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App Ideas (5)
View allSafeMedic: Nurse Safety Companion
New nurses face high risks of medication errors and needlestick injuries with inadequate support. An app providing real-time medication verification, incident reporting, and post-injury guidance can reduce harm and ensure safety compliance.
“Nurses need a reliable way to ensure the medication amount removed from the dispensing system matches the administered dose to avoid discrepancies.”
“New grad nurse accidentally sticks herself with a needle used on a patient and struggles with the lack of immediate guidance and a streamlined reporting and testing process.”
RehabGuard
Empower physical therapists to ensure patients follow post-operative protocols safely at home, reducing complications like scar tissue and re-injury. Purpose-built for patient safety management in health, wellness, and beauty.
“New grad physical therapist needs a data-driven method to determine the safe and effective amount of force to apply during passive range of motion (PROM) for post-op TKA and frozen shoulder patients.”
“Patients refuse to try exercise and demand manual therapy, making it difficult to treat root causes.”
DenialDeflect for Therapy
An AI-powered app that predicts insurance denial risks for therapy visits and automates appeals with tailored medical justification, reducing denials and saving clinicians hours of paperwork.
“Insurance denies medically necessary visits and equipment for pediatric patients, forcing clinicians to waste time on appeals and settle for inadequate care.”
“Insurance company denied coverage for a patient's 7th therapy visit despite ongoing functional limitation (cannot climb stairs), and the appeals process is complex and often overturned decisions are re-issued.”
Patient Safety Radar
An app that helps nurses synthesize patient data and prioritize care in real-time to prevent missed deterioration. It addresses gaps in EHR systems by providing actionable insights rather than just documentation.
“A nurse struggles to prioritize care for 34 patients with multiple diagnoses and unpredictable acute issues due to inadequate medical history documentation and unclear prioritization systems in a skilled nursing facility.”
“Nurses struggle to ensure timely vital sign checks for post-op patients due to chaotic shift transitions, unclear documentation, and high patient loads, risking patient safety and legal liability.”
TubeGuard Reposition
Nurses lack a safe, evidence-based way to manage feeding tubes and pumps when repositioning patients in bed. Current protocols are unproven and create confusion, risking tube dislodgement or pump interference.
“Nurses lack a safe way to reposition patients in bed without risking accidental dislodgement of the feeding tube or pump interference.”
“Pausing a feeding pump for a few seconds while repositioning a patient is a pointless ritual that does not meaningfully prevent aspiration, yet is mandated by protocol.”
Individual Problems
SwallowSafe Pro
Nurses need a reliable way to ensure residents swallow their medications instead of losing them due to improper administration.
NurseSafe Sentinel
A new grad nurse made a medication error and a diet reporting error due to being overwhelmed with high patient load, and now faces a Board of Nursing investigation with no support, retraining, or clear communication.
OrderGuard Care
New LPN is unsure if unsafe practices by RNs (acting without orders) in long-term care are normal or a safety risk, especially after a resident developed aspiration pneumonia following a non-ordered bolus feed.
WanderGuard Alert
In long-term care, dementia residents wander, enter other rooms, and require constant redirection, but short staffing and lack of secure units or sitters make it impossible to provide safe care.
VialSafe Multi-Fill
Workers need to load multiple syringes from a single medication vial but lack a sterile, efficient method, risking contamination when reusing needles or exposure to the vial.
SafeSyringe Prep
Medical lab technician is uncomfortable with pre-loading multiple syringes with one medication for later use due to potential safety and liability risks.
HearClear ED
A nurse with hearing loss is unsure if the chaotic, high-noise environment of the Emergency Department is a feasible career move given their hearing impairment, and seeks input on sound levels and hearing challenges.
PostOp GutGuard
Current post-op discharge instructions for constipation prevention are insufficient, leading to severe complications like fecal impaction and septic shock even in outpatient surgeries.
GownGlove Guide
Difficulty maintaining effective hand hygiene during the 5 moments when wearing isolation gowns with thumb loops.
TriageFlow ER Optimizer
A hospital ER is being redesigned by a consultant with changes that staff consider unsafe, including reduction of triage, fewer staff, and reassigning the waiting room to hold patients pending results.
HealthScreen Daily
Teachers struggle with parents sending sick children to school, forcing unwelcome responsibility to police health and risk administrative conflict.
ColonizationCare Protocol
Hospitals lack a clear protocol for managing C. diff colonization (PCR positive, toxin negative), leading to unnecessary isolation and confusion over testing.
ProcedureFlow
A nurse is distressed by a bedside incision and drainage procedure performed without adequate pain management, clear communication, or proper specimen labeling.
HealGuard Waterproof Shield
Healthcare workers with hand injuries cannot keep bandages on due to frequent hand washing, impeding healing.
VitalCheck Integrity
A medical assistant falsifies blood pressure readings, compromising patient safety, and management ignores repeated reports.
CorSafe Alert
Nurses are unaware of and untrained on the risk of vial coring when drawing up medications with blunt needles, potentially leading to patient harm from glass fragments.
CareGuard ALF Oversight
Assisted living facilities that don't accept Medicare/Medicaid lack oversight, leading to unsafe staffing and patient care.
MedSchedule Clarifier
Ambiguous medication timing orders (e.g., BID interpreted as 0900/1700 vs Q12H 0900/2100) cause dangerous scheduling errors and staff conflict.
VitalSign Guard
Nurses struggle to ensure timely vital sign checks for post-op patients due to chaotic shift transitions, unclear documentation, and high patient loads, risking patient safety and legal liability.
GentleCare Bath
CNA needs a way to safely and legally bathe a dementia patient who refuses showers without physical restraint or causing distress.
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