1. Or rather a clear overview?
Chaos in the Emergency Department?

2. Adequate support for
every single care provider
working in
critical medical care.

3. For every patient: the right care, at the right moment, by the right person.

4. connecting the dots

5. WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE for the emergency department

6. E.care ED AssessmentTool
Functional gap:
Sequences in non-sequential workflows
Documents unfortunately don’t disappear
Checklists with calculations and follow-up actions
Need for steering examinations and workflows
Per specialism
Per patient type
Solution:
E.care ED AssessmentTool
Available as a module as of version 3.0

7. E.care ED AssessmentTool
Construction kit (like Lego or Meccano) with following possibilities:
Create assessments (Administrator)
Fill in assessments (Nurse / Doctor)
Define workflows
Buildup documentation
Documents and messages
Reports
Filled in, standardized PDF-files
Solution:
E.care ED AssessmentTool
Available as a module as of version 3.0

8. Create an assessment
(Administrator)

9. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Free text
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10. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Formatted text (postal code, telephone, number format,...)
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11. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Calendar
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12. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Dropdown
1 Selection
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13. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Radiobutton 1 Selection
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14. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Checkbox
Multiple selections possible
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15. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Button: open an application or website
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16. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Panel = cosmetics:
“Pimp your form”
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17. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Picture: Photo, Logo, ...
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18. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Drawing: enables drawing on a background
(e.g.: on a corpus, heart, denture, ...)
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19. Create an assessment (Administrator)
Define content and lay-out of every building block with these settings.
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20. Create an assessment (Administrator)
… and define how and where each answer is saved in the E.care-database
1 to 1 to a known field in the database (name, date of birth, weight, statistic field,…), so that the question is answered automatically.
As documentation in an existing field in the tab Clinical (e.g. anamnesis)
As a “clinical line” which isn’t shown in the application, but is saved in the database.
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21. Fill in an assessment
(Nurse / Doctor)

22. To fill in an assessment, no additional knowledge or training is required.
Documenting will turn out to be:
faster
completer
easier

23. Fill in an assessment (Nurse / Doctor)
Click the checkmark to open the assessment.
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24. Answers can lead to a calculated score.
Fill in an assessment (Nurse / Doctor)
Answers can lead to a calculated score.
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25. Fill in an assessment (Nurse / Doctor)
… and at the bottom, the percentage of answered mandatory questions is shown.
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26. Fill in an assessment (Nurse / Doctor)
You can
- close an assessment (remains editable)
- definitely close an assessment (becomes read only)
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27. Assessments steer the workflows!
When an assessment is closed:
the task is considered as executed
all follow-up actions are initiated
Assessments steer the workflows!

28. Define workflows

29. Therefor we setup “Rules” for each answer
Each answer to each question can initiate a new step in the care process:
a new task (possibly again an assessment …)
a new examination or measurement
a document
or a combination
You dispose of UNLIMITED steering possibilities.

30. Buildup documentation

31. All answers are saved
Visible in existing fields
Or not visible behind the scenes
THAT MEANS
All answers can be used
in documents or messages
in reports
or in standardized PDF-files

32. Wherefore do we use assessments?

33. Standardized inquiry or measurement
MRSA-screening
Geriatric assessments
Modified Early Warning Score …
Possibly with corresponding calculation of scores

34. Example: Geriatric assessment

35. Example: MRSA-screening

36. Example: GRACE Risk Score

37. Example: BRASS-index

38. Wherefore do we use assessments? Documentation in one flow, e.g.:
Triage-assessment
Nurse anamnesis
Examination-checklists per professional group or specialism

39. Example: Checklist at admission

40. Example: Neurology

41. Wherefore do we use assessments?
Transferring non-userfriendly PDF-files (or parts of it) to paperless “forms”
To make available the filled in PDF-file at a later point in time.

42. Example: Shockroom-protocol

43. For all questions whose answer influences or steers further workflows.
Wherefore do we use assessments?
For all questions whose answer influences or steers further workflows.

44. Why do you need the AssessmentTool?

45. Document faster and more efficiently
Quality improvement of the documentation
Monitor completeness of the documentation
Guarantee information flows
Support and steering the workflows
Adapted to specific target groups
Easy to administer
Recognizability and user-friendliness as a solution to fear of IT

46. The AssessmentTool
= the last step to paperless and qualitative documentation and steering the workflows

47. User of the E.care ED application share experiences and assessments.
E.care offers an online platform:
The assessment-catalogue.

48. every single care provider working in critical medical care.
Adequate support for
every single care provider
working in
critical medical care.
For every patient: the right care, at the right moment, by the right person.
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