Real-time reporting of changes in patient status during transport

Purpose

1.1. Enable seamless, real-time updates on patient status during air transport for medical teams, hospitals, and coordinators.
1.2. Ensure accurate, timestamped documentation of vital signs, interventions, and changes in condition, enhancing clinical decision support and handoff efficiency.
1.3. Improve patient outcomes through rapid escalation protocols and pre-arrival readiness in receiving facilities.
1.4. Support compliance with regulatory standards for patient care documentation and communication reliability.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Entry, modification, or update of patient vital signs in in-transit EHR or digital forms.
2.2. Manual notification by flight medical crew for critical status changes (e.g., code blue, intubation, intervention).
2.3. Data received from Bluetooth/IoT-connected medical devices (monitors, ventilators, infusion pumps).
2.4. Scheduled status check-in intervals (e.g., every 5 minutes) or location-based triggers (geofencing events).

Platform Variants

3.1. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: SMS API; Configure to send automated text updates to on-call physician phones upon new status entry.
3.2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Transactional Email API; Trigger templated emails to triage nurses when critical vitals are recorded.
3.3. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks; Push real-time alert messages to #transport-updates channel for all stakeholders.
3.4. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Connector/Webhook API; Post condition changes in pre-assigned Teams for ER staff preparation.
3.5. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Incident Creation API; Log critical care events and timestamped updates as incident records.
3.6. Salesforce Health Cloud
• Feature/Setting: REST API/Case Update; Auto-update patient cases with new transport observations.
3.7. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Sheets API; Append live vitals/status logs to shared sheet accessible to medical directors.
3.8. Tableau
• Feature/Setting: Web Data Connector; Stream incoming data for near real-time dashboard visualization.
3.9. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Events API v2; Trigger critical escalation alerts if certain thresholds are crossed.
3.10. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Built-in connectors; Build flows to notify and document patient changes in SharePoint/EHRs.
3.11. Epic EHR
• Feature/Setting: FHIR API; Auto-import new status records directly into patient charts.
3.12. Cerner Millennium
• Feature/Setting: HealtheIntent API; Transfer real-time transport data into longitudinal records.
3.13. Aircall
• Feature/Setting: Call Trigger API; Notify dispatch via automated call when critical change detected.
3.14. Zoom
• Feature/Setting: Meeting/Webinar API; Initiate urgent consultation instantly when flagged by transport crew.
3.15. AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service)
• Feature/Setting: Publish API; Broadcast updates to relevant hospital subscriber endpoints.
3.16. Firebase Cloud Messaging
• Feature/Setting: Notifications API; Push updates to custom mobile crew/receiving apps instantly.
3.17. DocuSign
• Feature/Setting: Envelope API; Route updated consent forms/incident reports when new events logged.
3.18. Jira
• Feature/Setting: Create Issue API; Record patient status events as issues for review/audit.
3.19. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Items API; Log patient transport task updates for operations tracking.
3.20. Azure Logic Apps
• Feature/Setting: Workflow connector; Build automated multi-step flows from status changes to EHR and alerting systems.
3.21. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Zap trigger/action; Orchestrate multi-platform notification and documentation from a single trigger event.
3.22. IBM Watson Health
• Feature/Setting: Integration API; Feed near real-time patient data for analytics and predictive alerts.

Benefits

4.1. Accelerates time-to-intervention by keeping all clinical stakeholders instantly updated.
4.2. Reduces manual errors, ensuring end-to-end traceability and accountability of care.
4.3. Enhances regulatory compliance and patient safety through granular, automated documentation.
4.4. Streamlines communication between air crews and hospital teams, reducing cognitive load and delays.
4.5. Provides data for real-time dashboards and analytics for quality improvement and incident review.