Overview
BioEthx™ has conducted research into private sector practices in documenting and managing the progression of bioethics cases in the clinical setting. BioEthx staff has long been involved in the development of software designed to assist ethicists and ethics committees in managing clinical and organizational ethics cases. Accumulated expertise and evolving software delivery methods have now come together to produce the first publicly-available software system dedicated to the task of healthcare ethics consult.
The end result is the BioEthx online service for consult management. The web-based service is designed to support the management of ethics consults from initial event and information capture through resolution and follow-up evaluation. It provides an effective and easy-to-use tool for managing the workflow of ethics consults in accordance with established procedures and to fully document case history and the analytical process undertaken to produce the best possible outcome.
Features
The BioEthx™ consult management service provides a centralized repository for recording all of the important information related to an ethics consult request and the complete process carried out to achieve the most appropriate outcome.
With minimal training, hospital and clinic staff can create a record of an expressed concern or a request for action. Thereafter, the system becomes a valuable tool to guide the workflow required to properly handle the issue, supporting the inclusion of additional specialists and promoting collaboration among consult team members to work towards an optimal outcome.
BioEthx is a complete tool that helps healthcare organizations to ensure that appropriate ethics protocols needed to provide quality healthcare and mitigate risks are applied to both clinical and organizational ethics cases.