Monday, November 25, 2019

Building a Plan (Outline) - Part 2

 While Part 1 of the outline plan is mainly concerned with the entry and immediate treatment in the Emergency Department, Part 2 looks at when a longer stay within the ED or possible admission to the main hospital is required.

When a patient passes through the ED and is discharged within hours, the patient documentation is no way as complex as that needed for longer attendances. In these cases the patient -

  • May have a serious or life-threatening injury.
  • May be experiencing serious complications as a result of an existing condition.
  • May have come in contact with and have been infected by a contagious disease.
  • May have serious psychiatric issues.
  • May need surgery.
  • Many other reasons.



In the above cases, data management requirements will grow exponentially.

Also required will be -
  • Tracking of patients to theatre, x-ray, scans and other locations.
  • A wide range of forms and other documentation to be stored as a separate record but including the ED documentations (Admission Record)
  • Bed Management
  • Patient Billing for ED 'services'
  • In-Patient Billing
  • Follow up Out-Patient appointments
  • And more...

If you are a medical consultant working for an Emergency Trauma Hospital or know of another consultant or hospital who would like to collaborate with us (CompassAFM) on the development of PatientManager, please contact us at info@compasspatientmanager.com
We would love to hear from you.
Dominic Murnane

MD Compass AFM 


PatientManager® and its logo is a registered trademark and owned by Compass Software Technology Limited (T/A CompassAFM). All product images are protected by copyright© (2019 -2021) and may not be used without the written permission of the owner - Compass Software Technology Limited. All rights reserved.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Building a Plan (Outline) - Part 1

They say talk is cheap. Could CompassAFM produce a software solution as good as or better than a multi-national software company. We had done it before with FacilityManager.

We have to build a stage 1 working model of our proposed software to show both our concept and competence to interested parties - which we have to find! Unless we could convince ourselves of our own ability first, it would be pointless approaching others. Were we going to re-invent the wheel, no. The plan was just to make it a whole lot better.

As with FacilityManager, the plan was to approach the project totally from a user perspective, not a software developers dream of the ideal solution. Here is where the almost daily interaction with a major working Emergency Department would pay off. Over the months, Mr. Murnane had been listening to the comments, concerns, issues and wishes of consultants, doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants and clerical staff and these would be the foundation of building a plan for a new solution.

The biggest issue heard again and again was the need to be able to instantly access historic patient information and to be able to add to this in a way to live collaborate with all the other members of the patient care team. A paper based solution cannot do this.

So what is needed -

From the time a patient s referred by a GP (doctor) or has been accessed by Paramedics, a live data feed on the patients condition should be established with the receiving hospital.


Data on all previous hospital attendances, procedures and outcomes should be fully accessible to the medical team prior to patient arrival.

Patient identification should be possible in 99.9% of cases in the event the patient is unresponsive due to medical condition. (Unless patient is a new attendance).



Data flow - As the patient moves through the Emergency Department and beyond, their data (treatment, medication, test results, scans, medical reviews etc., must be updated an readily available to consultants, doctors and other healthcare professionals. 

For this the data needs to be available both on static PC's and mobile devices - tablets.










Data Transfer - Output from other medical devices needs a pathway or other means to transfer to the PatientManager database.

Data Lists - Numerous other sources of data such as - Daily Consultants On-Call need to be easily integrated.


Above all the PatientManager database must be very easy and intuitive to use.

If you are a medical consultant working for an Emergency Trauma Hospital or know of another consultant or hospital who would like to collaborate with us (CompassAFM) on the development of PatientManager, please contact us at info@compasspatientmanager.com
We would love to hear from you.
Dominic Murnane
MD Compass AFM 


PatientManager® and its logo is a registered trademark and owned by Compass Software Technology Limited (T/A CompassAFM). All product images are protected by copyright© (2019 -2021) and may not be used without the written permission of the owner - Compass Software Technology Limited. All rights reserved.