Patient-monitoring system

Tender description

This procurement was awarded in April 2020 for access to the ‘Medopad software as a service and Application’ for a pilot in two London NHS Trusts. The supplier was selected as they hold the IPR or provision of their remote system, mobile application. This was provided pro bono for the period 20 April 2020 to 31 December 2020 inclusive. However, DHSC had to purchase 20 000 Pulse Oximeters at pace to allocate to the Pilot's patients, and these were in short supply and high demand in April 2020, as a number of countries were rolling out a similar pilot scheme. DHSC agreed one-off supply contract for these Pulse Oximeters via Huma's supply chain to ensure stock was available immediately, and configured to meet the Pilot's specification. A programme to deploy remote monitoring of Covid patients NHSX was reviewing the deployment of remote monitoring to ensure that patients have access to medical care during the Covid-19 pandemic. Medopad (owned by Huma Therapeutics Ltd) is a remote monitoring product that had completed the Digital Health London accelerator, and had approached NHSX (following the national call for innovator assistance) following their similar work with other EU governments, as part of their Covid19 response. The two use cases is for this programme of work were to perform daily monitoring on the Covid-19 patients that had been recently discharged from hospital and provide an electronic monitoring of potential Covid-19 patients who were routed through primary care hot hubs. Both use cases allowed the early identification of deterioration of patients and ensure that health professionals could intervene before their patients found it difficult to breath and had long lasting damage to their lungs. This procurement was for access to the ‘Medopad software as a service and Application’ for a pilot in two London NHS Trusts. The supplier was selected as they hold the IPR or provision of their remote system, mobile application. This was provided pro bono for the period 20 April 2020 to 31 December 2020 inclusive. However, DHSC had to purchase 20 000 Pulse Oximeters at pace to allocate to the Pilot's patients and these were in short supply and high demand in April 2020, as a number of countries were rolling out a similar pilot scheme. DHSC agreed one-off supply contract for these Pulse Oximeters via Huma's supply chain to ensure stock was available immediately, and configured to meet the Pilot's specification..