AKESO

︎ Pain Points

• Miscommunications between staff members causes huge liability issues for the hospital
  
  
• Nurses sometimes find it difficult to follow the patient’s documented regimen prescribed by the doctors
  
  
• Nurse’s inefficiency due to waiting for results, for medicine or equipment to be available, charged, or fixed (scanners, stationary computers etc)
  

︎ Challenges

• Make the nurse’s rounds safer and more efficient
  
  
• Make the solution compatible with the existing EHR (Electronic Health Record) database
  

• Understand and identify the best ways to organize most important information for the nurse’s rounds

︎ Solutions

• Create a plugin app that integrates with the existing patient management software
  
  
• Offer a medication verification system for the nurses so that they are assured that they are giving the right medication
  
  
• Make the nurse’s rounds more efficient by notifying them when their patient’s information is ready (X-Rays, lab results, etc) 
  

︎ Discover

︎ Ideate & Design

︎ Test & Iterate

︎ Build & Deliver

DISCOVER

• Most softwares have multiple apps used for very specific tasks that integrate within the PMS (Patient Management Software)
  
  
• Results from our interviews reveal that Epic is the most common software used in Hospitals across the US