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View allNurseCompanion: Real-time Clinical Decision Support
New graduate nurses often feel overwhelmed, anxious, and unprepared, particularly in high-stakes situations like deciding when to escalate to a physician, managing difficult patient interactions, or handling behavioral crises. There is a lack of accessible, real-time, decision-support tools tailored to their needs that provide psychological reassurance and structured guidance.
“Non-psych nurses lack training and tools for managing complex milieu crises on behavioral health wards, including prolonged de-escalation and post-crisis stabilization.”
“A new nurse is anxious about shift preparation due to fear of the unknown and potential medical errors.”
TheraFlow Supervisor
An opportunity to create a tool that helps physical therapy clinical instructors manage high concurrent patient loads while integrating student supervision, reducing burnout and unpaid overtime. This addresses the gap where current software focuses on scheduling/billing but not real-time workload balancing in busy rehab settings.
“A physical therapist is concerned that an outpatient clinic is re-admitting recently discharged patients with new scripts, which they view as overutilization without a documented decline or new incident.”
“A physical therapist in a rehab mill struggles to balance high concurrent patient loads and group sessions while trying to provide quality clinical instruction to a student, resulting in exhaustion and unpaid overtime.”
DocuPT: Rapid PT Evaluations
An app that streamlines physical therapy evaluation documentation using AI and voice-to-text, reducing charting time by 50%. It syncs with EMR systems to help PTs complete notes during work hours, improving work-life balance.
“New grad home health therapist struggles to fill 4-unit visit when patient improves quickly, unsure how to justify longer session or use remaining time.”
“Inconsistent and inaccurate patient assessment documentation from previous clinic leads to incorrect baseline and treatment plan.”
ChartFlow Nurse
New nurses struggle with inefficient, time-locked charting in EHRs, causing workflow disruption and reduced patient care time. There is a need for a mobile tool that guides real-time documentation and captures tasks on-the-go.
“New graduate nurse struggles with inefficient charting that delays completion of assessments, taking away from patient care and personal time.”
“New nurses in fast-paced surgical oncology step-down units struggle to remember and document all completed and pending tasks due to constant interruptions and charting system issues.”
ChartFlow AI
Streamline chaotic emergency department charting by automating redundant data entry and providing smart, real-time suggestions. The app reduces nurse burnout and frees time for patient care.
“Nurses struggle to document medication administration on time due to overwhelming multitasking and constant interruptions in a fast-paced clinical environment.”
“Night-shift healthcare providers lack nursing support and rarely receive responses from doctors for patient education requests.”
Individual Problems
PBD Conversion Mentor Hub
Medical student lacks practical knowledge about provider-based department (PBD) conversions and seeks real-world insights into hidden pitfalls that may affect qualification.
ShiftReady Nurse
A new nurse is anxious about shift preparation due to fear of the unknown and potential medical errors.
ProviderVerify
A nurse accidentally communicated with and followed orders from the wrong physician because the correct provider was not clearly identified in the assignment system.
NurseSense AI
Nurses feel that algorithms controlling staffing, acuity, and alerts override their clinical judgment and negatively impact patient care and job satisfaction.
StreamCatch
Healthcare workers struggle to collect midstream urine samples from patients with limited mobility or who cannot self-collect, leading to messy and inefficient collection attempts.
SepsisGuard ER Decision Support
An ER failed to fully evaluate and treat a patient with signs concerning for sepsis after recent neck surgery, discharging her prematurely without clear communication or follow-up.
ClinicalTrack Pro
A new clinical instructor lacks a systematic way to track nursing students' daily progress and competencies in a low-acuity pediatric ward.
MedGuardian
A nurse realizes she may have incorrectly crushed extended-release medications due to an outdated EMAR and unclear medication administration instructions, potentially harming patients.
NeuroNurse Assist
An AuDHD nurse in a small surgical clinic struggles with the memory, task-switching, and pressure demands of scrub and pre-op roles, and fears burnout without accommodations or strategies.
RehabSteward
A physical therapist is concerned that an outpatient clinic is re-admitting recently discharged patients with new scripts, which they view as overutilization without a documented decline or new incident.
CI Balance Scheduler
A physical therapist in a rehab mill struggles to balance high concurrent patient loads and group sessions while trying to provide quality clinical instruction to a student, resulting in exhaustion and unpaid overtime.
NurseEscalate Clinical Decision Support
A new graduate nurse on a med-surg/tele step-down unit lacks clinical judgment to know when a patient's condition warrants contacting the physician, fearing appearing incompetent or causing unnecessary interruptions.
AcuityAdjust
Nurse managing multiple patients on a med-surg floor finds it difficult to safely manage time and attention when one patient requires intensive insulin drip monitoring (Q1 glucose checks, IV fluids, potassium replacement) while also caring for other patients.
CareChange Hub
A nursing student faces resistance from a colleague when trying to change a resident's stoma care system to reduce skin breakdown caused by daily one-piece appliance changes.
ClinicMate Free EMR
Free clinic needs a cost-effective electronic medical records system and prescription handling process for uninsured patients.
VetClinic Connect
Vet student hates corporate practice environment with high patient volume, wants hands-on surgical experience but is stuck in VA role, feeling bored and unfulfilled.
DermaSanitize Pro
A nurse with psoriasis on her hands needs an alcohol-free hand sanitizer alternative that is permitted by hospital policy, as the Purell sanitizer exacerbates her open fissures.
VertigoPro: Canal-Specific BPPV Training
Vestibular therapists are undertrained in diagnosing and treating horizontal canal BPPV, leading to misdiagnosis and ineffective treatment.
SedationTriage Pro
IR nurses and radiology doctors lack a standardized algorithm or decision support tool to determine whether critically ill patients (e.g., requiring fluid resuscitation, blood, or pressors) are stable enough for procedural sedation, and to guide pediatric dosing for sedation drugs.
NeuroPain Decoder
Clinician lacks clarity on whether voluntary muscle contraction works through similar neurophysiological mechanisms as manual therapy or dry needling for pain relief, hindering clinical reasoning.
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