Updates from Smartmed

Notes on our software, our projects and what we have learned building for healthcare teams.

  1. Product walkthrough

    Following the source in Beacon

    A short walk through the Beacon preview on our homepage: a sample question, an illustrative answer and the document record it links to.

    The Ask Beacon screen in the Beacon preview, with the sample question "Where can I find the oxygen therapy guideline?", an illustrative answer, and a linked example source titled Adult oxygen therapy.
  2. Product walkthrough

    Inside the nursing rota: understanding shift coverage

    How the nursing rota shows who is already on each day and night shift, so staff can see where cover is thin while they choose their requests.

    The nursing rota Shift requests page with test data. A Shift coverage table shades each day's counts green, amber or red, above a calendar of the nurse's own shifts.
  3. Practical guide

    When a clinical spreadsheet needs to become a shared system

    Signs that a team’s spreadsheet has outgrown itself, and four things to settle before it becomes a shared system: access, validation, reporting and ownership.

    The CAPANET daily data table with sample data, showing dated assessments, intervention selections, day counts and activity codes.