Hospital
Admissions, the ward, treatment sheets and discharge for inpatient care.
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Hospital
- Use the ward boardThe ward board shows every patient currently admitted to the hospital on one screen, grouped by triage level. Use it at the start of a shift, on a wall monitor, or whenever you…
- Admit a patientAdmitting a patient opens a hospital stay. Once admitted, the patient appears on the ward board and you can write treatment orders for them. Use this for planned admissions and…
- Set up departmentsDepartments are your hospital's own list of services, such as Emergency & Critical Care, Cardiology, Internal Medicine or Surgery. Referrals are routed to a department from this…
- Manage ownersOwners is the hospital's list of the people responsible for its patients, called guardians on screen. Each guardian record holds contact details, the patients they're linked to,…
- Manage the blood bankThe Blood Bank keeps your blood donor programme and a record of every bag of blood product you hold: whole blood, packed red cells, plasma and so on. Each unit is one physical b…
- Take in a new referralReferrals is the inbox for cases sent to your hospital: by referring vets, from emergency walk-ins, internal transfers or owners coming to you directly. Record each one as soon…
- Manage referring practices and vetsReferring Contacts is your list of the practices and vets who send you cases. Add them here once, then pick them when you record a referral.
- Give referring vets portal accessYou can give a referring vet a private link to your referral portal. With it they can follow the cases they sent you and read the reports you've sent back, and, if you allow it,…
- Read referral reportsReferral Reports shows how your referral network is doing: how many cases each referring practice sends you, and which relationships have gone quiet. It only reads your referral…
- Build a treatment-plan estimateA treatment-plan estimate tells the owner what a course of treatment is likely to cost, as a low-to-high range. You build it as a draft, send it, record whether the owner approv…
- Bill a hospital stayA hospital invoice is the bill for a stay. Each one starts from an approved treatment-plan estimate: converting the estimate creates the invoice with its lines (see treatment-pl…
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- End a hospital stayEvery hospital stay ends one of three ways: the patient goes home (discharge), moves to another facility (transfer), or dies. The End Stay screen handles all three, and is also…
- Keep an anesthesia recordThe anesthesia record is the sheet for a procedure under anesthesia during a hospital stay: the procedure and ASA status, the key times from premedication to recovery, a timelin…
- Log contact with the owner during a stayThe owner contact log is a record of every time the hospital tried to reach a patient's owner during a stay, and what happened. Log failed attempts too ("no answer", "left voice…
- Record a death in hospitalWhen a patient dies during a hospital stay, the death record captures what happened: when, how, whether CPR was attempted, how the owner was told and what happens to the remains…
- Record a patient's code statusA patient's code status says what the team should do if their heart or breathing stops: full resuscitation, closed-chest or open-chest CPR, or do not resuscitate (DNR). Record i…
- Record a transfusionThe Transfusion Record holds everything about giving blood to one patient: crossmatch results, each transfusion, and any reaction. Reactions are classified on the four separate…
- Record a trauma or neurologic scoreThe trauma score screen holds every Animal Trauma Triage (ATT) and modified Glasgow Coma Scale (mGCS) score recorded on a visit, and shows how they've changed. The first score i…
- Work a referral caseEach referral has its own page where you move it through its stages, assign it to a department and specialist, attach the records that came with it, and send reports back to the…
- Write treatment ordersTreatment orders are the instructions for an admitted patient's care: medications, fluids, feeding, walks, monitoring and procedures. When you give an order a dosing interval, V…