide the best care
for those patients I can.
Microsoft's Office 365 was
a key part of our strategy.
That opens up all sorts of possibilities,
it's a real enabler of remote working.
Of all the products in
the Office 365 suite,
the one that we have seen
the most exponential use of
over the last 12 to 18
months would be Teams.
That that has been really quite dramatic.
People have learned to
use it and they like it.
We've also used it for
patient consultations,
and our video consultations and things.
- So for us in clinical practice,
what we really want to be able to achieve
is getting the potential
for our electronic
health record in real time,
and change that data into
information that's meaningful.
Power BI has proven to be a
really effective interface.
- It's just a game changer for us,
much easier way to
manipulate and share data.
If we could look at this stuff more
in near a real time and make changes,
we could then alter outcomes.
I, as a doctor can build
some quite good dashboards,
customizing extra columns, pivoting it,
turning it into different
types of graphics,
different types of charts, so quickly.
- In normal times, a particular
tool we were keen to use,
is a report one can dive deeply into,
and interrogate around
results endorsement.
In the olden days that would
have involved potentially
clinicians signing thousands and thousands
of pieces of paper across a year,
and now it can obviously be
done at the touch of a button.
During the Coronavirus pandemic
we need it to see where our
patients are at any one time,
to help us with infection
prevention and control.
So, what we have available to us now
is a report that refreshes,
which tells us how many patients
we have in the hospital at the moment,
who've had a positive
coronavirus swab test done,
so it's proved a vital tool really.
- What we've seen over
the last couple of years
are technologies coming in,
to deliver the safest
and most appropriate
care for the patients.
- It's kind of hard to imagine
how we would have managed
without it, to be honest.