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SafePath: Emergency Escalation

15 reports

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 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.

Nurses need a reliable, low-effort way to verify correct IV line setups and infusion pump programming at shift handoff to prevent medication errors without relying solely on manual tracing.

44medium
HealthcarePatient Safety Management
4HighStable
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SafeMedic: Nurse Safety Companion

5 reports

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.

Nurses need a reliable way to ensure the medication amount removed from the dispensing system matches the administered dose to avoid discrepancies.

44high
Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety Management
5CriticalStable
40

TubeGuard Reposition

4 reports

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.

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.

32low
Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety Management
3MediumStable
53

RehabGuard

12 reports

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 post-knee surgery are terrified of movement and fail to follow prescribed rehab protocols due to pain and lack of guidance.

44medium
Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety Management
4HighStable
47

Patient Safety Radar

15 reports

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 is distressed by a bedside incision and drainage procedure performed without adequate pain management, clear communication, or proper specimen labeling.

Nurses in high-stress medical-surgical units struggle to maintain situational awareness and identify critical patient deterioration signs due to being overwhelmed by endless tasks and documentation requirements.

44medium
Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety Management
4HighStable
50

DenialDeflect for Therapy

3 reports

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 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.

Insurance denied coverage for a patient's physical therapy visit due to reviewer inconsistency and unclear criteria, despite the patient still having functional limitations.

33medium
Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety Management
4HighStable

Individual Problems

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QuickID Care

New grad nurse in long-term care struggles to identify residents with dementia who lack wristbands or identifiers, and must learn a new software system with minimal training.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementNurse4High$ implied
0
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CrisisCard Dementia

Nurses and dementia carers lack a quick-reference tool for managing middle-stage dementia crises like agitation, sundowning, and resistance to care.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementNurse4High$ implied
0
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DeEscalateAI

Psychiatric nurses lack effective non-medication de-escalation techniques for patients with schizophrenia who are acutely agitated and unresponsive to rapport-building.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementPsychiatric Nurse4High$ implied
0
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LineTracker Pro

ICU staff need a reliable way to track when central line administration sets were last changed to ensure compliance with q4-7 day replacement schedules.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementNurse4High$ implied
0
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NephroSafe Monitor

A nurse is concerned about the risks of accidentally clamping a nephrostomy tube for 8 hours in a patient dependent on it for drainage.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementNurse4High$ implied
0
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VeganMed Alert

Heparin derived from animals is prescribed to vegan patients without routine assessment of animal derivative concerns.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementNurse3Medium
0
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NICU DrawAssist

NICU lab tests are frequently rejected due to clotted or hemolyzed samples, leading to stressful recollects and conflict between lab techs and nurses.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementLab Technician4High$ implied
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SafeDischarge Checklist

Nurse missed mandatory newborn screening (TCB) due to workflow pressure and disorganized discharge process, leading to fear of disciplinary action and need to recall patient.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementNurse3Medium$ implied
0
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AdvocateShield

Experienced ER nurse struggles to advocate for patient safety against hospital hierarchy and younger clinicians, fearing backlash or contract cancellation when challenging poor practices.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementNurse4High$ implied
0
47

CareConnect ER

Emergency department nurses need a reliable method to contact family for unconscious patients who have no emergency contact listed in their chart.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementNurse3Medium$ implied
0
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SecureHeart Positioner

Perioperative team needs a safe way to secure patients during open heart surgery without using a safety strap, but current protocol change leaves patients unsecured.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementSurgical Team Member4High$ implied
0
52

MedPriority Pro

Nurses in long-term care cannot prioritize conflicting medication schedules for stable patients, leading to delayed or missed medications.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementNurse4High$ implied
0
47

ActiveCare Coach

Physical therapists struggle to transition chronic pain patients from passive manual therapy to active exercise/movement interventions.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementPhysical Therapist3Medium$ implied
0
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MotivateFlow

Therapists struggle to engage patients who are unwilling to give exercise or movement a chance, leading to early drop-off and wasted visits.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementTherapist3Medium
0
47

MoveFirst Patient Education & Engagement

Patients refuse to try exercise and demand manual therapy, making it difficult to treat root causes.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementHealthcare Provider (e.g., Physical Therapist, Chiropractor, Personal Trainer)3Medium$ implied
0
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FallStop Coach

Home health workers struggle to get patients and their families to follow safety recommendations like removing slippery rugs, risking falls.

Home ServicesPatient Safety ManagementHome Health Aide3Medium
0
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HomeRecover PT

Patients are not receiving adequate physical therapy in skilled nursing facilities due to rushed discharges and reduced 1:1 therapy time, while home-based therapy offers more consistent daily exercises.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementPhysical Therapist4High$ implied
0
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TheraTrack Protocol

Physical therapists struggle to ensure patients follow post-operative rehabilitation protocols correctly when doing home exercise programs independently.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementPhysical Therapist3Medium$ implied
0
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RehabCoach Pro

Patients post-knee surgery are terrified of movement and fail to follow prescribed rehab protocols due to pain and lack of guidance.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementPhysical Therapist4High$ implied
0
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TheraCoach Remote

Therapists are concerned that a new 'quiet knee' protocol delaying outpatient PT until 4 weeks post-op will lead to poor patient adherence to home exercise programs and development of abnormal gait mechanics.

Health, Wellness, and BeautyPatient Safety ManagementTherapist3Medium$ implied

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