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He also noted the significance of wearable technology in outpatients for monitoring and improving remote healthcare . The global wearables market is expected to record a value of US $ 116.88bn in 2025 , rising at a CAGR of 17.12 %, for the time period of 2021-2025 .

“ There ' s amazing work that goes on in heart failure in our hospital , which I would never have dreamt we would have been able to do that sort of level of monitoring at home . We ' re already there in certain areas , said Pinto .

Looking to the future , he said : “ What we need to do is make that available to virtually everybody who attends the hospital as an outpatient .”

To continue to improve inpatient services , Pinto explained it is imperative the Trust ’ s inpatient record continues to become more digitised , he explained : “ We ' ve been very successful in digitising our inpatient record , but not to an extent that would allow us to gain some of the real advantages from it .”

“ How does that benefit the patient ? it will improve efficiency , so that right at the start of a patient ' s inpatient journey , we have a much better handle on their trajectory in the hospital and how long they ' re likely to be in for . Plus , we know what treatment they might need and we can plan our services in a much more proactive way , which is much better than how we used to collect data before ,” he concluded .

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