Notes.From the counter and the clinic.
Writing on clinical practice, medicines, and what we're learning while building Terralis — for the people who make the call.
Start herePart 1 of 4Clinical practice · 2 min read
Healthcare changed. Its software didn't.
Patients now arrive with more conditions, more medicines and longer histories. Most healthcare software was built to record what happened — not to help with the decision in front of you.
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- 1Patients are living longer, with several conditions and several medicines at once.
- 2Most clinical software was built to record care, not to support the decision being made.
- 3The information usually exists. Connecting it to this patient, right now, is the hard part.
All notes.
Part 2 of 4Clinical practice · 2 min read
You were never meant to remember all of this
Doctors, pharmacists and nurses are asked to recall an impossible amount of clinical knowledge, for every patient, all day. Memory is not a safety strategy.
ReadPart 3 of 4Medicines, explained · 2 min read
What does this medicine mean for this patient?
The same medicine can be routine for one person and risky for the next. A system that helps with clinical decisions has to connect what it knows about a drug to the person taking it.
ReadPart 4 of 4Building Terralis · 2 min read
The system holds the knowledge. You make the call.
What healthcare software should do — and what it should never do. Why we're building Terralis as a different kind of system, not another layer on top of the old ones.
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