Can data save lives? A success story

Each minute counts in emergency healthcare, whether it is to save a life or to ensure the best possible quality of life after treatment. Optimizing the process from emergency calls to medical (angioplasty) procedures saves valuable minutes. Zone of Safety Holland, North accomplished this in collaboration with several hospitals in the area by utilizing the Call to Balloon dashboard.

Martin Smeekes, the director of the safety region, and his team of experts wanted to improve the critical process of Call to Balloon. Ambulance response times in this region of the Netherlands could not be improved further than the current 95% accuracy.

Martin wanted to improve the entire process, from the initial emergency call to the actual treatment (angioplasty). Everyone understood that by working together, they could achieve improvements in the time between the emergency call and the treatment.

This is how we began and worked on the Call to Balloon solution...