OneDose Introduces its Live Patient Record
Every patient handoff is an opportunity for important information to be overlooked.
Vital signs are verbally communicated by a first responder. A member of the transport team writes notes on a glove. A flight crew reconstructs what transpired before to their arrival. The complete picture of the patient's care is dispersed throughout records, radios, and memories by the time they arrive at the hospital.
That is altered by the Live Patient Record (LPR).
A real-time data spine that tracks your patient from dispatch to hospital handoff, recording every intervention, medication, and timestamp along the route, is OneDose's newest feature. No PHI (protected health information). No speculation. Just a clear, accessible record of precisely what transpired and when.
The primary goal of the LPR is to ensure that patient transfers are smooth and that no patient care data is lost.
This is how it seems in real life. After arriving on the location, a fire first reaction unit starts treating the situation. The crew doesn't have to start from beginning when an ALS transport unit takes over; instead, they may quickly view every intervention carried out on the scene by scanning a QR code.
The transport crew enters the call well informed, and the initial responders document their actions. Scale that up now. Fire is the first to react. Transport is taken over by ALS. The patient is picked up in the middle of the flight by a critical care flight crew. At last, the patient shows up at the emergency room.
Every team in that chain is operating from the same living record while using the LPR. The following team has the full picture after just one scan.
There has never been this level of continuity across several agencies and handoffs in prehospital care up till this point.
Accurate documentation is one of the most significant improvements brought about by the LPR. The estimated periods of administration used in traditional ePCR procedures are a medic's best estimate entered after the fact. That is replaced by precise timestamps that are recorded in real time by the LPR.
This is more than just an improvement in convenience. The accuracy of prehospital data has fundamentally changed.
Every action recorded in the OneDose app flows into a single, cohesive record after the LPR begins at the time of dispatch. Medication dosages, 12-leads, and procedural notes are all stored in one location and can be searched, shared, and transported with your patient wherever they go.
Additionally, you can view it without being on the OneDose platform. A distinct web link is automatically created for each patient's record each time an LPR is initiated. Anyone can view every intervention in real time from any internet-connected device if you share it with them, including the patient and family, a medical director watching from home, a receiving physician an hour away, and specialists consulting remotely.
Nothing should prevent a patient from receiving the finest care possible, according to OneDose. This entails providing vital information to all those concerned, no matter what. On the OneDose platform, joining an active LPR is as simple as scanning a QR code or searching a list for quick access.
The same data that powers your patient record may also flow straight into the systems that require it, such as ePCR platforms, drug tracking, inventory management, and prehospital alerting systems, because the LPR acts as a central integration point. Many destinations, one record.
The Live Patient Record serves as a link between the patient's experiences and the systems that require information about them. It removes information gaps between agencies, substitutes accuracy for speculation, and guarantees that each patient reaches their ultimate location with an exhaustive record of their care.
About the Author
Ryan Baker
Associate Editor
Ryan Baker is a writer and associate editor with prior experiences in online and print production. Ryan is an associate editor for Firehouse with a master's degree in sciences of communication from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He recently completed a year of teaching Intro to Public Speaking at UW-Whitewater, as part of his graduate program. Ryan acquired his bachelor's degree in journalism in 2023 from UW-Whitewater, and operates currently out of Minneapolis, MN. Baker, also writes freelances for the Ultimate Frisbee Association (UFA) in his free time, while also umpiring baseball for various ages across the Twin Cities Metro Area.

