Paul Tait, Amanda Adams, Jennifer Tieman September 2015

Smart phone apps and GPs: A portable solution for community care

Twitter: @pallcarepharm

32,401

• 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)

11

• Palliative Care • Aged Care • Caregivers • Pain • Fatigue • Home Care • Carers • Dementia

2891 • Health

professional • Palliative care • RAC or home

setting

11

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