SME News Northern Enterprise Awards 2023 / 76 Most Innovative Care Technology Company 2023 Porters Care is a family-run business and provider of innovative technology solutions that significantly enhance resident independence, increase staff productivity, and help personalise resident care. The company’s essential products provide comprehensive solutions to real world problems and are a testament to Porters Care’s commitment to providing the highest standard of care to those who need it most. Porters Care has received a Northern Enterprise Award for this year’s Most Innovative Care Technology Company. At Porters Care, the company is dedicated to supplying technology solutions to shape the evolving healthcare landscape. Through a combination of pioneering technology and advanced monitoring capabilities, its products dramatically improve patient care for elderly and vulnerable individuals. Porters Care’s premier solutions reduce the workload of healthcare staff and provide real world benefits by decreasing falls, reducing the strain of manual turns, and preventing pressure sores. The business is the sole UK distributor of Nobi Smart Lamps, Vitalerter, and GrandCare. All three independent systems provide remote contactless monitoring that prevents falls, monitors health, and promotes independent living. The Nobi Smart Lamp uses AI technology to support caregivers in residential care homes, hospitals, and home environments. The technology allows carers to provide more targeted care and spend more time engaging with residents and patients. Nobi Lamps can detect 100% of falls and offers preventive measures such as automatic lighting, alerts for frequent fallers, and fall analysis. When Nobi identifies a fall, a notification is sent to healthcare personnel so that they can quickly assist. Its corresponding app can call caregivers, family, or friends in an emergency, unlock doors, and monitor parameters such as room temperature and air quality. With fall analysis, caregivers can use information about the fall to implement preventative strategies. Porters Care also distributes Vitalerter, a care monitoring solution that assesses all individual’s vitals on a single device. Its under bed contactless sensor alerts staff when residents are about to get out of bed or require turning. All data is monitored through a cloud-hosted platform that can allow care facilities to monitor residents on a broad scale. Daily, weekly, or monthly reports can be used to prevent falls and monitor how often residents move around. Vitalerter tracks sleep quality, respiratory, and heart rates to help carers quickly respond in emergencies. GrandCare is the world’s most advanced remote monitoring platform designed to improve care outcomes and reduce costs. The technology allows caregivers to evaluate an individual’s health and wellbeing remotely regardless of location. Using an innovative cloud platform, GrandCare facilitates communication between residents and their caregivers, family, and friends. The system also allows users to access diaries, news, messages, reminders, audio books, video calling, photos, and much more. Its monitoring capabilities ensure that carers can track health, movement, and medication while providing residents with choice and independence. With an increasing number of people experiencing chronic health problems, falls and pressure sores are the two biggest challenges affecting the elderly and vulnerable population. Academic research indicates that when an elderly person falls, only 20% can use a nurse call system to request help. With 82% of elderly residents struggling to utilise traditional call systems, technology is necessary to transform patient care. Porters Care monitoring solutions are designed to address these challenges and provide actionable insights that prevent falls, reduce turn checks for pressure sores, and transform the quality of care individuals receive. Porters Care’s work with the NHS has secured the company DTAC approval (Digital Technology Assessment Criteria), assuring staff and users that its technology meets clinical safety, data protection, technical security, usability, and accessibility standards. DTAC was created to help healthcare organisations ensure that digital technologies meet baseline standards, and it is used by the NHS and social care. The Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria (AHSN NENC) conducted a real-world evaluation of Vitalerter and determined that the technology contributes to a significant reduction in falls (53% against baseline). The solution also reduced the number of manual turns required meaning that staff could utilise their time more effectively. Looking to the future, Porters Care aims to replace traditional nurse call solutions with its advanced solutions and become a standard package in all new-build care homes. The business will be exhibiting at major UK care shows in the coming year. Porters Care is dedicated to enhancing patient wellbeing with its pioneering solutions. Its revolutionary products utilise innovative technology and advanced monitoring capabilities to improve patient care and reduce the burden on healthcare staff. With its dedication to ongoing development, Porters Care will continue to transform the healthcare sector and improve patients and residents’ quality of life. For its groundbreaking solutions, Porters Care has received our award for this year’s Most Innovative Care Technology Company. Contact Details Contact: David Knowles Company: Porters Care Limited Web Address: www.porterscare.co.uk
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