eMHA by Thalamos
Ensuring accurate data is recorded by health and care professionals, eMHA by Thalamos is available on demand across the Mental Health pathway at Ward, Hospital, Trust, ICS and System level.
At its core, eMHA by Thalamos provides a complete digital Mental Health Act suite, including all statutory admission, treatment and discharge forms for all organisations involved in care.
Find out how one mental health team’s use of eMHA by Thalamos saw it win an HSJ Patient Safety Award.
Thalamos reduces inefficiencies, improves patient care, and supports better health outcomes.
Patient experience
The fundamental objective of MHA Digitisation is to improve patient outcomes, speed up recovery, and deliver a better patient experience whilst in care. By treating patients in the shortest time possible they can be discharged from hospital much quicker.
Joined up care
Thalamos allows multiple agencies and care providers (Hospitals, Police, Social Care, CQC) to seamlessly communicate, interoperate, and fulfil statutory roles within the Mental Health Act whilst providing mental health crisis care.
Data quality
By digitising the existing paper-based system and care pathway, Thalamos has reduced typical clerical errors on MHA forms by 90% – significantly speeding up treatment times.
Time saving
Time to treatment has reduced from upwards of 14 days to less than 24 hours so patients receive the care they need without delay. Time savings are redeployed into wider patient care focusing extra resources on reducing waiting lists and maximising existing budgets.
Data insights
By improving inter agency communication, we isolate both high and operational level data insights, creating visibility across key performance metrics that were previously unachievable.
Staff experience
By removing administrative burden, we allow staff across the mental health act pathways and different organisations to focus on patient care and remove the unnecessary time spent on administrative tasks.
Our solutions
Creating innovative and intuitive software products which reduce the administrative burden of the Mental Health Act and make it swifter, simpler, and safer.
We believe that there should be no distinction or disparity between emergency physical and mental health care as exists currently.
Patient benefit
Thalamos has helped reduce access to treatment times from 7 days to 15 hours by connecting care professionals more effectively.
7 days
15 hrs
Clinical benefit
Patients can be discharged 1-3 days sooner by trusts using Thalamos, with estimated annual saving costs of between £360,00 and £1.08m.
1-3 days
Compliance benefit
At one site using paper, there was an estimated 25% error rate. This error rate has been dramatically reduced to 1.6% since using Thalamos.
25%
1.6%
How we're helping
When a close friend of Arden’s was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, there was disbelief that an emergency care pathway was managed by moving around paper forms.
Disbelief turned to shock when it became apparent that access to treatment would be delayed whilst they waited for the set of forms to be circulated manually and finally signed off.
Thinking there must be a quicker and more efficient way of accessing treatment during a mental health crisis, Arden and his cousin Ross founded Thalamos to digitise the entire care pathway.
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Existing customers
If you are looking for support while using Thalamos, please email support@thalamos.co.uk or call 0203 886 0385.
