DAWN Safety Monitoring Software used in Rheumatology offers safer, more reliable and efficient  patient management and improved care.

DAWN Safety Monitoring Software supports healthcare professionals to efficiently manage Rheumatology patients safely.

Clearly presented information enables timely and effective clinical decision making to increase patient safety, improve outcomes AND reduce time spent on administration.

Currently, managing your clinics may include completing several cumbersome manual processes, often involving several self-created spreadsheets, Word documents and diary appointments with information about a patient stored in different places across multiple screens.

Routine tasks are time consuming to complete, with the potential for human error and a real danger that some patients requiring clinical intervention may be missed. System inefficiencies are impacting the quality of patient care and adding to the stress and workload of your team.

DAWN Safety Monitoring Software has been developed to better manage the complex administrative burden placed on your Rheumatology department.

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What is DAWN Safety Monitoring Software?

DAWN is a complete clinical software package to improve your Rheumatology service and efficiently manage clinical decisions, co-ordinate care and share information.

The software makes it easy to safely and comprehensively manage patients with chronic inflammatory conditions requiring the use of DMARDs and biologics and track the efficacy of their treatment using disease activity monitoring such as DAS28 and PsARC.

DAWN improves patient safety by saving clinical staff time and reducing the potential for human error. It identifies those patients who require clinical intervention while automating other more routine tasks. Dynamic work-lists automatically identifies patients who are overdue blood monitoring tests and the software can trigger reminders via SMS, email or letter.

DAWN will improve the efficiency and productivity of your Rheumatology service, enabling you to look after more patients and improve their quality of care, ultimately resulting in reduced emergency hospital admissions.

DAWN Safety Monitoring Software will enable you to run an efficient and safer Rheumatology service.

  • DAWN automatically prioritises abnormal blood monitoring results and identifies patients with blood monitoring results that are unacceptable or borderline, according to the guidelines set by the clinical team. (Parameters can be customised for individual patients and/or based on patient characteristics, such as gender, for example.)
  • Automated processes review acceptable results.
  • DAWN enables the actions taken by the clinical team, in response to abnormal blood monitoring results, to be documented and recorded, with a clear, expedited process for review by senior team members.
  • Reminders to get a blood test are automatically sent to patients.
  • DAWN identifies and triggers contact with patients who are overdue blood monitoring tests.
  • DAWN co-ordinates DMARD shared care tasks and easily identifies those patients ready to move to monitoring by their primary care team.
  • Communications about the shared care of patients to the primary care team are effortlessly created.
  • Patients undergoing monitoring by primary care teams are easily and quickly identified.
  • Test results, history and full context can be easily viewed in the patient record to aid the provision of specialist advice and support to primary care teams.
  • Should monitoring return to the specialist team, the full patient history is immediately available in their DAWN record.
  • DAWN makes it easy to track the renewal dates for prescriptions with home care companies.
  • The prescription process and status, from creation and departmental signature to internal or external pharmacy fulfilment, is tracked and documented to provide the best service for patients.
  • DAWN software provides an electronic proforma to accurately structure and document the pre-prescribing checks needed before prescribing a biologic therapy.
  • The outcome of the checks can be easily shared in the electronic patient record, removing the need for manual administration tasks, such as the printing or scanning of documents.
  • Historic proformas and records are easily accessed and can be quickly audited.
  • DAWN provides quick and easy access to the disease calculators you need, including DAS28, BASDAI, BASFI and PSARC.
  • Patient disease activity scores can be documented and the detail, along with outcomes of previous assessments, can be accessed all in one place.
  • Get the full patient picture instantly with current and historic medication, dosing and monitoring data available all in one place.
  • DAWN enables healthcare professionals to clearly document non routine current and historic patient contact information all in one place.
  • Structured notes enable consistent updating processes for all users.
  • Reminders or follow up tasks for patients can be quickly set, and a simple workflow process enables all users to see outstanding tasks.
  • DAWN enables the healthcare team to quickly document any adverse medication side effects, events or reasons for ceasing a medication, providing a full patient context.
  • Historic adverse event data can also be accessed across the patient population within a particular timeframe.
  • DAWN Rheumatology software enables healthcare professionals to create bespoke reports against the patient population to provide the insights, audit data and other statistics needed to drive improvement.
  • Using DAWN insights your team can easily manage improvement projects and provide key research data, for example, for diagnosis medications and outcomes.
Want a simpler, safer way to monitor your Rheumatology patients’ blood test results?

Request a free, no obligation online demonstration of DAWN software.

Questionnaires and calculators

DAWN makes patient outcome auditing simpler, providing customised questionnaires and disease activity scores. Patient satisfaction or patient reported outcome measure surveys can also be produced and managed in the software.

Data held in the patient record can be merged into the healthcare questionnaire to save time and reduce human transcription errors.

Calculated scores can incorporate simple equations for quick and easy completion. All completed questionnaires, calculated scores and key metrics can be viewed in the patient record for full traceability and visibility.

Benefits of DAWN Safety Monitoring Software

  • Dramatically reduce the administration burden in your clinic.
  • Provide an improved and consistent level of care and service to your patients.
  • Get the full patient picture with medication, dosing and monitoring data found in one place.
  • Access easy to follow workflows and task reminders.
  • Focus attention on the most important tasks and those patients requiring clinical interventions.
  • Improve communication and shared care with primary care teams.
  • Harness patient population data to drive improvement.

DAWN 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
  • Responsive, personalised customer service
  • Data automatically integrated from other software systems

Client Testimonials

"Excellent software and service."
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
"DAWN staff have always been excellent in responding to any questions."
Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
"DAWN has greatly improved the efficiency of our prescription management proceses however so has saved us many hours of time in other aspects of our work - calling patients, chasing bloods etc… not to mention we have a much safer and robust way of managing our patient blood test results."
Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo
"HL7 guys are really impressed by the input from 4S. In the past they have none or incorrect specification documents and generally found the implementation of HL7 interfaces a bit of a nightmare. They were happy to say this was not the case with us and want to thank us for the quality of our documentation and speedy responses."
Beaumont Hospital
"You have an excellent team, buy them a lot of cakes immediately (I'm serious)."
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital logo
"Using DAWN has led to an improved service, increased safety and a more streamlined approach to monitoring our patients."
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
"Always quick and helpful with any requests."
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton
"With DAWN, improved high risk medication monitoring is second to none. We have clear piloted evidence to show its efficacy, especially in improving the monitoring of non-compliant patients."
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust logo
"4S DAWN have been very helpful in developing an electronic questionnaire for DAWN that will help us manage alerts and identify adverse drug events. This data will enable the development of safer and more efficient monitoring protocols for patients with diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis."
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
"DAWN allows the management of my patients efficiently and easily."
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
"Always helped by polite, informed support staff."
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
"The support team at DAWN are excellent. I've always found they provide speedy responses. Always quick and helpful with any requests."
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
"I'm a huge DAWN advocate!! It's been brilliant for us here at MBHT."
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
"We had 33 patients that were previously managed in 20 hours. With the DAWN system, this has reduced to 4 hours. We are now able to increase patient numbers and bring additional patient cohorts onto the DAWN system."
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust