With Navipract, you can provide complex care more efficiently and better.

Care guidelines are complex—much more so than most workflows encountered in business. They are too complex to remember or execute based solely on experience. For example, an oncologist treating a rare form of cancer will always need to consult the guideline to determine the next treatment step. 

Moreover, guidelines are developed through international collaborations and are continuously adjusted to reflect scientific advancements. However, they become practically applicable only when tailored to local circumstances: medication names, responsible departments, and other local details are essential for ensuring effective care. 

These specific guidelines are typically elaborated on by expensive and scarce nurses and doctors in a text file and are usually distributed as PDF documents by the organization. If there’s a change to the base guideline, the specific guideline must also be updated. If something changes within the organization or in the pharmaceutical market, multiple guidelines may need adjustments. 

Nowadays, we increasingly see guidelines converted into HTML files that can be viewed in a web browser, but in practice, this time-consuming conversion from PDF to HTML does not make working with the texts significantly easier. Maintenance and usage remain complex and time-consuming. 

Navipract replaces text files. 

The documents that doctors currently work with are almost always outdated. When using them, various mistakes can occur, such as incorrectly transcribing or calculating a dosage or medication name. Additionally, healthcare providers spend far too much time searching for and verifying guidelines. The difficulty in finding the correct version of a guideline is a major problem in healthcare organizations with many guidelines, such as hospitals. This is because the files can only be found using manually assigned "tags." 

Navipract is an application developed in collaboration with scientists, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists that converts existing clinical guidelines into structured workflows and offers them digitally. This not only makes them much easier to maintain, but healthcare providers can also follow them much better and more efficiently. Navipract also solves search problems by making titles, full texts, and lists of diagnoses and treatments searchable. 

The result: better collaboration and higher patient safety. 

Wasn’t the entire idea behind treatment guidelines based on the notion of systematically documenting how treatment should proceed and under what conditions to provide better care? Navipract can do what PDF and HTML files cannot. By storing and presenting guidelines in a structured way, it acts as a full-fledged workflow and decision-making system, making it an ideal complement to the Electronic Patient Record (EPD) or Electronic Client Record (ECD) by showing the practical steps a healthcare provider must take to execute a treatment correctly. 

"A navigation system for complex care."

If the guideline is a roadmap, Navipract is the navigation system. Instead of making doctors search through long, confusing, and outdated texts, our navigation system tells them what the next step should be and what conditions must be met to proceed with the treatment. 

Structured storage of treatment guidelines also allows for general and local guidelines to be adjusted independently of one another. The searchability and standardization of the guidelines also make it much simpler to implement the same changes across dozens of guidelines simultaneously, which currently must be done manually in a long list of text files. 

A standardized glossary of medical terms ensures that everyone is on the same page and uses the same terminology. This prevents subtle differences in approach that can create confusion and thus delays in a care process. 

This has a tremendous positive impact on care: 

• Higher quality. Better-maintained and followed guidelines reduce the risk of errors and make treatments more effective. 

• Lower costs. Fewer healthcare professionals tied to desks, less lost time for consultations or searching through guidelines. 

• Less stress. A healthcare professional knows what needs to be done. 

• Lower cognitive load. The focus of a good workflow tool leads to better decisions. 

• Guidelines are always and everywhere available. A healthcare provider can look up guidelines on any mobile device, even in sterile environments like operating rooms. 

• Guidelines are searchable. Navipract’s AI-based search engine makes browsing through folders full of guidelines a thing of the past. 

• Easier knowledge sharing. No more "islands" of knowledge, where guidelines differ from country to country, hospital to hospital, and sometimes even department to department, but rather care teams working with the latest medical knowledge. 

• Better patient safety. Strictly following the guidelines eliminates many risks. 

Benefits at the organizational level: 

Using Navipract at the organizational level, beyond the impact on costs, has many advantages. It starts with freeing up highly qualified personnel: currently, experienced healthcare providers spend time managing and editing guidelines daily. Navipract puts an end to this. 

Another benefit for the organization lies in data collection. Without a good workflow system, it is impossible to measure the extent to which guidelines are actually being followed. This is a serious issue for hospitals that must regularly demonstrate the quality of care provided during audits. 

With data from Navipract, healthcare organizations know exactly which steps providers take and how closely they adhere to the latest version of the guidelines. If things aren’t going well, they can immediately pinpoint the issue and intervene effectively. 

Who is Navipract for? 

Not every form of care requires a tool like Navipract. The development of Navipract began in pediatric oncology. This area of care treats many rare diseases with complicated guidelines developed through intensive international collaboration. Pediatric oncologists have been searching for a good way to work with these guidelines for a long time. 

Thus, Navipract is particularly well-suited for oncological treatments and the management of rare diseases. However, even outside hospitals, such as in mental health services, providers work under significant pressure with complex guidelines. These providers also face high demands for the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of their work. 

Future developments 

Navipract is ready to be implemented in all forms of complex, guideline-driven care. However, we continuously look for functionalities that can further assist healthcare providers. Here are features we would like to add quickly: 

• Community and platform. The more medical professionals contribute to the guidelines in Navipract, the higher the quality and the greater the productivity gains. Therefore, we find it important to get as many users on our platform as possible and to enable these users, across organizational and national borders, to collaborate on guidelines. 

• Access for patients and families. It would be fantastic if patients, clients, or families could also have insight. Many questions that providers currently need to answer revolve around the how, what, and why of certain treatment steps. Access to this information makes patients better informed and fosters trust. 

• Data and AI. A system like Navipract can effectively collect data on how guidelines are used and followed. We can analyze this data with AI and translate it into improvements, as is already done in many other industries. 

• Alerts. More data means we can actively warn doctors, for instance, about steps where complications often occur. This directly improves the quality of care and patient health while reducing overall healthcare costs.