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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
StickSafe Nurse
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.
DryGrip OR
A nurse with hyperhidrosis worries that excessive hand sweating will interfere with sterile glove donning in the OR, compromising sterility.
SafeSession Shield
Therapist repeatedly gets norovirus from a client who drools heavily, unable to protect herself without damaging rapport.
SafeAssign Shield
Nurses cannot legally refuse unsafe patient assignments without fear of being reported for patient abandonment, even when understaffing creates dangerous conditions.
RestraintSafe
Nurses in psychiatric facilities experience extreme stress and fear of losing their license due to incomplete documentation of patient restraint reassessments during busy shifts.
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.
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