UltraCare/The ICU Journey
Product flow · Part 1 of 2
Not another EMR.
UltraCare is the operational workspace for the entire ICU stay, built on the natural cognitive workflow of an intensivist. From admission to discharge, every screen answers exactly one clinical question.
The design law
Every screen answers one clinical question.
If a screen cannot answer its question clearly, it gets redesigned. No feature exists without serving one of these seven. This law governs everything we build.
Admission
Who is this patient?
Assessment
What is actually happening?
Management Plan
What is our strategy?
Daily Rounds
What changed today?
Handover
What must the next doctor know?
Risk
Who is deteriorating?
Discharge
Can this patient safely leave the ICU?
The journey
One patient. One stay. One workspace.
The product follows the ICU stay itself. Data is captured once, interpreted once, and carried forward, shift after shift, until the patient safely leaves.
"Who is this patient?"
Capture everything needed to safely begin ICU care.
Purely structured data collection. Nothing has been interpreted yet.
"What is actually happening?"
Convert raw data into structured clinical understanding.
UltraCare generates the assessment automatically, including ranked differential diagnoses for every active problem. The doctor reviews, edits and approves. AI drafts, the intensivist decides.
"What is our overall strategy?"
Create the long term treatment roadmap. The blueprint.
Unlike daily rounds, this plan does not change every shift. It changes only when the patient's direction changes.
"What changed today, and what do I do now?"
The primary operational workspace. Doctors live here.
Every round follows the same ten step workflow, from five second situational awareness to a signed progress note.
"What does the next doctor absolutely need to know?"
Safe transfer of responsibility, every single shift.
UltraCare generates a structured I-PASS handover. The outgoing doctor edits and approves. The receiving doctor reads, acknowledges and authenticates. The round then locks. Nothing changes until the next authenticated shift.
"Is this patient becoming unsafe?"
Not a step. A layer. It runs in parallel from admission to discharge, with zero documentation burden, watching every trend and flagging deterioration before it becomes clinically obvious.
"Can this patient safely leave the ICU?"
A structured exit, not a judgement call.
A readiness checklist closes the loop on the stay.
Continue
The middle of the journey is not a line. It is a loop.
Part 2 shows the engine of daily use: the shift loop, the anatomy of a round, and what it means for your team.