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The Medanets mobile solutions have been developed based on customer needs. Our key focus areas are patient safety, workflow efficiency, cost reduction and care provider experience. Every feature and characteristic of the app is designed to make healthcare work easier by reducing the burden of documentation and duplication, and delivering efficient decision making.
The app releases time to care. It helps healthcare professionals save lives.
With Medanets, even network shortages do not compromise care: the app works offline. The content, such as terminology and instructions are also customisable.
Supporting a smooth care workflow
Overall picture
At the beginning of my shift, I check the overall situation of the patients on the ward on the app. I also filter the list to see my patients’ statuses. I can quickly see whose condition is stable, and who needs more clinical attention. To be on top of my care activities during the shift, I check them on the mobile too – it seems patient in room number 1 needs his medication soon. It’s such a relief not having to memorise everything!
Patient observations
I’m always on the move but luckily so is the data about my patients. For example, I can easily see what the latest vital signs of the patient were and if the patient has any allergies. I can record new observation values straight to the EHR. My colleagues can see them right away. No more notes in my pockets, no more duplicated or delayed entries.
Continuous assessment
How are my patients really doing? I complete nursing assessments, such as Braden Risk Assessment and Morse Falls Risk Assessment by the bedside on the app to identify potential risks simmering beneath the surface. I notice that the patient has a high Early Warning Score, although they appear to be doing well. The app prompts me to escalate this concern and complete further assessments like sepsis screening. I can complete both actions straight away from the app.
The sepsis screening result seems alarming, too. Thankfully this information was directly shared with my colleagues and added to their worklist. Help is on the way as we can escalate patient care immediately!
Medication
It’s time for medication administrations. I always have up-to-date information and instructions about a patient’s medication at my fingertips. I can also document a patient’s medication administration on the mobile app quickly and safely. These are vital parts of patient care on the ward! Through positive patient and medication identification, I ensure the medication is right at the time of administration.
Communication
In my work, there are many situations where it is important to get quick confirmation or have information shared with the right people. I don’t want to end up calling around or finding the right doctor. Therefore, I use instant messaging to connect with my colleagues. Information between us is relayed in real time and as a bonus I can link clinical content to the chat. A screenshot of the most recent values in a graph format, for example.
Handover
My shift is at the end. A lot happened during the day. Fortunately, the EHR and mobile app communicate to each other, and relevant patient information is shared in real time. I also wrote short care notes on mobile throughout the shift, so there’s no need for handwritten post-it notes with patient data to be left in my pocket. The care activities I couldn’t complete during my shift will be shown to the nurses taking over the care after my shift ends. I can go home knowing that patients are well looked after.
Assessing the patient's situation
A new patient has been admitted to the ED, and I start to assess her situation. While I document the patient’s pain and enter values into the mobile app to calculate EWS, Glasgow coma scale and complete other nursing assessments at the point of care, I get evidence-based clinical guidelines. I also get prompts to complete further assessments such as sepsis screening and can escalate patient care immediately after the documentation. This has saved lives!
Information access
As more information is entered to the app, it starts to create trend views and graphs that make it easy for all professionals to see how the patient’s situation is developing.
The mobile app also provides us easy access to patient demographics and previously documented risk information, such as allergies.
In the fast-paced Emergency Department, the app saves me time as I’m able to enter new data directly into the patient record with minimal effort.
Consultation
With the mobile app, I can quickly and easily consult a clinician from outside the ED. Medanets Messaging connects me and my colleagues in a secure and robust manner so that information is relayed between us in almost real time.
Handover
There will be no gaps in the care when the patient is admitted to the hospital as an inpatient. Ward nurses can continue from where me and my ED colleagues handed over the care. All patient data we recorded is already available for decision making at the ward and handing over the patient becomes seamless. This enables better information access, improves patient safety and outcomes, and accelerates responses if the patient’s condition deteriorates.
Safety Checks
Verify, tick off and save. Before and during the surgery, I use mobile safety checklists to accurately complete safety checks. These checklists can be about room and equipment set up but, more importantly, about planned patient care. I can start filling a checklist and my colleague can finish it. All checklists that are filled in and saved on the mobile app are transferred directly to the EHR, even when the list is not yet complete.
Start of shift in home care
When my shift starts, I first check Medanets Dashboard and Care activities to see which tasks have been assigned to each customer during the shift. The list includes wound care for Sylvia Smith.
Basic home care visit
I come to Sylvia Smith’s home for a routine visit at noon. I get the customer data from Medanets. I take her blood pressure and enter the reading in Medanets. I check the patient’s daily medication from Medanets and confirm that she has the right pills in her pill organiser.
The Medanets Care activities list contains a wound care order. While changing her bandages, I take a photo of the wound using the app. The photo is securely saved to the Electronic Health Record, where the doctor can see it to check how the wound is healing.
According to our organisation’s guidelines, home care patients’ risk of falling is assessed at least every six months. I fill in the Falls Risk Assessment form in Medanets, and the app automatically calculates the risk indicator score. This customer’s risk of falling has not increased. The completion of this assessment is recorded in the EHR along with all other data I’ve entered.
Basic home care visit, change in the customer’s condition
I arrive to my customer’s home for my daily morning visit. I immediately notice that there is something wrong with the customer. They tell me that they are not feeling well.
Assessment and consultation
My organisation has given clear instructions for such situations, so I immediately know what to do. I start to examine the patient using the ABCDE method. I get the customer data from Medanets. I start taking the measurements needed for NEWS score calculation and document each value in Medanets. The app calculates an EWS score of 5 and prompts me to inform other nurses and consult a doctor about further measures. I call a doctor for consultation according to the SBAR model.
Further care
The doctor concludes that the patient must be taken to a hospital for further care. I call prehospital care and the patient gets to the hospital quickly.