Dec 5th 2019
Syncrophi wins Irish Medtech Award for its KEWS300 product
At tonight’s Irish Medtech Association’s gala event Syncrophi Systems were awarded ‘eHealth Innovation of the Year’ for the KEWS300 system. Coming at the end of the packed two-day Medtech Rising event where KEWS300 was presented as an exemplar by the HSE’s Director of Digital Innovation, Prof. Martin Curley, the award capped a very successful year for the company.
“Syncrophi Systems is delighted to have its multi award-winning KEWS300 product shortlisted for this year’s Irish Medtech Awards event. Recognised for the transformational impact it has on point-of-care workflow, documentation accuracy and patient outcomes, KEWS300 seamlessly interfaces with ward-based medical equipment and the hospital’s information system.”
Syncrophi’s CEO, David Toohey, was delighted to be invited to speak at the inaugural Digital Academy Forum in Dr Steeven’s Hospital.
He joined a group of speakers which included Paul Reid Director General HSE, Prof. Martin Curley Director Digital Academy and Dr Colm Henry Chief Clinical Officer and Dr Michael Harty TD Chairman of the Oireachtas Health Committee among others. The forum highlighted the HSE’s commitment to embracing the power of eHealth to improve operational efficiency, better serve the patient and enhance the work environment of the HSE staff at the frontline. Syncrophi’s KEWS300 system was showcased as an exemplar in this regard. Prof. Curley also announced the launch of a Masters in Digital Health Transormation. There is a real determination to turn eHealth promise into eHealth practice.
Syncrophi Systems had all of its project deliverables reviewed during a two-day technical review by a panel of EU-appointed experts. This included reviewing the system during live monitoring of pre-term neonates in a Neonate ICU in University Hospital Rennes, France. The panel unanimously approved all of our work, and that of the entire consortium.
Syncrophi Systems has now achieved certification to the EN ISO13485: 2016 Quality Management System standard. This enables the company to meet the mandatory requirements of the EU’s Medical Device Regulation (Regulation 2017/745) which comes into force in May 2020. The MDR is a significant advance on the Medical Device Directive in terms of its level of detail and in particular it has been seen to raise the bar for so-called ‘Software as a Medical Device’.
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HIHI conducted a 9-week evaluation on Syncrophi’s KEWS300 system in a busy public hospital. The results were extremely compelling: error-rates on vital-sign charting and early-warning-scores dropped from 49% to 0% and an anonymous staff survey at the end of the trial asked for three questions to be rated on a 5-point scale (1 = much worse, 3 = no-change, 5 = much better):
| “How did the system affect patient care?” | average score 4.86 |
| “How did the system impact your productivity?” | average score 4.71 |
| “How do you rate the system’s ease-of-use?” | average score 4.57 |
Syncrophi Systems was a finalist in the eHealth Innovation of the Year category at the Irish MedTech Association’s annual awards ceremony.
Syncrophi was crowned winner of two of the eight medtech awards at the IMSTA Awards event in Dublin on Sept 27th. We won the eHealth/Digital Health Award and also the Most Cost Effective Product Award. Other award winners included J + J, Medtronic and Becton-Dickinson.
A busy paediatrics unit was the latest to benefit from adopting KEWS300. They used the systems Paediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) capability which incorporates 10 observation elements for every patient encounter and which has five distinct age-dependent charts.
The ability of KEWS300 to dramatically enhance patient safety in hospital-ward settings has been recognised by the convenors of the 2018 Patient Safety Congress in the UK. Syncrophi is proud to be shortlisted as a finalist in this important category.
