• Why is it better than paper cards?

    Unlike paper, the application can give voice to patient requests, collect feedback, provide comparative and aggregate statistics. You will have complete analytics, you will be able to monitor the dynamics of patient responses through the app, the most frequent requests, the activity of using the doctor’s visits program, how long it takes the medical staff to communicate with a patient and other parameters.

  • Why is DeCa better than competitors?

    Currently on the market of AAC – systems (alternative and augmentative communication systems) are mainly systems for people with cognitive and speech impairments, and not for bedridden patients. These solutions are best suited to the rehabilitation and education of more active patients with cognitive and speech disabilities and contain a large set of pictograms, cards or phrases. Many of these applications only work on iOS devices, which are much more expensive for a hospital than Android devices. Direct competitors in terms of functionality are the French company Tobii Dynavox and the American Voxello, however, their solutions are not cheap.

  • It is very difficult to work with patients who cannot communicate, it puts an additional burden on the nurses, who already have a lot of work to do.

    According to research by DeCa Hospital, there are 3 to 5 patients for just one nurse who need to be seen every 1 to 2 hours. Approximately 3 minutes of time is spent communicating with patients unable to speak via pantomime or by intuition, showing cards, and up to 6 minutes for patients writing paper notes. With the application, the communication between nurse and patient lasts 33 seconds and there is no need to guess, because the most frequently asked questions of patients have already been analyzed by resuscitation experts and collected in the application. The patient only has to press a button. The app saves nurses time for guesswork, which means it makes work easier instead of more complicated.

  • Why Android and not iOS?

    The program is specifically designed for Android, because tablets with this operating system cost around 150 USD, and the price of an IOS tablet starts at 1000 USD, which is a huge difference for a hospital. A simple tablet is enough to run the application.

  • How will this help the hospital make money or save money?

    Since the application saves time for medical staff, the saved minutes and hours can be spent by nurses on better patient care and not on pantomimes and guesswork. Using this streamlined communication system will reduce burnout of medical staff. Your nurses will work more efficiently and less tiringly. We’re doing a comparative study right now, so more accurate data will come later. Furthermore, the possibility of comfortable communication is important for patients who are unable to speak. Patients who used the application [2] are less susceptible to delirium and cognitive impairment, in general, recover faster and are discharged from the intensive care unit faster. In this way your hospital performance will improve, as will the turnover of beds in the ward.