Post-ICU is the only digital diary that offers advanced features to help hospitals optimize post-ICU care and recovery
A digital ICU diary opens up possibilities that were, up until now, unfeasible.
For example, Post-ICU offers more functionality than a paper alternative.
Post-ICU uses a sophisticated and highly secure log-in portal.
Numerous safeguards are in place to ensure that a diary is only accessible to the right people.
Some hospitals are eligible for a Single-Sign-On (SSO) service. This can enhance the experience with the digital diary for healthcare professionals.
Invite multiple writers and readers to one diary. No matter where, no matter when. Post-ICU is available and up to date 24/7.
Inviting someone to your Post-ICU diary is as easy as clicking a button.
Having more than one person write in the diary ensures that the patient can later review what happened to them from multiple perspectives.
Never wonder about what you can write about again. Post-ICU offers many writing suggestions to help you.
There are separate writing prompts available for family members, friends and healthcare professionals.
Our digital diary will even offer you different writing suggestions depending on the situation of the ICU patient.
The patient is always the owner of their digital diary. If they (temporarily) are unable to manage their diary, their legal guardian takes over.
They can arrange permissions for reading diary entries. Not comfortable with ICU personnel reading your entries? Then switch it off with ease.
We do recommend enabling healthcare workers to read entries, as we have seen this benefits communication and engagement tremendously.
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Post-ICU is currently the only digital ICU diary on the market.
Digital has a number of benefits over paper diaries. Most importantly, a digital ICU diary means that multiple people can journal simultaneously about the occurrences on the ICU. No matter the place, or the time zone of the writer. It also means that when the patient wakes up, they get to read about their experiences from multiple perspectives (ICU personnel, family, friends), allowing them to put the puzzle pieces together more easily.
Additionally, Post-ICU is private and secure. Our documents, processes and the application itself all comply with standard EU hospital security, legal and privacy practice. All data that is entered in Post-ICU’s digital diary is saved on US-based Google servers, and maintained by an ISO27001-certified hosting partner.
Finally, general journaling apps are not integrated into the hospital’s protocols and do not allow for any collaboration between ICU caregivers and family members of patients.
Our team does not just tell you how to integrate the digital diary into your existing protocols. We go a step further and educate your ICU personnel about Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and person-centered care. Because our mission is to come together to fight PICS.
Our implementation service is more than just getting the technicalities right. We offer:
We also believe in the value of education, which is why our implementation service includes:
Hospitals in Europe
Average number of entries per journal
Implementing an innovative solution in your hospital may seem daunting.
How long will this take, and how much valuable time will this take from my staff?
Using standardized and compliant templates, a minimal burden is placed on your staff of approximately 20 hrs.
Step 1
Legal & privacy
terms and conditions
Preparation phase
Step 2
Signing Agreement
Sign
Step 3
Setting up IT and access
Implementing the Diary
Step 4
Embedding in the ICU work processes
Embedding
Step 5
Promotion, training and introduction (launch)
Training
Launch
Evaluation
Research
“With a digital ICU diary, things like consent, privacy, and ownership can be regulated much more professionally.
Even a scenario like ‘what to do in case of death’ is something we have never actually heard of as a problem.
On the contrary, many families use the Post-ICU diary to help with mourning or even read from it during a funeral.
By arranging in the user agreement that diaries can be deleted at any time (Right to Erasure, better known as the ‘Right to be Forgotten’, a GDPR directive), that aspect can also be well controlled.”
Post-ICU is trusted by +25 Hospitals in Europe