IPCI Inaugural Conference at CityWest Hotel May 2016

Thanks to the Infection Prevention Control Ireland team for putting together a great event last week based around Sepsis Management: six steps to save a life.  We really enjoyed exhibiting and getting the opportunity to meet with our existing clients as well as having a chat to new infection control specialists about our hand hygiene auditing tools.  

We really value all the feed back that we received and the continued support that each of the hospitals in Ireland have given us.  If we met you on the day and you'd like to avail of the free trial that we were offering, please drop us a line at info@megsupporttools.com or give Kerrill a call on 087 934 9516

St Vincents Pain Guidelines App

MEG has been working alongside St.Vincents University Hospital to design an iphone and Android app beneficial to aiding their doctors within a cirtical care setting.

Having a medical encyclopaedia just one click away has enabled doctors to easily identify and resolve challenges that they encounter on a daily basis. Apps are available both online and offline and features of the app include guidelines, tables, references and other medical information that is vital for any doctor.  This medical app ensures that doctors spend more time at the point of care leading to improved patient outcome.

If your hospital is looking to go paper-free or making guidelines available via apps, please get in touch with us at;  info@medicaleguides.com or +353 0(1) 697 1579

St. Vincent's Pain Guidelines for Andriod

Mater University Hospital App Launch

We are happy to announce the newly released Mater Hospital Antimicrobial Guidelines App which offers staff easy access to the hospitals internal guidelines on their own smartphone devices, allowing their patients to receive the best care as efficiently as possible.

The app offers supporting information on how to prescribe antibiotics appropriately, provided in an introductory, with subsequent sections to cover antimicrobial treatment recommendations for a range of infections, from commonly encountered respiratory tract infections to severe sepsis and management of complex infections in patients with haematological conditions.

As well as being available on both iOS and Android devices, the guidelines are fully functional offline so that they are always available to members of staff. Hospital administrators have access to the MEG online content management system so that the app content can be modified in-house, keeping all of the guidelines up to date as and when they are approved by the relevant committees.  

Does this sound like something your organisation would benefit from? Please contact us at;
info@medicaleguides.com | 01 697 1579 for further information.

Beaumont Hospital 'Kidney Handbook'

The Beaumont Hospital Kidney Centre remains the largest provider of renal replacement therapy in Ireland. When they came to us for a solution to make their Nephrology Guidelines available on mobile for in-hospital management and renal unit staff we were very happy to fulfil their requirements.

The 'Kidney Handbook' was launched on the 24th of July in Beaumont Hospital, giving staff access to in-house approved nephrology guidelines which include 'surgical transplant manual', 'haemodialysis' and 'accute kidney injury' clinical practice information.  The application is easy to access where it counts most, at the point of care. There is a large range of information curated by hospital staff and presented in an easily navigable and indexed format accessible on mobile and tablets.

The app has an easy to use online publishing tool, which ensures that the latest approved guidelines can be updated by a hospital administrator, published and made visible to staff on their devices. This is ideal for version control and guarantees the more up to date guidance is available to staff. Also, it's paper free and works offline (you don't have to have an internet connection to get access to the information).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maithu.bh_nephrology&hl=en
Beaumont Kidney Handbook Download from the Google Play Store

If your hospital would benefit from a solution like this, please contact us on;
info@medicaleguides.com | Kerrill 087 934 9516 // Office 01 675 1579

MEG's visit to the IPS Convention Liverpool

So we are just back in Dublin after an exciting 3 days over in Liverpool at the IPS Infection Prevention Conference 2015. Much fun was had while meeting some current clients and IPS member's.

MEG: Clinical Support Tools CDC HA-VTE Prevention Honorable Mention for Thrombocalc Project

The CDC, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, a US leading health agency advising on all aspects of health and wellbeing in the USA and globally, have awarded an Honourable Mention for the MEG and Rotunda Hospital’s Thrombocalc project.

The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland had a patient population of almost 11,000 mother delivering babies in 2014 with venous thromboembolism (VTE) the leading cause of direct maternal death. Many of deaths may have been prevented if VTE risk assessment had been performed and appropriate anticoagulation prescribed.

The objective of the project was to develop and implement a user-friendly electronic VTE risk assessment tool for use in women after delivery, to increase the number of women who undergo formal VTE risk assessment and thereby improve the prevention of VTE in these women.

Thrombocalc has provided an easy to use and highly effective mechanism for rapid, accurate assessment of individual postnatal VTE risk. The midwives and nursing staff of the Rotunda Hospital, who have incorporated this risk assessment tool as part of their standard of care, have been instrumental to the successful implementation of this VTE preventative strategy. The team is currently validating an intranet version of Thrombocalc which was also developed in collaboration ourselves.

All of us in MedicalEGuides are delighted to have worked with the team in the Rotunda hospital to create the intranet version of the Thrombocalc over the last 2 years and to be associated with the the positive outcomes associated with the project.

2015 IMSTA Medtech awards

We are delighted to announce MEG's involvement as development partner with the Rotunda Maternity Hospital for the project "Thrombocalc", and with PatientBuddy developing a Transplant app with Beaumont Hospital.

Thrombosis Calculator - Postnatal VTE Risk Calculator

Won the Healthcare Innovation Award - in collaboration with the Rotunda Team "Thrombocalc" is an electronic risk assessment tool that facilitates improved compliance with assessing risk of potentially fatal blood clots in women after giving birth.  The unique skills MEG brought to the collaboration was in linking "Thrombocalc" with other hospital systems, to ensure consistency of data and improving patient safety.  

Patient Buddys Transplant App

win eHealth Award in collaboration with Beaumont Hospital

Patient Buddy is a patient self-management platform for Kidney Transplant patients to take control of their condition. The solution is empowering Kidney Transplant patients through a smartphone application with home monitoring and diagnostics, helping them to improve the lifespan of their Transplant and giving their transplant care team additional data to improve their care.  

Shortlisted for the Healthcare Innovation Award

Our infection control solution is shortlisted for the Healthcare Innovation Award.

The Innovation – Clinical Area Award will be given to an individual or team in a clinical area who demonstrates an innovative way of thinking. The award recognises the efforts of a new or improved process, program or initiate with a demonstrated improvement in quality, service, financial operations and/or safety. The results must be measurable and show positive outcomes.

We will be presenting to the general audience at the National Healthcare Conference.  Our innovative solution for clinical audits is transforming the auditing and reporting of hand hygiene in hospitals, including Beaumont Hospital in Dublin:

"We have been using the MEG audit app and its ability to create instant reports is very appealing to staff.  We plan to roll it out for all hand hygiene audits, thus continuing our commitment to increase hand hygiene compliance in Beaumont Hospital.” - Infection Prevention & Control Team, Beaumont Hospital