Case Study: University Hospitals Birmingham achieves secure, real-time mobile access to transplant patient data with BlackBerry

Hospitals Trust improves patient care and confidentiality of records for transplant surgeons with BlackBerry solution

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is a major teaching hospital with the largest solid-organ transplant programme in Europe. Its liver transplant team carried anonymised paper waiting lists, which raised data-protection risks if lost, lacked quick-search capability among ~100 records, and suffered from version-control problems because paper copies were only current as of their print date.

UHB’s IT team built a secure BlackBerry application (with partner Airpoint) that stores an encrypted, searchable waiting list on smartphones, receives real-time pushed updates, and supports remote wipe and device password protection. After a short rollout and transition phase the team stopped using paper; the solution sped up donor matching, improved patient care and confidentiality, increased accessibility (including offline viewing), and is being considered for wider use across other services.

University Hospitals Birmingham

Dean Grinham

Programme Delivery Manager