For rural generalists
Specialist-informed guidance
for rural and remote practice.
Your health service's pathways across every specialty on web and mobile, fully offline, with a record of each nurse assessment ready for your review.
Available on iOS and Android. Pathways are enabled by each health service. Book a demonstration for your service.
The challenges
- Rural generalists cover the emergency department, inpatients and clinics across every specialty, often as the only doctor on site, with specialist advice by phone and telehealth cover that has competing demands.
- Reception is often poor at remote sites and on the road between clinics, so guidance and records that need a connection cannot be relied on.
- Overnight and on-call, nursing staff ask for decisions about patients the doctor has not seen, with little structured information to go on.
- With shift patterns, handover from clinic staff about the previous day's patients is often limited, and the reasoning behind earlier decisions is lost.
- Each health service and site has its own guidance, antibiograms and processes, and resistance patterns differ from metropolitan centres.
01 · LOCAL GUIDANCE
Guidance tailored to your region
Pathways incorporate the regional antibiogram, local resistance patterns and rural-specific advice where required. In the joint WACHS and UTS evaluation of the platform, participants identified local relevance as the key differentiator from national guidelines, and uptake was highest at the smallest sites. Read the evaluation snapshot (PDF).
I just use it for everything. Being in my 41st year of practice, I forget things far more than I did when I was younger. And also antibiotic guidelines change all the time, so I don't trust that what I did yesterday is the same as today's recommendations.Rural practitioner, evaluation participant P05
02 · CLEAR ENDPOINTS
Patient-specific recommendations with clear escalation
Each pathway concludes with a specific agent, dose and duration, with dosing calculators integrated and the guideline version recorded. Endpoints indicate when to seek advice or arrange transfer.
03 · HANDOVER AND ON-CALL
A structured record of every nurse assessment
When nurses work through a pathway before calling, you receive the route they took, the answers given, the guidance version and any medicine supplied under protocol, so an on-call decision starts from structured information. The same records are waiting for review the next day, giving a reliable handover across shifts and sites.
- The nurse's assessment in front of you during the call
- Records of the previous day's protocol supplies and assessments for review
- Referral, clinic management and recall from the same record
04 · NO RECEPTION NEEDED
Full offline use on the road and at remote sites
The iOS and Android apps run every pathway and calculator without a connection, at a remote clinic or between sites. Records captured out of range are queued and synchronised automatically when the connection returns.
- Pathways, calculators and medication lists available offline
- Records synchronised when back in range
- Switch between health services without signing out
Designed for practice across multiple sites
One app across health services
Switch between health services without signing out.
Every specialty
Pathways for emergency, inpatient and clinic presentations across specialties, not only antimicrobials.
Transfers to aged care
Printable medication chart for patients transferring to residential aged care.
Community protocols
Remote and Aboriginal community protocols where required by the health service.
77
hospitals live across Australia and Canada, most of them rural or regional
48.1s
average time to complete a pathway
20.8 pts
improvement in prescribing appropriateness where adopted, in the WACHS and UTS evaluation
iOS
and Android apps with offline access
Joint evaluation of the platform by the WA Country Health Service (WACHS) and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), funded by the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC-0248). Prescribing was compared before and after implementation in a balanced sample of three adopter and five non-adopter hospitals, and the estimates describe an effect observed where the platform was adopted. WACHS deploys the platform as AMPS. Read the evaluation snapshot (PDF).
Download the app
Download Clinical Branches and sign in with your health service account. The regional pharmacist or Director of Nursing can enable local pathways.
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