Problem

Are you using paper reports to capture the detailed data your falls team needs to reduce falls? Are you manually entering this data into your EHR and into an excel spreadsheet because your EHR doesn't hold all the details you need? We feel your pain.

In many communities the Director of Nursing creates a workflow that includes paper reports that staff fill out, an excel sheet that's manually updated weekly or monthly with the paper reports, and a manual process to enter the incident into the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. All of this work, and the ultimate goal is to reduce falls by giving the falls team the details they need to understand what's happening and take action. There must be a better way.

Solution

We're building a a simple web application that allows staff to easily and quickly enter the detailed fall report data once ​from any device or PC, and makes it instantly available to the Director of Nursing and the falls team to review. The tool generates reports on key information like:

• What time of day, shift, or day of the week has the most falls?
• What locations are most common for falls?
• What are the biggest contributing factors for falls?
• Are a majority of falls witnessed or unwitnessed?
• What are the most common fall injuries?

The solution also automatically connects and updates your EHR with the incident report information. The DoN can review the reports, but doesn't need to manually enter data. No more paper reports, and no more spreadsheets.

Our Progress

We're currently building out this tool and engaging in early trials and BETAs. The goal is to replace and improve upon the manual workflow used by many communities, as well as provide communities an out-of-the-box tool if they don't have something today. We want to help reduce falls. If you are a DoN, falls group team member, or interested party, please sign-up above and send us your feedback and let us know if you want to try it out. We'll keep you informed of our progress.

Also, please note that upBed (our bed-exit fall prevention solution) is not part of this effort. If you're interested in upBed please see that portion of the website.