Hoping to decrease medical error and save patients’ lives, Redivus Health’s mobile app has made its way to Kansas.
“The mission of the company is to decrease medical error. So back when I was practicing as a doctor, I had multiple different examples of medical errors happening in the health system,” Redivus Health CEO, Jeff Dunn said. “So what we wanted to do was build something that navigates you through these time sensitive high mortality events, like cardiac arrest, stroke and sepsis.”
With this app, Redivus Health has teamed up with the University of Kansas Medical Center to provide support for healthcare providers working in rural Kansas hospitals.
"We think it's an extraordinary opportunity to partner up with a nationally recognized medical center, like KU Med,” Dunn said. “I think the opportunity here is to bring a lot of expertise from KU Med, whether that be with stroke, whether that be with sepsis, give these folks on the front line in rural Kansas a technology to help them through these events when normally they feel like they're isolated on an island sometimes.”
In the specific incidents such as cardiac arrest, sepsis and strokes, Dunn said the app will help healthcare providers navigate through the event, documenting it in real time.
“Many times in rural America, you don't see a sepsis event that often, you don't see a stroke event that often or a cardiac arrest. So what we say is the less you see it, the less practice you have,” Dunn said. “So what this is really providing is ok, I think I have something that's really high mortality, I'm going to launch this application and help me get through this event because I haven't seen it that often.”
Dunn says this app hopes to provide an extra hand they may need when time is critical.
“They’re real heroes, the folks that are practicing in rural America because they don't have much help from subspecialists, so they don't have that critical care doctor there at their beckon call,” Dunn said. “They don't have that neurologist there, so really the primary care doctors drive healthcare out in rural America, and what we're trying to do is support them.”
Dunn says the company launched a pilot app in 2015.
"We raised almost a million dollars back then, we've raised almost another million to launch the company," Dunn said. "We built a prototype back with myself and four other doctors back in 2012 and worked on that for a couple of years, so this new application is really the version one of what we want providers to use."
The app will begin launching in five Kansas hospitals this week and next week.
The hospitals are Hays Medical Center, Cheyenne CO Hospital, Sheridan County Hospital, Citizens Medical Center and Norton County Hospital.
