Digital Gait Analysis System for Endpoint Measurement and Guiding Rehabilitation

GaitSmart tests compare individual gait measurements against the healthy norm and give an easy to understand overall GaitSmart Score.

The GaitSmart Report helps people to understand the cause and severity of any gait issues and enables them to gain more control over their health by addressing the underlying problems.

GaitSmart tests can identify certain conditions that can worsen over time without treatment.

Improving gait can reduce the risk of falls , fear of falls, and overall frailty, allowing individuals to live normal lives for as long as possible.

  • NICE identified that GaitSmart intervention does address

    the falls care pathway via meta-analysis.

  • NHS studies show GaitSmart intervention is clinically

    beneficial to the sectors of falls and frailty

  • Health Economic Model shows the GaitSmart intervention programme is cost effective

  • Eastern AHSN Innovation Review panel

    Excellent scores of 88% for defining unmet need in healthcare and 84% for describing how our solution can solve unmet need.

Fully Integrated With

 

25 million patients that have an active Eclipse portal. Supporting at risk patients through integrated technological enabled care services. The GaitSmart Eclipse Connect service enables:

  1. Central identification of patients at-risk within these pathways, including utilisation of the standardised electronic Frailty Index (eFI) score.

  2. Standardised Communication with all these patients to engage them via an onlinepatient portal, supported by a specialist engagement team for those patients that are digitally deprived,, with questionnaires to gather on-going patient feedback and insight.

  3. Bespoke communication with vulnerable patient groups, ensuring equality of service access.

  4. Evaluation of the feedback to enable enhanced reviews by the service and/or local clinical teams.

  5. Ensure patient appropriately investigated and any background risks addressed.

  6. Provide defined vulnerable / at risk patients with additional support and monitoring

  7. GaitSmart assessment programme and other self monitoring capability to minimise risk and optimise patient wellbeing.

  8. Prioritisation of the Patients into 4 distinct groups.

    1. Confirmation that specialist falls and frailty services are required.

    2. Gait anomaly identified or other clinical risk identified within the service that may respond to social prescribing and/or GaitSmart Standardised Assessment and Individual Exercise plan.

    3. Significant clinical risk prioritising referral to an alternative pathway (locally defined) patient insight and feedback enabling removal from referral pathway waiting list.

    4. Validation of impact including equality of care analysis of the CONNECT programme.

 
 

  • Step 1: Identification of Patients

    The system undertakes a Gap Analysis to identify missing information or patients in need of a review. It also enables prioritisation of patients through standardised criteria. Patients from vulnerable cohorts and lower socio-economic locations can be identified to enable appropriate support implementations. This enables effective use of healthcare workers to focus on those individuals with the greatest need.

  • Step 2: Patient Review

    Standardised centralised patient review capability.

  • Step 3: Patient Engagement

    Our award winning patient engagement programme enables appropriate prioritisation and effective communication with patients, improving health outcomes whilst reducing workload for health and social care services.

  • Step 4: GaitSmart Enhanced Patient Analysis & Monitoring

    By involving patients to participate in their own care plan compliance and outcomes are optimised. The GaitSmart report will enable consequent care plan.

  • Step 5: Standardised Individual Exercise Plan

    GaitSmart enables standrdised individual exercise plans to be automatically generated removing requirement for additional physiotherapy services.

  • Step 6 - Effective Outcomes & Equality of Care

    Our service guarantees to improve your healthcare and equality targets for your chosen clinical pathways. Longitudinal tracking of live data enables monthly updates to be provided for key stakeholders within the project. Our VISTA outcome system is widely regarded as the best outcome analytics platform in healthcare.

Additional Service Benefits

  • Significant improvements in the delivery of integrated care across the region.

  • Concordance with the four key priority deliverables for NHS England (Excellence, Equality, Efficiency, Wellbeing).

  • Better use of technology to improve the Patient Safety for our vulnerable patient groups

  • The potential to reduce secondary care costs and unplanned admissions.

  • Provide an exemplar of best practice to the NHS

  • No increase in burden on Primary Care, with potential for reduction due to e.g, reduced likelihood of falls.

  • The ability to encourage lifestyle changes that significantly reduce pathway complication rates and increase confidence by empowering patients and providing them with the ability to quantitatively track improvements in their gait, weight and activity levels.

  • The ability to provide a continual communication channel with patients via the service patient portal and service team.

GaitSmart assessment and vGym personalised exercise rehabilitation programme for people with gait and mobility issues

 

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