Mental health care can be a challenging experience both for those giving and receiving it. Oxehealth has been working on that challenge with clinicians, patients and carers since being spun out of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in 2012.
The company’s contactless patient monitoring platform, Oxevision, supports clinicians in mental health hospitals to observe patients, intervene when necessary and plan patient care. Oxevision integrates camera-based hardware with a suite of software modules, including world-first medical devices for vital signs and sleep monitoring. Staff can interact with the platform using portable tablets or a fixed screen in the nursing station.
Oxehealth technology has been deployed across over 100 sites in the UK, US and Europe – including 50% of English NHS mental health trusts. Evaluations of the technology show impressive results, including a 44% reduction in bedroom self-harm in acute settings and a 48% reduction in night-time falls among older patients.
One patient who stayed in a room fitted with Oxevision says: “It can only benefit treatment. I would say it’s an aid to nursing and it’s a positive for patients who are getting better treatment, because the monitor is on the ball and the nurses are on the ball straight away should there be an alert. Only good things could be said about it.”
