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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 novice nurse struggles to keep track of medication changes and patient information during busy shifts, leading to a medication error.”
“A nurse fears regulatory reporting after a medication error, highlighting an unsafe medication administration process with inadequate double-check support and poor visibility into recent medication changes.”
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.
“Physical injury and chronic pain from manually lifting and repositioning morbidly obese patients in bed, despite using proper body mechanics.”
“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.”
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.”
“Nurses need a reliable way to ensure the medication amount removed from the dispensing system matches the administered dose to avoid discrepancies.”
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.”
“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.”
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 post-knee surgery are terrified of movement and fail to follow prescribed rehab protocols due to pain and lack of guidance.”
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.
“Nurses and dementia carers lack a quick-reference tool for managing middle-stage dementia crises like agitation, sundowning, and resistance to care.”
“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.”
Individual Problems
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.
VeganMed Alert
Heparin derived from animals is prescribed to vegan patients without routine assessment of animal derivative concerns.
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.
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.
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.
CareConnect ER
Emergency department nurses need a reliable method to contact family for unconscious patients who have no emergency contact listed in their chart.
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.
MedPriority Pro
Nurses in long-term care cannot prioritize conflicting medication schedules for stable patients, leading to delayed or missed medications.
ActiveCare Coach
Physical therapists struggle to transition chronic pain patients from passive manual therapy to active exercise/movement interventions.
MotivateFlow
Therapists struggle to engage patients who are unwilling to give exercise or movement a chance, leading to early drop-off and wasted visits.
MoveFirst Patient Education & Engagement
Patients refuse to try exercise and demand manual therapy, making it difficult to treat root causes.
FallStop Coach
Home health workers struggle to get patients and their families to follow safety recommendations like removing slippery rugs, risking falls.
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.
TheraTrack Protocol
Physical therapists struggle to ensure patients follow post-operative rehabilitation protocols correctly when doing home exercise programs independently.
RehabCoach Pro
Patients post-knee surgery are terrified of movement and fail to follow prescribed rehab protocols due to pain and lack of guidance.
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.
ScarSense Rehab
Patients undergoing Quiet Knee protocol after knee surgery are developing excessive scar tissue requiring manipulation under anesthesia, indicating a need for better postoperative monitoring and intervention.
NightWatch Escalation
Night-shift nurse struggles to act on abnormal lab results because on-call physicians refuse to handle non-emergent care overnight, leaving proactive patient management undone.
IVCompass
IV pumps do not alert when hanging ceftriaxone with lactated Ringer's solution, requiring manual clearing of an alert that may be missed by new grads.
DrainFlow Active
Gravity drains for pelvic abscesses stop flowing even when properly placed and managed, causing retained fluid and clinical frustration.
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