DAWN AC Anticoagulation Therapy Management Software will transform your anticoagulation service. It improves patient safety and care AND dramatically improves productivity.
DAWN AC Anticoagulation Therapy Management Software is the global market leader for managing anticoagulation clinics. DAWN AC provides an efficient and effective way to manage your patients resulting in improved safety and quality of care.
What is DAWN Anticoagulation Therapy Management Software?
DAWN AC is a complete decision support package for the safe and efficient management of patients on VKA agents, such as Warfarin, or Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs).
Our user-friendly software supports the assessment, induction, maintenance dosing, review and bridging of VKA patients. Medication specific proformas support DOAC initiation and follow-ups, while clinically validated algorithms support dosing decisions.
DAWN AC’s innovative population management capability means patients can be easily identified by status and you can quickly create workflows, action lists and priorities within the software, configured to suit your specific criteria.
DAWN AC provides the full patient picture on one easy to view screen. The patient’s full AC dataset can be viewed with any additional risk factors or complications easily identified. The patient screen and population management capabilities of the software reduces the time spent searching for information to boost productivity.
For VKA anticoagulant patients, DAWN AC’s clinically validated dosing algorithm indicates when the healthcare professional should intervene. The DAWN AC dosing algorithm is finely tuned to only suggest dose and next test date changes in the right scenarios.
This prevents healthcare professionals over reacting to variations and intervening unnecessarily which can result in poorer percentage Time in Range and/or Variance Growth Rate (VGR) results, more patient concern and wasted resources.
Get the full patient picture on one easy to view screen.
Additional risk factors or complications are easily identified.
Dramatically reduce the time spent searching for information.
Patients easily identified by status.
Clinically validated algorithms support dosing decisions.
Highly configurable software adapted to your criteria and workflows.
DAWN AC can be integrated with all leading EPRs including Epic, Cerner and Allscripts.
Why use DAWN AC Anticoagulation Therapy Management Software?
The DAWN AC patient record screen shows all the key information in one place, including history, treatment plan, percentage time in range, variance growth rate, INR dose and risk class, along with alerts for interacting drugs, patient events and reminders. Colour coded, action focused alerts enable healthcare professionals to quickly review and document decisions or outcomes.
For DOAC patients the record shows a clear summary of the patient’s current dose, summaries of the latest and historic follow ups and a clear picture of the next steps that patient requires.
DAWN AC has hundreds of anticoagulation specific features to reduce mistakes and human error. The optional Vitamin K Antagonist (VKA) dosing algorithms have been proven in multi-centre randomised trials (see reference 1).
The Direct Oral Anticoagulant’s (DOACs) prescribing function has questionnaires to help prevent incorrect dose levels and prevent drug interaction issues.
DAWN AC’s DOAC workflows prevents mis-prescribing by healthcare professionals by identifying changes in renal function, age or weight, indication and significant drug-drug interactions. In a recent paper, 66% of patients using standard workflows where found to have missing data or dosing discrepancies.
DAWN AC makes it easy to identify patients with complications or additional risk factors, such as interacting drugs, historic adverse events or procedures. Subsets of patients by risk class or other criteria can be specified in the software.
Any drugs the patient is taking can be logged on the patient screen along with any relevant interaction for that drug, indicated by a red flag icon.
DAWN AC can be integrated with electronic medical record systems to import patient medication information automatically ensuring healthcare professionals always have the full picture.
Workflows within DAWN AC make it easy to identify key subsets of the patient population monitored in your service. Your work priorities can be effortlessly managed by creating dynamic patient and task lists against your chosen criteria, such as patients with an INR awaiting dose instruction or patients late for INRs or follow ups.
DAWN AC helps manage the dosing of Warfarin, factoring in the tablet sizes available to the patient and can enable Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH) dosing for bridging. Suggested VKA maintenance doses and test intervals are based on a scientifically validated dosing algorithm.
Our software makes it easy to measure results and analyse patient data to help you continually improve the efficiency and safety of your service.
Activities in DAWN AC can be fully audited to show individual user actions. Comprehensive patient records and flexible reporting capabilities makes auditing against guidelines simple and straightforward.
Routine non-clinical administration tasks are automated with DAWN AC saving time and boosting productivity. Non-attendees are flagged and a reminder system ensures no patients or tasks are over-looked.
Patient data can be entered rapidly without the need for multiple forms. Communications, such as letters to patients and GPs are automatically triggered and batch-printed directly from DAWN or shared electronically with the primary care team.
Send email or SMS messages, such as appointment reminders, to patients and contact other healthcare professionals to report patients with missing test results.
The DAWN AC benchmarking service enables you to monitor your quality of care against best practice to rank your anticoagulation service against others based on 33 key measures.
