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View allNurseFlow Command
Nurses on hospital units face fragmented communication, lack of visibility into equipment and staffing status, and inefficient manual coordination, leading to delays and safety risks. There is an opportunity to provide a centralized, real-time operations dashboard that integrates data from multiple hospital systems to orchestrate nursing workflows and reduce wait times.
“An ICU nurse transitioning to a long-term care facility struggles to complete medication passes for 28 residents within an 8-hour shift, causing her to skip breaks and charting time.”
“A new nurse on orientation is overwhelmed by high patient acuity and ratio, leading to missed communications, forgotten tasks, and physical and mental exhaustion, with no effective routine or tool to manage the chaos.”
FlowNurse Optimizer
Nurses face interruptions from non-clinical tasks and predictable events during peak times, causing delays and safety risks. There's no tool to dynamically adjust nurse schedules and task assignments based on real-time conditions and proactive alerts.
“Nurse at a skilled nursing facility struggles to complete medication administration for 20-27 patients within the allotted 3-hour window, causing delays until midnight and risking patient safety.”
“Nurses lack a reliable, data-driven way to determine when a patient is truly ready for the operating room beyond manual checklist verification.”
Individual Problems
ShiftSafe Intake & Handoff Assistant
Nurses are forced to perform incomplete patient intake and charting when critically ill patients arrive right before shift change, due to rigid time constraints and conflicting unit policies.
NurseFlow Prioritizer
New graduate nurse overwhelmed by competing tasks, leading to delayed discharges, upset patients, and inability to stay on top of clinical understanding.
TheraFlow Continuity
New grad physical therapist frustrated with high volume of evaluations and reassessments, lack of continuity with patients, and modality-heavy treatment plans by other providers.
DialyFlow - Dialysis Shift Optimizer
New outpatient dialysis nurse struggles with high patient ratios, manual equipment setup, slow turnover, and toxic coworker culture while earning less than previous jobs.
UniDoc PT
Small PT clinic needs to run three separate tools (EMR, billing system, manual eligibility check) to complete one workflow, causing errors and inefficiency.
ORShift Pro
Nurses lack a reliable, data-driven way to determine when a patient is truly ready for the operating room beyond manual checklist verification.
ScriptBatch Pro
Athenahealth requires creating a separate message for each prescription, making multi-prescription requests inefficient.
OR Flow Navigator
When a surgeon is late, there is no standard protocol for whether to bring the patient into the operating room, causing confusion and potential liability.
FlowICU – Optimized ICU Workflow Platform
Disorganized workflow and poor software (AllScripts) in a new hospital ICU lead to high cognitive load, unsafe practices, and nurse burnout.
OrderGuard Queue Manager
Inpatient pharmacists are interrupted by nursing staff requesting immediate verification of medication orders that have only been in queue for 0-1 minutes, preventing thorough clinical evaluation.
NurseTaskFlow
Nurses are burdened with non-clinical tasks like collecting meal trays due to kitchen staffing shortages, and these tasks become permanent additions to their workload.
PhleboFlow
LabCorp's outdated computer system requires manual entry of numerous test codes, causing 10-minute delays per order while patients wait, worsening understaffing and poor training.
MedFlow Optimizer
Nurse at a skilled nursing facility struggles to complete medication administration for 20-27 patients within the allotted 3-hour window, causing delays until midnight and risking patient safety.
EKGFlow
Emergency department staff must manually track down technicians to perform EKGs, causing delays in patient care.
MDS Tracker Pro
MDS coordinators lack a reliable workflow tracking system to ensure no assessments are missed.
CareFlow CNA
CNAs in long-term care must balance early morning incontinence care with scheduled water passes, creating workflow pressure.
RingGuard Band
Healthcare workers risk losing engagement rings when they slip off during glove removal and get discarded with used gloves.
IdeaFlow Hub
A nurse in the OR feels her workflow improvement ideas are dismissed by management, leading to frustration and a desire to leave.
ShiftChange Sync
Nurses experience frequent, predictable patient bowel movements during shift change causing significant workflow disruption and increased workload.
SurgeFlow ED
Emergency Department needs a structured surge plan for patient throughput management, especially during storm-related surges.
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