BASINGSTOKE, England,
February 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Capita Healthcare Decisions has developed a new triage solution
to help healthcare providers and professionals assess patients with
suspected Zika virus symptoms and enable them to provide the most
appropriate advice.
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The Zika virus is currently recognised as a public health
emergency of international concern by The World Health
Organization*.
The new triage solution will sit within Capita Healthcare
Decisions' internationally renowned clinical triage tools, enabling
patients, their relatives and clinicians to check symptoms and
concerns against clinically validated and robust criteria.
The Zika triage solution is being made available to all of
Capita Healthcare Decisions' clients, supporting more than 320m
individuals worldwide, including those in the worst affected areas,
such as Brazil.
As well as being part of tools which support telephone triage
provided by healthcare professionals, the new Zika triage solution
will also be available for use directly by patients and carers to
check their own symptoms and concerns, or those of someone they are
concerned about using Capita Healthcare Decisions' web-based
self-triage solution. Supporting patients' self-care in this way
avoids medical facilities becoming overwhelmed, and means people
potentially infected with the Zika virus can be treated quickly and
in the most appropriate way.
Dr Charles Young, chief medical
officer at Capita Healthcare Decisions, said: "The agility of our
software and our clinical expertise means we can and do react
quickly and efficiently to developing healthcare emergencies. Our
clinical systems are continually updated to take into account new
advice and best practice so clinicians are able to offer the most
up-to-date guidance. The aim with this new Zika-focused tool is to
enable those who may have symptoms of the Zika virus to receive the
most appropriate advice from healthcare professionals, as quickly
as possible."
Notes to editors
*http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/zika/en/
About Capita Healthcare Decisions (formerly Clinical
Solutions)
We transform healthcare decision making. Our solutions support
healthcare providers to make better decisions about their patients,
and empower individuals to make better decisions about their own
health and wellbeing. Over the past 15 years, our decision support
software applications have been used by some of the world's leading
healthcare providers to power over 85m patient transactions. Capita
Healthcare Decisions brings together clinical expertise and Silicon
Valley innovation to power decision support which delivers more for
less and is underpinned by three principles: safe, connected,
useful. For more information go to
http://www.capita.co.uk/healthcaredecisions