Reporting tools within DAWN AC enable you to access and analyse detailed data to drive improvements.
Our software is easy to use, but we also offer practical help and training materials to get you started. We have decades of experience working with anticoagulation services. If you do get stuck or face a problem, our responsive, friendly support team, based in the UK, are just a phone call or email away.
Using DAWN Anticoagulation Therapy Management Software in your clinic
VKA Maintenance Module
For patients receiving a stable maintenance dose of Warfarin, DAWN AC’s inbuilt, clinically validated, algorithms will review the previous INR and dose history against the latest INR result and suggest the next appropriate dose and test interval.
The DAWN AC dosing algorithm is finely tuned to only suggest dose and next test date changes in the right scenarios. This prevents healthcare professionals over reacting to variations and intervening unnecessarily which can result in poorer percentage Time in Range and/or Variance Growth Rate (VGR) results, along with more patient concern and wasted resources.
Novel/Direct Oral Anticoagulants Modules
DAWN Anticoagulation Therapy Management Software enables you to manage DOAC patients safely and efficiently using structured questionnaires for initiation and follow-up. The questionnaire proformas structure the process outlining all considerations when initiating or following up a DOAC. The questionnaires also offer dosing decision support. Prioritised lists ensure easy tracking and follow up of patients. All key information is integrated into the patient’s treatment plan to give a robust summary of the patient.
Manual and Bridging
During periods of instability patients can automatically, or by clinical decision, be switched to manual dosing. When patients need to be bridged for a surgical procedure Low-molecular-weight heparin (LWMH) dosing can be automatically calculated and blended with Warfarin to enable a specific bridging dosing instruction.
VTE Diagnosis and Assessment Module
DAWN AC electronically documents each important step in the patient care pathway with flowcharts which guide you through established protocols. Questionnaires collect and document important information within DAWN AC, including the patient’s Wells score and particular risk factors to support the vital DVT assessment process.
With DAWN you can report the assessment outcome directly to the patient’s GP or specialist in a single step, saving time and removing the potential for human error.
VKA Induction Module
To carefully manage the initiation period of beginning treatment with Warfarin.
DAWN AC at a glance
- Clear, easy to understand patient records
- Scientifically validated dosing algorithm
- Prioritised and filtered worklists
- Automated routine non-clinical tasks
- Comprehensive reporting and auditing functions
- Integration with other software systems
- Responsive, personalised customer service
With DAWN AC software, your clinic can:
- Improve patient care and safety
- Increase patient adherence to blood monitoring
- Standardise approaches to dosing to remove variability
- Reduce the administration burden of managing patients on long-term therapy
- Boost efficiency and productivity
- Automatically integrate data from other software systems
Integrating DAWN AC
Tightly integrating DAWN Anticoagulation Therapy Management software with your other healthcare software and medical record systems will remove transcription steps and the need for multiple screens to further boost productivity and patient safety.
DAWN AC can be integrated with all leading EPRs including Epic, Cerner and Allscripts.
Integration options include:
- Importing patient demographic data to create and update patient records in DAWN AC.
- Automatically importing INR results, from the laboratory or point of care devices, into the DAWN AC patient record with admission and discharge statuses.
- Updating patient records in the central electronic record system, either as an ‘encounter’ or ‘pushed’ as an electronic document. The document can also be shared electronically with GPs and patients.
- Updating the patient records within DAWN AC with medication data and flagging any medication interactions with the anticoagulant prescribed.
Patient Portal
A patient portal captures patient reported data directly into the DAWN AC patient record, including patient responses to contextual questions ahead of INR dosing decisions, or INR reporting from the patient self-tester. INR dosing information and trends can be shared with the patient on the portal.
Healthcare professionals can create data collection forms in DAWN AC with just a few clicks, before making them available for patients to complete via the portal. Different forms can be created and made available to subsets of the patient population.
Continuous improvement with DAWN Anticoagulation Therapy Management Software
DAWN AC delivers data driven continuous improvement across your service, with real time metrics, extensive reporting capabilities and an international benchmarking service. Used by 150 healthcare organisations worldwide, DAWN Anticoagulation Therapy Management software delivers real results to increase productivity and improve patient safety, outcomes and quality of care.
22%
increased productivity
within 6 months
600-700
patients managed
per healthcare
professional
64%
reduction in patient
non-attendance
27%
decrease in patient
emergency admissions
for adverse events
10%
increase in patient
time in therapeutic range
compared to manual dosing
Reduced
Patient clinic turnaround
time reduced to 5-20
minutes from 45-50 minutes
150
healthcare organisations
use DAWN AC worldwide
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