The Platform
Standardizing critical care handoffs: clinical intelligence, built from nursing insight.
One ideal handoff, complete and consistent, for every nurse, every shift.
Three tools, one purpose. Organizing, relaying, and evaluating patient information for every nurse, every shift: at change of shift, the mid-shift admission, the unexpected code blue. Apex CritCare automates the organizing and relaying, and grants insight from the first minute. Nurses take well-informed action with the time ACC gives back.
1 · Nurse Handoff
ACC is built to open inside the EHR the hospital already runs, with no separate app and no second login. It organizes the chart into one handoff carrying only what a seasoned nurse needs to know, kept current through the day for whoever takes over care, with each item cited to the note it came from. Nursing handoff, standardized the right way, for every bedside nurse on every unit.
What nurses said
“Often times when I get report, various tests, procedures, and significant events are missed that are important in the big picture of a patient's hospital admission. This tool helps fill those gaps.”
“I really liked how the handoff was cited with all the notes where the information was pulled from.”
2 · Chart Gap
Signal, not noise.
What's documented is easy to find. What isn't is the work. Chart Gap is a second set of eyes on each patient's chart, built for nurses. Before the shift begins, it reviews the chart against published criteria and surfaces the gaps a seasoned nurse would want to address now, not four hours into the shift. Each finding goes to the nurse, who decides how to handle it. It's what makes ACC's handoff stand out.
3 · Charge Handoff
The charge handoff gives the charge nurse a full picture of the unit, current to the shift, for making safe and fair assignments. The updating charge nurses do by hand today is done automatically.
Its key feature is the Patient Load Score (PLS), built by an ICU charge nurse with over a decade at the bedside. It scores every patient on workload, not just acuity, from what's already in the chart, with no forms and no manual scoring. ACC believes balancing assignments on workload is the fairer way to run a unit. The charge nurse still decides.
What nurses said
“I think the acuity scoring system is extremely helpful.”
“I also think the charge report puts an objective aspect to making a fair assignment.”