Mobile medication management for maximum safety at the patient’s bedside – Mesalvo and Medanets enter partnership
Mesalvo and Medanets have joined forces to revolutionise the daily care work and further advance digitalisation in hospitals. The companies aim to do this with Mesalvo’s intelligent solution for clinical documentation and patient management and Medanets’ app for healthcare professionals. The signing of the partnership agreement at the beginning of 2024 marks the start of a promising collaboration aimed at optimising processes in day-to-day care and sustainably increasing patient safety.
Modern medication management: digital, process-optimised & avoiding loss of information
The healthcare professionals use Mesalvo’s medication and digital curve solution for prescriptions, administrative tasks and orders. Thanks to the Medanets app, the patient and their medication are now identified by scanning barcodes on the patient’s wristband and medication sachet at the bedside. Medication information is fetched immediately from Mesalvo’s solution. Similarly, the medication administration documented with the app is automatically transferred to Mesalvo’s digital curve. In addition, the healthcare professionals can enter measurement data, such as blood pressure readings, directly into the app. These flow into Mesalvo’s digital curve without any loss of information. This eliminates error-prone intermediate steps, such as paper documentation, which still frequently characterises everyday care in many hospitals.
Fast decision support in emergencies – interaction of the digital curve and the app in everyday care
Thanks to barcode scanning with a tablet or smartphone, healthcare professionals can check a patient’s up-to-date medication directly at the patient’s bedside before administering the medicine – quickly, easily and safely. Electronic patient and medication identification ensures that the right medication is given to the right person at the right time, minimising confusion and errors.
Mesalvo’s digital chart gives the professionals a comprehensive overview of patient data, including vital signs, medication, and pain history. In combination with assessments, e.g. the Early Warning Score available within the Medanets app, staff can evaluate the patient’s condition. Depending on the EWS result, the app displays clinical guidelines, such as “The patient’s condition appears to be deteriorating. Please inform the doctor immediately.” Based on the score, a “sepsis bundle” (a series of immediate measures to improve the treatment and management of patients with sepsis) can also be initiated, for example, and the patient can be treated quickly and appropriately to prevent life-threatening complications. This way, the digital and mobile solutions trigger workflows and support documentation and decision-making processes.
Safe pharmacotherapy: closed-loop medication management process with Mesalvo
The interaction of unit dose with AMTS functionalities and the Meona curve medication in combination with the Medanets app revolutionises the medication process in hospitals and ensures even safer medication supply for patients. The prescription in the digital curve solution enables connected unit or multi-dose dispensers to package standard medications individually for each patient and deliver them to the ward. This automated medication management replaces the manual, error-prone process on the ward, increases patient safety by reducing errors through the software’s validation mechanisms and saves the valuable time of the healthcare professionals. The closed-loop medication management process ends with the step at the patient’s bedside – the barcode on the medication sachet is scanned, compared with the patient data directly at the bedside and entered into the patient’s chart, so that disruptions are ruled out.
The partnership between Mesalvo and Medanets promotes effective collaboration and holistic patient care, while at the same time increasing efficiency in day-to-day care and improving working conditions.
Contact:
Linda Weyrauther
Marketing Managerin
Mesalvo Mannheim GmbH
Tel. +49 621 3928-255
linda.weyrauther@mesalvo.com
Juha-Matti Ranta
CEO
Medanets
Tel. +358 44 566 4999
juha-matti.ranta@medanets.com
About Mesalvo GmbH
Mesalvo employs around 450 people who support healthcare providers to meet the challenges of the digital future. Mesalvo develops IT solutions and digitalises and networks all administrative and medical processes along the patient journey. This makes the work of medical and administrative staff easier and more effective, thereby increasing the safety and quality of care for patients. Mesalvo makes a significant contribution to improving quality and patient safety in the healthcare sector. www.mesalvo.com
About Medanets
Medanets revolutionises healthcare with superior mobile solutions. Developed together with healthcare professionals, the app enables safe and efficient nursing workflows, supports decision-making and leaves more time for care. The Medanets app integrates with EHR systems and complements their features. The app is used in more than 80 hospitals and primary health care units in Europe. www.medanets.com
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