Decision support for healthcare workers in remote locations

Odyssey RemoteAssess offers clinical decision support designed specifically for remote locations, ensuring the best possible care and advice for people worldwide who lack access to a fully trained doctor or nurse.
By supporting those with responsibility for health and safety in these environments, Odyssey RemoteAssess ensures rapid, safe assessment and advice despite the remote nature of a location.

Clinical Support

• Guides a thorough assessment of all common symptoms – from the potentially minor injury to the immediately life-threatening illness

• Automatically assesses the significance of the assessed symptoms and observations, and recommends appropriate action

• Ensures consistent, evidence-based care and treatment advice

• Creates full, contemporaneous documentation of the patient’s condition and needs

• Supports communication of detailed medical information that can be transmitted to health professionals anywhere in the world, as required

• Advice is always appropriate and up to date, ensuring best possible care and health at all times

• Region and setting-specific content ensures relevance to local needs

Meets the priorities of remote locations

• Ensures access to the best possible care

• Covers injuries as well as medical conditions
• Effective record of all conditions – to help identify trends and risks

• Avoidance of unnecessary transport from remote location

• Supports management of illnesses and injuries that may require higher level intervention e.g. pneumonia, malaria, TB, fractures

• Up-skills and supports on-going education and development of personnel who have responsibility for health and safety

Technology

• Touchscreen technology for ease of use, totally independent of network connectivity

• Highly intuitive, requires very little training or technical support

• Responses are selected rather than typed, for faster assessments

• Supplied on rugged tablet and mobile devices

• Available online and offline (“occasionally connected”) ensuring 24/7 availability

• Functionality to assess in one language and output in another