Infix wins contract with NHS Scotland to optimize operating rooms

A Scottish technology company has won a contract from NHS Scotland to optimize operating room efficiency following a competitive tender process.

Infix’s cloud-based software with machine learning capabilities is set to be rolled out to all Scottish NHS health boards over the next 12 months.

The contract award follows the success of pilots working on three NHS health boards, which enabled thousands of additional surgeries to be performed, during which operating theater efficiency increased by up to a quarter.

Infix will now support each health board to increase productivity, eliminate paper processes and reduce the overall administrative burden of creating and approving theater listings, powered by technology that standardizes scheduling workflows and leverages automation to optimize theater utilization.

Infix was founded by consultant anesthetist Dr Matthew Freer in 2019 and has since developed two main software products – Infix: Schedule, which improves surgical operating room efficiency and solves patient waiting list backlogs – and virtual pre-operative software, enabling initial assessment . Infix: Preop portal, which aims to optimize the patient path.

Freer said: “While we have demonstrated how our best-in-class technology can have a transformative impact on theater performance, including through a bidding process that pitted Infix against other established technology groups, what is most pleasing about today’s announcement is the knowledge that it will now able to ease the pressure on health boards and improve the lives of so many patients across Scotland.”

Jonathan Cameron, director of digital health and care at the Scottish Government, said: “Infix is ​​a clinician-led technology company, backed by over five years of NHS uptime data, with a mission to optimize operational procedures and patient throughput. is a great example of how we can develop world-class healthcare technology from a base in Scotland.”

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