iNurse moves onto BlackBerry

Advanced Health and Care has announced that iNurse mobile solution can now be used on BlackBerry devices.

iNurse enables community nurses to download appointments and patient notes to a handheld device and to update these during visits. Team leaders can use the system to plan team rotas, re-allocate work and collect management information.

The system was trialled in Derby and is now used by community nursing teams within Bedfordshire Primary Care Trust/Bedfordshire Community Health Service and the MedOCC (Medway On Call Care) community night nursing team in Kent.

Carrie Goodbourn, business development director at Advanced Health and Care, said: “Our partnership with BlackBerry puts iNurse within reach of thousands more NHS employees, and will enable managers to implement the system very cost-effectively.”

Daniel Morrison-Gardiner, senior government account manager at Research in Motion, developers of BlackBerry, said: “A solution like iNurse – that cuts out administration and travel and increases patient-facing time – is a very compelling one.

"It has clear potential to benefit not only the NHS but any health or social care organisation with a mobile workforce.”

Advanced Health and Care is a company within the Advanced Computer Software (ACS) group that includes out-of-hours software provider Adastra, which originally developed the iNurse.

ACS has bought a number of other health and social care IT companies, including a hosting and a staff rostering firm.

Link: Advanced Health and Care