Local startup Redivus Health has launched a partnership with the University of Kansas Health System to help hospitals and EMS teams across Kansas quickly diagnose and treat cardiac arrest, stroke and sepsis.
Redivus Health is the creator of a “mobile clinical decision support platform” – an app that guides medical professionals, step by step, as they respond to critical situations.
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Thanks to its University of Kansas Health System partnership, Redivus will make the platform available to Kansas hospitals and EMS providers through the Kansas Heart and Stroke Collaborative, a KU-based program that seeks to improve care at rural hospitals.
“Our rural health system partners helped develop the protocols and tools to implement evidence-based guidelines,” said Robert Moser, M.D., executive director Kansas Heart and Stroke Collaborative. “It is our hope that the Redivus application will become a tool needed for rural health providers to utilize the right care at the right time.”
For rural facilities, which may not treat Code Blue cases regularly, Redivus Health’s tool can serve as a trusted supplement for their teams.
“There is also a need to facilitate communication between facilities, and this app enables that. We have selected Redivus as an application to meet our goal of improving patient care across the continuum,” said Terry Siek, vice president of patient care and chief nursing officer at HaysMed, part of the University of Kansas Health System.
The partnership is an expansion of a pilot program that launched in April. Early response was so positive that officials decided to make Redivus Health’s subscription service more widely available. The University of Kansas Health System is telling its members first, but the partnership is open to all Kansas health providers.
“We are hearing great stories from the rural hospitals and EMS providers,” said Dr. Jeff Dunn, Redivus Health founder and CEO. “They report an increase in confidence when using the Redivus app because they know it provides the evidence-based guidelines for proper care, and they value the automated documentation for hospital records.”
The expansion caps a big year for Redivus Health, which received an honorable mention in the Fast Company Innovation by Design 2017 awards and won “Best in Show” honors in the Fierce Innovation Awards, a national health care competition.
