Guideline and Workflow Management Platform for Healthcare Providers
Client: Want to take a stand against antimicrobial resistance? Streamline your healthcare processes with our guideline and workflow management platform.
Overview
The client aimed to combat antimicrobial resistance by guiding healthcare professionals with patient-based drug recommendations in hospitals. The Travancore Analytics team had to develop an administrative tool, incorporating the UIL for effective guideline implementation.
- A web-based administrative tool that can create multiple workflows from an indication and a group of workflows forms a guideline.
- The goal of a guideline is to guide the end-user to make the best decision based on many workflows.
- Clinical outcomes are enhanced and antibiotic prescription for specific diseases is improved.
The Case
One of the world’s most acute public health problems is the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials, or drugs, as it contributes to antibiotic resistance and poor infection prevention and control, badly impacting the health of patients who are not even exposed to them. In order to address this concern, hospitals can implement an effective guideline and workflow management platform. The guidelines created by the platform can be used for Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS), one of the strategic objectives of the WHO global action plan on antimicrobial resistance. This rational and systematic approach has become a mandatory program a healthcare institution should implement for their accreditation. Our client, one of Australia’s leading public hospitals, wanted to take a stand against antimicrobial resistance and guide the responsible people (such as junior doctors, nurses, or pharmacists) to find the most appropriate recommendations on drugs or combinations of multiple drugs – based on the patient’s health record and physical findings in a hospital. They reached out to our team at TA to develop an administrative tool – with the help of Universal Indication List (UIL) – and build effective and proper guidelines/workflows in their system.
Challenges
Our client wanted to build a web-based, administrative tool that can be inherited to an efficient guideline and workflow management platform to improve transparency and overall work culture in a practice. Developed using the latest technologies, they wanted an easy management licensed tool that can create guidelines and import existing excel data.
Apart from these challenges, there were a few more requirements the client wanted in their workflow management system which include:
Appropriate assessments in forming new guidelines and workflows
Track the use of medicines and collect data regarding the severity of medicines
Reconciling multiple data sources into proper and meaningful guidelines
Solution
This workflow management software mainly covers:
Modules
Users
Key Features
AntiMicrobial Stewardship: A concept for promoting the rational use of antimicrobial drugs.
Guidelines: A guideline consists of many workflows to guide the end-users to find the most appropriate recommendations (recommended drug or combinations of multiple drugs) based on the patient’s health record and physical findings in a hospital.
Workflow: A workflow consists of recommended drugs or combinations of multiple drugs which will be derived based on certain defined conditions for an indication. There could be any number of preferred recommendations and alternate recommendations in a workflow for an indication, the order will be defined by the sequence in which the recommendations are configured on the workflow.
User Management
Guideline Management
Super Admin Can add, edit and remove guidelines Can view all guidelines Associate new guidelines List all users
Can add, edit and remove guidelines
Can view all guidelines
Associate new guidelines
List all users
Guideline Author Owner of a particular guideline Can only view, edit and remove their assigned guideline Can allot a guideline writer
Owner of a particular guideline
Can only view, edit and remove their assigned guideline
Can allot a guideline writer
Guideline Writer Assigned by guideline author Create multiple workflows for the associated guidelines
Assigned by guideline author
Create multiple workflows for the associated guidelines
Can add, edit and remove guidelines
Can view all guidelines
Associate new guidelines
List all users
Owner of a particular guideline
Can only view, edit and remove their assigned guideline
Can allot a guideline writer
Assigned by guideline author
Create multiple workflows for the associated guidelines
Have a global indication list
Guideline Managers can create guidelines and publish them to users
Multiple Guideline Managers can work on the same guideline
Custom parameters are created as per requirements of the domain
Can be reviewed in tabular and tree structure
Can work as a standalone application as well as a plug-into for other systems
Can preview Guideline
Flag high-risk indications
Impact
The world urgently needs to change the way it prescribes and uses antibiotics because antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts of the world. With the development of this guideline and workflow management software, we can take a stand against antibiotic resistance. The tool benefited our client to improve their clinical outcomes and minimize harm by improving antibiotic prescribing and providing a guideline to find the appropriate drug for a particular disease for a person. Moreover, migration is easier with this tool, that is when it comes to moving an entire system to another, importing guidelines from the existing system to another network seems a bit tedious task.
Other benefits of this tool include:
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