DS Aware™

DS Aware™

DS Aware™  is a secure web-based application and database for storage and analysis of HDA-OR2 cardiovascular and blood pressure case data.

It is intended for anesthesiologists, CRNAs, hospital managers and others who require statistical analysis, quality metrics and in-depth retrospective analysis on their patient populations undergoing anesthesia in the OR.

DS Aware™ is supplied as a companion web app to the point of care HDA-OR2 blood pressure target assist software.

DS AwareTM Features

  • Database of cases automatically uploaded from HDA
  • Unique very high resolution data (100 samples/heart beat)
  • Quality assured, artefact free
  • Easy-to-use dashboard for statistical analysis, quality metrics and drill-down to individual cases
  • Blood pressure & cardiovascular analytics
  • Key risk metrics of complications & mortality
  • Fully managed service, hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Supports the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI) recommended intraoperative hypotension metric (ePreop31)
  • Hospital cost analysis

Benefits of DS AwareTM

  • Measure quality & cost performance, inc AQI metric
  • In-depth case review providing insights into underlying causes of cardiovascular instability & hypotension
  • Assess impact on postoperative complication rates and healthcare resource utilization
  • Identify areas of clinical quality improvement (CQI)

Colour-coded visualisation

  • Mean arterial pressure (MAP) duration displayed in time bands
  • Intra-operative hypotension (IOH) percentage by surgery type

Individual case review

  • Cumulative MAP time display
  • Target MAP
  • Entire procedure logged
  • Treatment markers logged and displayed
  • Cardiac Output/Heart Rate/Systemic Vascular Resistance review

Reports can be filtered on any  parameter such as:

  • Surgery type
  • Intra-operative hypotension (IOH) cumulative minutes
  • Time spent in selected blood pressure bands
  • Age
  • BMI

Cybersecurity

  • Secure web hosting 
  • Individual user authentication
  • Data encrypted at rest and in transit
  • All access requests logged for audit trail
  • Data processed is currently non-PHI
  • All customer account databases stored separately ensuring only your institution’s data is accessed
  • Secure data back-up services