The Story behind Medical Associated Software House Ltd (MASH)

MASH was founded in 1988 by Mr Rene W S Chang to fund independent research in Intensive Care Medicine. Mr R Chang, who is one of the pioneers and internationally acknowledged expert in the development of severity of disease scoring systems developed the first ever PC-based software solution for severity scoring in 1986 – then known as the Riyadh ICU Program. Financial support from the Saudi Ministry of Health enabled the Riyadh ICU Program to be widely tested and validated in Europe, Australia, the Americas and Asia in 20 intensive care units (ICUs).

Mr R Chang's focus was using dynamic trend analysis of daily APACHE II (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation Disease Classification System) score corrected for the presence and duration of organ system failures to identify patients whose prognosis is hopeless. This reflects better the dynamic pathophysiological processes affecting ICU patients. By using Mathematical Models, the aim is to reduce mortality in the ICU.

Mr R Chang, our Medical Director, is currently the Director of Transplantation at St George's University Hospital, London as well as a practising renal transplant surgeon. Mr R Chang's research in intensive care medicine and renal transplant has been widely published and can be found in all the major medical journals and medical web-sites.

Tony Chang, Managing Director, joined MASH in 1990 and is responsible for healthcare strategy, building market penetration and strategic partnership and ensuring that current issues facing critical care are considered as MASH's products and services.

Mr Niranjan Wickramaratne, Chief Technical Officer, joined MASH in 2001 and is responsible for all Research and Development and leads a team of software developers and clinical researchers.

The introduction of an "internal market" or Payment by Results (PbR) in the UK National Health Service (NHS) has brought forth new challenges facing critical care medicine in UK. With stringent compliance deadlines by external NHS agencies and Hospital Finance Departments' invoicing requirements, there was little specialisation directed to this problem.

The result was the development of MEDTRACK, based on the Department of Health (DOH) Critical Care Minimum Dataset (CCMDS) as the "currency" for charging individual critical care patients. MEDTRACK was installed at Kings College Hospital, London, in 2006 covering all 9 adult critical care units on a single enterprise platform, using Microsoft technologies.

The MASH Approach is based on:

  • People – Clinicians, former Senior NHS Managers and ICU nurses and expert medical programmers, working in co-operation focused 100% of solving complex critical care problems, be it clinical or PbR.
  • Processes – By using a series of proprietary methodologies, MEDTRACK is run in real-time mode with critical care bedside nurses empowered for the entire Admission/Discharge/Transfer processes.
  • Reporting Tools – Reports Lite and Query Studio allows end-users to rapidly automate month-end reporting at a single click.
MASH is the leader in providing Hospitals with the Technology and Business Solutions needed to manage the complex transition to PbR and Benchmarking Clinical Performance.. Our team is committed to helping our hospital clients make bolder, more profitable decisions with less risk and better outcomes. Contact us today to learn how MEDTRACK resolves and optimises your PbR problems.

MASH Overview

Our company Overview gives you a history of MASH and how we came to be, our accomplishments and vision MEDTRACK-Overview.pdf
 
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