Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with 6PM’s iFIT tracking solution for tracking paper health records.

All the health records will be tagged with a radio frequency tag. Sensors located in key areas around the hospital will automatically pick up the movement of the record, in real time, as it moves from one place to another.

Robert Waddup, health records superviser at Homerton, said: “Trying to locate notes is an avoidable, time consuming process. iFIT will now help the trust reduce this to an absolute minimum. Using handheld electronic trackers, the medical records team will be able to find a single set of notes in the libraries or in the offices, where a lot of notes are stored.”

The storage of notes within health records will also change as notes will no longer be filed in number sequence. Instead, when records are returned to the records store, the notes will be tracked with handheld devices and filed in the ‘next available’ slot, with the location scanned in to the system. This will significantly reduce the amount of time clerks spend refiling notes.

Homerton is also working with 6PM to track medical devices, bed frames, mattresses and wheelchairs.