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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
InfestAlert
Nursing home staff face an unaddressed bedbug infestation despite repeated reports to management and state regulators.
VesselID Coach
A healthcare worker needs a reliable, systematic method to differentiate veins from arteries under ultrasound during peripheral vascular cannulation.
AlarmDistinct Pro
Hospital changed bath room alarms to sound nearly identical to rapid response alarms, causing false alerts and staff distress.
SafeChart Dyslexia Assist
New grad nurse with dyslexia worries that number switching, spelling difficulties, and reliance on verbal orders in the ER will lead to charting errors and patient safety risks.
SafeCount Pro
Pharmacy technicians are stressed and anxious when manually counting medications that cannot be machine-counted, fearing cross-contamination that could harm patients.
NeoO2 Guide
NICU nurses are unclear about whether oxygen from the wall is 100% FiO2 and whether transitioning chronic lung patients from high-flow nasal cannula to low-flow off the wall is appropriate.
LineGuard IV
Nurses lack a safe, efficient method to reuse IV secondary lines between incompatible medications without risking contamination.
IV LineSafe Flush
Nurses need a reliable way to prevent medication incompatibility when using the same IV line for multiple drugs, but current practice of discarding dedicated secondary tubing is wasteful and costly.
CliniHear Pro
A nursing student with hearing aids fears that her hearing loss will cause errors in clinicals and wonders if she can succeed in the profession.
CleanEntry Pro
Healthcare workers lack a simple, consistent entry routine to prevent germ contamination after shifts.
SafeWard Pro
Psychiatric hospital staff face severe safety risks due to absence of security personnel, understaffing, and administrative negligence in managing violent patient incidents.
SitterDoc Pro
Psychiatry worker lacks staff to provide 1:1 patient monitoring and needs documentation of patient status despite no dedicated sitter.
TransferGuide Pro
A COTA needs clear, evidence-based guidance on how to train a patient with a right above-knee amputation to safely transfer from wheelchair to toilet, including hand placement and technique.
SafeScan Nurse
New nurse lacks patient identification and medication safety protocols in nursing home, risking medication errors.
EvidenceBase Policy Sync
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.
FeedSafe Protocol
Pausing a feeding pump when repositioning a patient in bed is a ritualistic, unsupported practice that wastes nursing time.
SafeLine Reposition
Nurses lack a safe way to reposition patients in bed without risking accidental dislodgement of the feeding tube or pump interference.
AspirationGuard
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.
NurseSupervisor Pro
RN supervisors at rehab or nursing facilities are responsible for 40-50 patients with high liability and insufficient support, while handling admissions and assessments alongside LPNs who provide direct care.
ForceGuide PROM
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.
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