Your Challenge and Our Solution What problem will our Patient Safety App solve?

Here are some of the reasons why current methods to provide instructions do not work well.

Most patient are currently given confusing instructions and are ill-prepared

Typically, patients are given instructions before procedures by their medical professionals in the form of general verbal and/or printed instructions. These instructions are commonly broad and non-specific to each individual patient such as this (click here ->) example.

This is particularly true when it comes to instructions related to medications, natural remedies, vitamins and supplements. 

Experience has shown that too many patients come to operating rooms, endoscopy suites or medical imaging suites poorly prepared, having taken or stopped their medications improperly. We believe that this has likely been your experience. Our application will help solve this problem.

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Specific medications need specific instructions

Very frequently patients present on the day of their procedure either

  • Not having stopped certain medications when they should have OR

  • Having continued taking others medications up to and including on the morning of their procedures when they should have stopped them prior to that day.

For examples, certain types of medications may increase bleeding such as anti-coagulants and anti-platelet agents. These medications need to be stopped before procedures, otherwise they may cause significant complications such as difficult to control bleeding and increase the need for blood transfusions.

On the other hand, medications for controlling blood pressure and heart rate often should be taken on the day of these procedures as to decrease negative intra and post-operative adverse cardiac events including myocardial infarction.

Other medications such as insulin need to be adjusted according to the patient's individual needs. If the management of these medications prior is not properly done, this may lead to increased risks of adverse effects associated to either low or elevated blood glucose.

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The information may be difficult to read

This image illustrates how typical instructions can be very confusing as they are often long and written with small size fonts. These instructions are often hard to read by people that may have limited reading skills and/or knowledge of medical terms.

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Pertinent instructions are often obscured by excessive amounts of irrelevant instructions

Most to the time, generic handouts such as this one contain irrelevant information that may not be applicable to individual patients, only adding to their possible confusion. For example comments are often included about diabetic medications or anti-inflammatory when not every patient takes these kind of medications. In such situation, any comments about these medications is unnecessary and only confusing to these patients.

 

Many patients may end up not even taking the time to read through these types of instructions carefully as they perceive them to be too complicated in the first place.

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Medications have multiple and confusing names

Most medications have multiple names, including generic and brand names. Accordingly, many patients are often unable to recognize the names that are equivalent to the ones they are taking. As an example, Eliquis ® (brand name) and its generic version named Apixaban ® may not be properly recognized as being the same and appropriately stopped by patients before their procedure, possibly leading to the cancellation of their procedure.

There are too many medications for physicians to list in a short, concise and useful document

There are too many medications for health care providers to list them all in a simple manner. This is especially true when instructions are printed in advance to be given to every patients in the same format. In other words, we believe that it is impossible to create a pre-printed set of instructions that will cover all possible medications without making such document very confusing and difficult to understand.

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Why change what you are doing? Here are some of the reasons why our Patient Safety App will help you

Better preparation leads to better outcome

The success of medical procedures, such as surgeries, endoscopic and imaging investigations not only rely on the skills of their medical professionals but also on how well each patient is prepared for such procedures.

 If patients undergo these procedures while not being optimally prepared, their outcomes may be suboptimal. In certain situations, such procedures may need to be cancelled and postponed, causing significant physical and mental stresses to these patients, cause delays in diagnoses and treatments, result in time management inefficiencies and waisted time as well as increase in health care costs.

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You will be able to give clear, consistent, up-to-date instructions to your patients

Our application's database will be updated frequently as to help users provide the best instructions possible based on the most recent clinical standards and guidelines.

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You will save time and will be able to focus on your patients and their medical procedures

Medical professionals such as surgeons and endoscopists are often too busy to prepare and regularly update the instructions they give patients before their procedures.

This task will be easily done with our application, saving you time so you may focus on all the other tasks needed for the preparation of your patients for their medical procedures.

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We believe that our web based application will help you better prepare patients for their procedures

Our simple application and its six easy steps (please go to our Welcome Page for pictures) will be able help you generate pre-operational instructions (see example below) that will be

  • Simple and easy to understand

  • Specific to individual patients and

  • Specific for each of their individual medication

This in various settings such as:

  • Hospitals

  • Pre-operative clinics

  • Physician’s offices

  • Nurse practitioner’s offices

  • And any other environments

Additionally, health care providers will have the ability to attach additional instructions such as, for example:

  • fasting instructions (see example below)

  • surgeons specific instructions

  • surgery and procedure specific instructions and

  • instructions related to sleep apnea and CPAP/BiPAP devices

The final instructions can either be:

  • Printed

  • Sent via e-mail

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