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Nurses lack reliable, automated safety checks during medication administration, leading to errors from manual verification and miscommunication. This opportunity addresses the need for real-time validation, change alerts, and streamlined verbal order reconciliation.
“A nurse on a short-staffed step-down unit is blamed for complications with feeding tube placements due to lack of time and support, and fears reprimand despite following protocol.”
“A nurse administering vaccines cannot accurately track and document batch numbers during reconstitution and administration when multiple staff are involved, leading to potential documentation errors and patient safety concerns.”
SafePath: Emergency Escalation
An app that helps nurses document and escalate critical patient deterioration events, bypassing harmful hierarchical delays, while providing rapid access to emergency equipment and protocols. It ensures clinical judgment is prioritized and unsafe policies are transparently reported.
“Nurses in a long-term care facility are pressured by management and corporate policy to delay sending critically declining patients to the hospital, despite obvious medical need and family requests, causing risk of harm.”
“Physical injury and chronic pain from manually lifting and repositioning morbidly obese patients in bed, despite using proper body mechanics.”
SafeMedic: 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.
“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.”
“New nurse lacks patient identification and medication safety protocols in nursing home, risking medication errors.”
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.
“Healthcare workers at a facility are confused about a policy change that stopped requiring pausing feeding pumps when repositioning patients in bed, as it contradicts prior training.”
“Pausing a feeding pump when repositioning a patient in bed is a ritualistic, unsupported practice that wastes nursing time.”
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.
“Patients post-knee surgery are terrified of movement and fail to follow prescribed rehab protocols due to pain and lack of guidance.”
“A physical therapist is unable to effectively treat a pediatric patient with complex, undiagnosed neurological symptoms because specialists are bouncing the patient between departments without coordination or clear diagnosis.”
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.
“Charge nurses are struggling with high patient ratios that negatively impact patient satisfaction scores, but management won't acknowledge the connection between staffing levels and quality of care.”
“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.”
Individual Problems
SafeLift PT
Physical therapists need to safely perform standing evaluations for max-assist patients without assistance, risking injury and falls.
PreScan Polish Remover
Nurses lack the tools and training to remove nail polish that interferes with MRI procedures, an unplanned task outside their scope.
CarbSafe: Menu Accuracy Assurance
Carb counting system inaccuracies due to meal tray substitutions being incorrectly logged as add-ons, risking insulin miscalculation for patients.
EvidencEdge Advocate
Occupational therapist needs research evidence to advocate for placing dementia and elderly swing bed patients in nursing homes instead of hospital settings to reduce delirium risk, but lacks data to persuade administrators.
StickTrack Lite
Needlestick injuries, especially from clean/unused needles, are underreported because reporting is seen as unnecessary or too burdensome.
ChemoShield Monitor
An oncology infusion nurse in her late 20s is concerned about fertility risks from occupational exposure to chemotherapy drugs, despite using PPE, and fears the lack of pregnancy-specific safety protocols.
SpineSafe Roll
Nurses on a surgical unit fail to perform proper log roll and spinal precautions for a C1 fracture patient, ignoring the ED nurse's coordination and safe technique, risking patient safety.
CareLink Inmate Health
Inmate mother with complex ostomy and cancer care needs lacks hygiene and medical continuity in jail, risking infection and inadequate ostomy bag management.
MedLoad Optimizer
Nurses in skilled nursing facilities are assigned excessive numbers of patients (up to 40) for medication passes, creating risk of errors and unsafe working conditions.
SafetyReport Shield
Nurses in a long-term care facility are pressured by management and corporate policy to delay sending critically declining patients to the hospital, despite obvious medical need and family requests, causing risk of harm.
MedTray Solo
Nurses lack a clean, portable surface to safely carry individual patient medications and supplies, forcing them to either bring the entire medication cart into rooms or improvise with pockets and inappropriate surfaces.
FlowGuard IV Assistant
Nurses risk medication administration errors like forgetting to unclamp secondary IV lines, leading to patients receiving unintended fluids.
VetLink Transfer
Urgent care vet lacks staffing, resources, and overnight monitoring to stabilize critical patients, but ERs refuse transfers and blame them for referring.
IceTrack Pro
Nurses struggle to accurately track and document ice chip intake for NPO patients on strict I&O, risking patient safety and regulatory issues.
VitalFlow ICU
ICU nurses lack a reliable system to enforce hourly EVD monitoring and prevent data falsification when staffing shortages cause busy workloads.
TeleTrack Safety
Med-surg nurse caring for ER boarders cannot enforce telemetry policy due to facility constraints and resistance from management and monitoring staff.
LeadSense Telemetry Filter
Night-shift nurse on a step-down unit is forced to wake patients hourly to reattach leads that keep falling off, even when the rhythm remains clearly visible.
SafeDischarge Protocol
Orthopedic surgeons in private practice threaten to pull outpatient business from hospital surgery centers when patients with comorbidities are not cleared for same-day discharge after total joint replacement, despite medical unsuitability.
VitalGuard: Real-Time Drug Reaction Monitor
A nurse has developed a fear of administering IV antibiotics after two patients experienced anaphylaxis in non-monitored beds, creating a need for better patient safety monitoring.
AudiAuscult
A healthcare worker who is hard of hearing and uses hearing aids/cochlear implants cannot find a stethoscope that works with their assistive devices.
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