b'26 Partner News Spring 2022EnterpriseProject management SA Groups agile project manager was responsible for coordinating the development and testing activities for all telemedicine capabilities, as well as implementing governance, control and processes to manage reporting, communication and change. SAFe 5 methodology was used to track progress to ensure milestones were achieved within the agreed timeline. This enabled the project to achieve an initial operating capability (IOC) for all three systems well within the allocated budget and challenging timelines.Test and trials management Master test and trials plans for each Enabling critical medicalof the capabilities were created by the test and trials manager by developing a comprehensive set of test cases that clearly demonstrated how each system met support servicesessential user stories. These plans were key to delivering the assurance needed to declare each system Consultancy firm SA Group showcases a current projectready for deployment. to provide medical support for military medics in the field. At appropriate stages in the delivery, system demos were used to illustrate to users that the proposed solutions met their needs.Telemedicine enables military medicalSA Group provided a number of roles toImproved medical communication professionals to deliver a higher qualitysupport Navy, Army and Air Force cliniciansThis project is ongoing and the quality of of care to personnel in remote locationsand civil servant project staff with the rapidcare the clinicians are offering patients has throughout the world.delivery of the telemedicine capability toimproved significantly. front-line users.The SA Group has recently been involved inThe team has enabled deployed clinicians a project to provide a suite of services withBusiness analysis to transmit vital patient data in real time, upgraded connectivity that enables overThis included a business analyst withproviding the information that specialists in 1,500 deployed military medical personnelextensive knowledge of military informationthe UK need to guide patient treatment. The to exchange advice, data and images withsystems, cost modelling and militarydata can be added to the patients medical UK-based specialists to receive the bestprocurements. The analyst captured userrecord to assist with future treatment. possible medical advice. requirements for all capabilities through extensive workshops across joint and single- A secure medical messaging application Services included a medical messagingservice medical organisations.making use of a public-hosted AWS cloud application allowing instant messagingsolution and delivering a medically tailored between deployed clinicians and consultants,Existing clinical processes were modelledWhatsApp-type messaging system for 2,000 a remote monitoring service to enable theto identify opportunities for technologicalusers has also been implemented. real-time streaming of patient vital signimprovements and to develop coherent and data and a clinical support tool to enabledetailed statements of requirement andSince the introduction of this medical deployed surgeons to receive consultant- business cases that enabled the successfulmessaging application, the time taken for level advice via a live video feed.procurement of all three capabilities.deployed clinicians to receive specialist advice has reduced from a matter of days to An agile project team was required toBy having a consistent and detailed set ofhours and in some cases, even minutes.manage the delivery of these services. Teamguidelines, any proposed changes at the members had to be familiar with medicalsystem requirements level were mappedTo find out more about the range of information system concepts and the MoDand either accepted or rejected against userservices SA Group provide, please procurement system in order to deliver therequirements to ensure delivery of compliantvisit www.sa-group.com or telephone services to a demanding timeline.solutions and manage change. +44(0)1249 280111.'