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NEXADIA® mobile companion
A new generation of intelligent dialysis systems can simplify treatments for medical and nursing staff. Above all, the NEXADIA® mobile companion, which makes patient data available for mobile devices, is designed to make care easier.
Lecturer Radovan Vasko, MD, is sitting in the large conference room on the second floor when his phone rings. He gently murmurs “just a moment, please,” pulls the phone from his pocket, and answers the nurse’s call. All this happens in a single, routine movement - so quickly, that the short melody of the ring tone has already fallen silent before it finished. Almost as quickly, Dr. Vasko pulls the white tablet out of his pocket to take a look at the NEXADIA® mobile companion. Earlier in the morning, a dialysis patient’s blood pressure was elevated. So, Dr. Vasko sent a message to the nurse in charge to please measure the patient’s blood pressure again in twenty minutes, and once his message is highlighted in green, he can directly see that it has been read and confirmed by the nurse.
Dr. Vasko is the senior physician at the B. Braun via medis Renal Care Centre in Bad Kissingen. The Centre just opened in 2020 and offers dialysis, as well as being an outpatient clinic for the early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of kidney diseases. In addition, since November 2021, it has been the first Centre in Germany to use the NEXADIA mobile companion: a web-based application that enables dialysis patients’ health data to be accessed from the healthcare staff after logging in on mobile devices. “As an attending physician, the mobile companion allows me to be more actively involved in ongoing therapy,” says Dr. Vasko.
The processes have not only improved for him as the attending physician, but also for the entire team.
The B. Braun via medis Renal Care Centre in Bad Kissingen uses digital technology - including, most recently, the NEXADIA mobile companion.
“Communication can work better. Because I'm more actively involved now, the younger nurses in particular can learn more quickly and can gain an understanding of which parameters are most relevant to the therapy.”
In addition, the NEXADIA® mobile companion makes it possible to work largely paperless, which helps to reduce the administrative workload of nursing staff. Nowhere is this more evident than in the photo documentation of the fistula, which is literally the patient’s lifeline. A continuous photo documentation of the fistula allows a visual record of the fistula’s condition. But in most renal care centres, this requires nurses to handle a digital camera, match the appropriate photo and manually transfer it to a patient data management system.
Radovan Vasko, MD, has already been working with the NEXADIA Mobile Companion for several months.
With the NEXADIA® mobile companion, documentation can take place in a matter of seconds. The application can be used to access the camera of the mobile device and store the photo of the fistula directly in the electronic patient record in the NEXADIA® Expert.
Just a matter of seconds now: fistula documentation for a patient.
“Of all the features, it's the simplified documentation that excites many of our customers the most.”
Christine Poullaquec, who works as a nurse at the Centre de Néphrologie et de Dialyse d'Armorique in Brest, France, confirms this. “For me, the design and availability of the data had a real wow effect,” Poullaquec says. “Even in our case, the fistula was rarely photo-documented before, because the transfer to the NEXADIA® Expert was complex.”
In addition to improved photo documentation for fistula surveillance, the mobile companion can also help nurses and physicians to advise patients during treatment. Previously, protocols were printed out to do this, and filled out in a time-consuming manner. With the mobile companion, this data can now be conveniently accessed on the mobile device. “This has made it much easier for us to spend time with patients,” Poullaquec says. An impression that Dr. Vasko confirms.
The NEXADIA mobile companion enables access to patient data.
The mobile companion not only collects data from the currently running therapy, but also allows access to past sessions - a wealth of data that is also automatically processed and visualised. “This allows for much more interactive patient engagement,” Dr. Vasko says. If, for example, there are fluctuations in blood values or weight, the patient can be shown on the mobile device where the problem is, with the help of dynamic trend diagrams. “The clear presentation can make our advice more convincing,” says Dr. Vasko.
The mobile companion can be seamlessly integrated into existing B. Braun NEXADIA setups.
“Some nurses who have been using pen and paper for thirty or forty years were a little sceptical at first,” Dr. Vasko says. Their concern was accidentally changing important settings with the mobile device during dialysis treatment. “But we were able to reassure them, because that’s not possible with the mobile companion,” says Dr. Vasko. And Benjamin Olson adds, “Because we’re in the business of sensitive health data, we’ve taken great care to ensure data security.”
In the current version, the mobile companion is a “read only application”. This means that it is not able to make its own entries in the database, it just displays the data provided by NEXADIA® monitor and NEXADIA® expert. Protecting patient data is a top priority. To help prevent any kind of unauthorised access to patient data, you can only log in to the mobile companion using authenticated devices. In addition, a NEXADIA® administrator controls whether and to what extent access rights exist. Finally, the license level controls who and how many employees can log in to the mobile companion.
With the help of attractively prepared diagrams, patients can be given comprehensive advice on their therapy.
So far, the mobile companion is already in use in France, Austria and Germany, with launches also underway in Spain, Sweden, and Malaysia. Singapore will follow soon. Plans for expanding the functions are also already underway: visualisation of the data streams from the dialysate concentrate mixing device ECOMix Revolution and water treatment system AQUAboss® or AQUAbase® nX will be available in the mobile companion before the end of this year. The expansion of write functions is also in the concrete planning stage, taking regulatory requirements into account.
The medium-term goal: to create an innovative, browser-based technology platform that helps to enable customers around the world to cost-effectively and agilely optimise processes in their dialysis centres. “With our digital solutions, we want to support dialysis centers so they can take care of what really matters at the end of the day,” says Benjamin Olson. “Namely, helping to improve care for their patients.”
Benjamin Olson manages the launch and further development of the NEXADIA® mobile companion.
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