Use cases · Nursing home · Hospital ward · Home follow-up
Falls risk screening
Falls often follow warning signs nobody pulled together. Older adults, or a caregiver on their behalf, answer the falls risk questions on admission to a nursing home or ward, or at home, and again at regular intervals. The team gets each person's risk factors and who needs a medicine review, physiotherapy or home changes.
At a glance
- Does
- Information gathering, Summarisation
- Setting
- Nursing home, Hospital ward, Home follow-up
- Specialty
- Geriatrics
- Who
- Patient-facing
Also searched as
falls prevention · falls risk assessment · fall prevention in care homes
Questions
What does TESSA do in falls risk screening?
Falls often follow warning signs nobody pulled together. Older adults, or a caregiver on their behalf, answer the falls risk questions on admission to a nursing home or ward, or at home, and again at regular intervals. The team gets each person's risk factors and who needs a medicine review, physiotherapy or home changes. It does this through information gathering, summarisation.
Does TESSA diagnose the patient?
No, TESSA never gives a patient a diagnosis. It collects and collates the information the patient provides, asks probing questions and performs risk assessment; a clinician reviews the summary and decides, and no diagnosis, summary or management plan reaches the patient until the clinician signs.
What happens if the patient mentions a warning sign?
Warning or worrying signs that require immediate attention or action go straight to the care team without alarming the patient. For time-critical presentations, TESSA supports the clinician only and is not currently intended for patient use.
How is patient information protected?
The patient surface runs on session codes, not names, and each institution's data is kept apart with a full audit trail. Our own Anonesia by TINYHealth is a proprietary software and code that removes PIIs, e.g. names, ID numbers and contact details from text before it reaches an AI model.
How do we start with this use case?
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