The Institute of Tralee (IT Tralee), which has been named as the ninth member of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, has announced a new €400,000 research programme.
The programme is one of a number of initiatives marking a collaboration between IT Tralee and Bon Secours Hospital Tralee (BSHT) to develop new activities in teaching, research and education. Today also saw the signing of a formal agreement between IT Tralee and Bon Secours Hospital Tralee to mark this enhanced partnership arrangement.
The Lero projects which will run under the programme are designed to optimise patient care at the Tralee Hospital by ensuring the efficient use of resources.
The three-year programme will analyse current procedures for bed management and theatre scheduling and pilot the application of intelligent systems to improve relevant patient pathways.
“Efficient resource management, particularly bed management, is a critical issue right across the Irish health sector,” said Dr Joseph Walsh, Lero principal investigator, IT Tralee. “Clever use of technology such as the implementation of systems of this type can result in the efficient use of beds across the health system without major capital spending. Bon Secours aims to use the benefits of this research across its other four hospitals in Ireland.”
TJ O’Connor, hospital manager, Bon Secours Hospital Tralee, said: “We are looking at our processes from the patient’s point of view and working to remove steps in the delivery of our service that the patient would not find valuable. This programme will benefit our hospital and staff as well as our patients by releasing staff time for care.”
Prof Ita Richardson, co-principal Investigator of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, said: “The programme will help achieve earlier patient admission and ensure multi-disciplinary access to information on bed and surgical resource availability as well as discharge status of a patient.”
The Bon Secours Health System is the largest private healthcare provider in Ireland, comprising five hospitals in Tralee, Cork, Dublin, Galway and Limerick and a Care Village in Cork.
Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, boasts a membership from Dublin City University, Dundalk Institute of Technology, NUI Galway, Maynooth University, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin and University of Limerick.
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