Mesal­vo and Medanets advance dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion in hos­pi­tals

Oulu-based Medanets and Mesal­vo have estab­lished a part­ner­ship to opti­mise process­es in day-to-day care and sus­tain­ably increase patient safe­ty. The com­pa­nies aim to intro­duce advance­ments with Mesalvo’s intel­li­gent solu­tion for clin­i­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion and patient man­age­ment and Medanets’ app for health­care pro­fes­sion­als. 

Mod­ern med­ica­tion man­age­ment: dig­i­tal, process-opti­mised & avoid­ing loss of infor­ma­tion

Health­care pro­fes­sion­als use Mesalvo’s med­ica­tion and dig­i­tal curve solu­tion for pre­scrip­tions, admin­is­tra­tive tasks, and orders. Thanks to the Medanets app, the patient and their med­ica­tion are now iden­ti­fied by scan­ning bar­codes on their wrist­band and med­ica­tion sachet at the bed­side. Med­ica­tion infor­ma­tion is fetched imme­di­ate­ly from Mesalvo’s solu­tion. Sim­i­lar­ly, the med­ica­tion admin­is­tra­tion doc­u­ment­ed with the app is auto­mat­i­cal­ly trans­ferred to Mesalvo’s dig­i­tal curve. In addi­tion, health­care pro­fes­sion­als can enter mea­sure­ment data, such as blood pres­sure read­ings, direct­ly into the app. These flow into Mesalvo’s dig­i­tal curve with­out any loss of infor­ma­tion. This elim­i­nates error-prone inter­me­di­ate steps, such as paper doc­u­men­ta­tion, which fre­quent­ly char­ac­teris­es every­day care in many hos­pi­tals.

Fast deci­sion sup­port in emer­gen­cies – the inter­ac­tion of the dig­i­tal curve and the app in every­day care

Thanks to bar­code scan­ning with a tablet or smart­phone, health­care pro­fes­sion­als can check a patient’s up-to-date med­ica­tion direct­ly at the patient’s bed­side before admin­is­ter­ing the med­i­cine – quick­ly, eas­i­ly, and safe­ly. Elec­tron­ic patient and med­ica­tion iden­ti­fi­ca­tion ensures the right med­ica­tion giv­en to the right per­son at the right time, min­i­miz­ing con­fu­sion and errors.

Mesalvo’s dig­i­tal chart gives pro­fes­sion­als a com­pre­hen­sive patient data overview, includ­ing vital signs, med­ica­tion, and pain his­to­ry. In com­bi­na­tion with assess­ments, e.g., the Ear­ly Warn­ing Score avail­able with­in the Medanets app, staff can eval­u­ate the patient’s con­di­tion. Depend­ing on the EWS result, the app dis­plays clin­i­cal guide­lines, such as “The patient’s con­di­tion appears to be dete­ri­o­rat­ing. Please inform the doc­tor imme­di­ate­ly.” Based on the score, a “sep­sis bun­dle” (a series of imme­di­ate mea­sures to improve the treat­ment and man­age­ment of patients with sep­sis) can also be ini­ti­at­ed; for exam­ple, the patient can be treat­ed quick­ly and appro­pri­ate­ly to pre­vent life-threat­en­ing com­pli­ca­tions. This way, the dig­i­tal and mobile solu­tions trig­ger work­flows and sup­port doc­u­men­ta­tion and deci­sion-mak­ing process­es.

Safe phar­ma­cother­a­py: closed-loop med­ica­tion man­age­ment process with Mesal­vo

The inter­ac­tion of unit dose with AMTS func­tion­al­i­ties and the Meona curve med­ica­tion, in com­bi­na­tion with the Medanets app, rev­o­lu­tion­izes the med­ica­tion process in hos­pi­tals and ensures an even safer med­ica­tion sup­ply for patients. The pre­scrip­tion in the dig­i­tal curve solu­tion enables con­nect­ed unit or mul­ti-dose dis­pensers to pack­age stan­dard med­ica­tions indi­vid­u­al­ly for each patient and deliv­er them to the ward. This auto­mat­ed med­ica­tion man­age­ment replaces the man­u­al, error-prone process on the ward, increas­es patient safe­ty by reduc­ing errors through the software’s val­i­da­tion mech­a­nisms, and saves the valu­able time of health­care pro­fes­sion­als. The closed-loop med­ica­tion man­age­ment process ends with the step at the patient’s bed­side – the bar­code on the med­ica­tion sachet is scanned, com­pared with the patient data direct­ly at the bed­side, and entered into the patient’s chart so that dis­rup­tions are ruled out.

The part­ner­ship between Mesal­vo and Medanets pro­motes effec­tive col­lab­o­ra­tion and holis­tic patient care, increas­es effi­cien­cy in day-to-day care, and improves work­ing con­di­tions.

Con­tact per­sons
Lin­da Weyrauther
Mar­ket­ing Man­agerin, Mesal­vo Mannheim GmbH
linda.weyrauther@mesalvo.com

Juha-Mat­ti Ranta
CEO, Medanets
juha-matti.ranta@medanets.com

About Mesal­vo GmbH
Mesal­vo employs around 450 peo­ple who sup­port health­care providers to meet the chal­lenges of the dig­i­tal future. Mesal­vo devel­ops IT solu­tions and dig­i­talis­es and net­works all admin­is­tra­tive and med­ical process­es along the patient jour­ney. This makes the work of med­ical and admin­is­tra­tive staff eas­i­er and more effec­tive, there­by increas­ing patient safe­ty and qual­i­ty of care. Mesal­vo sig­nif­i­cant­ly con­tributes to improv­ing qual­i­ty and patient safe­ty in the health­care sec­tor. www.mesalvo.com

About Medanets
Medanets rev­o­lu­tionis­es health­care with supe­ri­or mobile solu­tions. Devel­oped with health­care pro­fes­sion­als, the app enables safe and effi­cient nurs­ing work­flows, sup­ports deci­sion-mak­ing, and leaves more time for care. The Medanets app inte­grates with EHR sys­tems and com­ple­ments their fea­tures. The app is used in more than 80 hos­pi­tals and pri­ma­ry health­care units in Europe. www.medanets.com

Source: Medanets