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Paul Tait, Amanda Adams, Jennifer Tieman September 2015
Smart phone apps and GPs: A portable solution for community care
Twitter: @pallcarepharm
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• Palliative Care • Aged Care • Caregivers • Pain • Fatigue • Home Care • Carers • Dementia
2891 • palliative care
focus • support
patient care within a RAC or home environment
• Health professionals (e.g. GP)
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• Palliative Care • Aged Care • Caregivers • Pain • Fatigue • Home Care • Carers • Dementia
2891 • Health
professional • Palliative care • RAC or home
setting
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Aim
Guide GPs in a best
practice approach in support of older
palliative patients and their families
Governence De
cisio
n As
sist
CareSearch/ Flinders
University
Guidance &Technological Innovation (GATI) Project
GATI Project Team Smartphone App Working Group
GATI Advisory Group Aged and Community Services Australia
(ACSA)
Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine (ANZSPM)
Austin Health / Respecting Patient Choices (RPC)
Leading Aged Services Australia (LASA)
Palliative Care Australia (PCA)
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
University of Queensland (UQ) / Blue Care Research and Practice Development Centre
Defining the Content
• GATI Project Team prepared a series of content options
• Smartphone App Working Group reviewed each option – GPs needed direct clinical content with an emphasis
on prescribing assistance.
• Clinical Processes Framework
– Palliative Care GP Education training (Decision Assist)
Clinical Processes Framework
Would you be surprised if this patient died in the next 6 to 12 months?
Yes
Advance care planning
No
Case conferencing
Terminal care management
plan
Limits
• PA toolkit intended for use in a residential aged care setting – link the medicines with their related PBS criteria; – Include a home care checklist
App Design • Functional specification
– GATI project team – IT developer – Graphic designer
• Device agnostic • Responsive design
Review And Usability Testing
Testing of design, layout and usability
Feedback reviewed
Recommendations made
Proofing review and functional movement analysis
palliAGED app loaded to stores and launched
Marketing
Downloads
0
250
500
750
1000
May-15 Jun-15 Jul-15
Num
ber o
f Dow
nloa
ds
Date (Months)
Google Play Store iTunes Store Windows Store
Future Considerations
Modifications: • Development of an
offline version • Inclusion of a
community medications list; and
• Inclusion of MBS items for ACP related activity
Sustainability: • Review of the content
in April 2016
Conclusion
• GPs - central role in planning and providing for care of community based patients
• The palliAGED app provides GPs clinical support at the bedside
• Explore the role of apps in future projects to extend their reach and distribution
Paul Tait, Amanda Adams, Jennifer Tieman September 2015
Smart phone apps and GPs: A portable solution for community care
Twitter: @pallcarepharm