Orthopaedic clinical data capture at its best
How the Amplitude system made reliable, easy data capture a breeze at Fortius Clinic. Fortius Clinic, based in Central London, provides specialist private care for orthopaedic complaints and sports injuries. Equipped with a full range of first-class medical facilities, including access to surgery in the capital’s leading
The backbone of the British Spine Registry
How BASS and Amplitude’s collaboration helped create a well subscribed registry BASS knew exactly what it wanted to achieve with the British Spine Registry. They needed the ability to collect, monitor and analyse a significant amount of data on procedures, treatment
Interesting NHS data no-one is looking at
Last week, John Appleby, chief economist at the King's Fund, wrote a cry of help. One of the most interesting and important set of statistics in the NHS is being neglected. And he's right to be annoyed. The statistics - known as
NHS chief: surgeons have ‘moral responsibility’ to publish death rates
NHS chief, Sir Bruce Keogh’s crusade for transparency results in launch of website containing data on outcomes for 5,000 surgeons Surgeons have a moral responsibility to make public their death rates in operations according to the medical director of the NHS. Sir
Jeremy Hunt calls on NHS to deliver £10bn a year efficiency savings
The NHS must save up to £10bn a year by 2020 by reducing its use of agency staff and management consultants, selling off unused property and cutting clinical errors, the health secretary has said. Speaking at yesterday’s King's Fund annual conference
How technology is changing healthcare and how my company is making it happen
Collecting clinical outcomes data is becoming a mandatory process. Providing this data, in addition to meeting treatment targets, has the potential to overwhelm clinicians and hospitals. A lot of clinicians are also concerned that if they do not take control
The UKKOR registry has launched
Amplitude were thrilled to attend the launch of the first registry in the world dedicated to recording patient outcomes from knee osteotomy. The UK Knee Osteotomy Registry (UKKOR) has been established by faculty members from the Basingstoke Knee Osteotomy Masterclass
BOTA audit project
Amplitude is working in partnership with The British Orthopaedic Training Association (BOTA) by providing them with an electronic platform to collect data for their “trauma snap shot project”. The aim of the audit is to provide a "snapshot" in time of
Clinical Outcomes – Surgeon Data
When it comes to the measurement of Clinical Outcomes to be used as Surgeon Data, there are three different kinds of questionnaires being utilised. Each one is meant to measure different aspects of a patient’s health. Some of these are