Our CEO in an interview with "Innovation Healthcare"

07/04/2023

"Our calculator avoids 77 per cent of dosing errors in pediatrics" - under this title you will find an interesting interview [in German] with our CEO in the latest issue of "Innovation Healthcare".

PEDeus is winner of the Viktor Award

03/31/2023

We are the proud winners of the Viktor Award in the Newcomer (Startup) category. We thank the jury, all the people who voted for us, the two organisers - Medinside and Santémedia - and everyone who contributed to the success of PEDeus! The award stands for patient safety, digitalisation and paediatric medicine! Congratulations to all the other winners: Christoph Berger, Enea Martinelli, Adrian Schmitter and Robert Hubmann!

Nomination of PEDeus for the Viktor Award

03/03/2023

Our start-up PEDeus is nominated for the Viktor Award - also known as the "Oscar of Swiss healthcare". With just two clicks you can give us your vote and support our vision of safe medication for children. Thank you in advance!

Federal Quality Committee shares our vision

02/03/2023

The Federal Quality Committee is supporting us with CHF 1.2 million over the next two years to further develop PEDeDose for you and other healthcare professionals with the aim of increasing medication safety for children. We will implement new features, notably in relation to dose adjustment in renal failure and the preparation and administration of parenteral drugs. We also plan to develop an app for emergency situations and to supplement the dosages in PEDeDose with data from SwissPedDose.

PEDeDose reduces errors and increases efficiency

01/31/2023

A simulation study was carried out to assess the impact of PEDeDose. The study concluded that healthcare professionals do substantially less dosing errors and are even faster when using PEDeDose. Here you can find the summary as well as the paper.

Medical device software: regulation remains challenging

11/24/2022

Health apps as well as digital tools with a medical purpose are on the rise. Ever since the EU launched the Medical Devices Regulation, medical device software has been under scrutiny because many manufacturers do not meet the regulatory requirements. The professional associations FMH, pharmaSuisse and "H+ Die Spitäler der Schweiz" has had an expert opinion drawn up for Switzerland.

Administration of extemporaneous preparations despite authorised drugs

02/16/2022

Data from Germany show that despite authorised drugs for indications in infants (propranolol for haemangioma, ibuprofen for ductus arteriosus occlusion and caffeine citrate for the treatment of primary apnoea), these are not used in one out of three cases. Instead, extemporaneous preparations are administered. In the discussion, the question is raised how much - if any - new knowledge is generated by an authorisation process when clinical data from large academic trials are already available? It is clear that the authorised products cost up to 1,700 times more and that the costs probably represent the main reason for further prescribing in the unlicensed area.

The question may be asked whether there is a need for completely new ways of dealing with medicines for children that are currently not authorised?

Harmonisation of drug dosages moves forward

01/18/2022

The Federal Office of Public Health wants to continue to financially support the harmonisation of drug dosages for children. The Office is taking positive stock of the establishment of the SwissPedDose database. It now contains 134 active ingredients and will be continuously expanded. We too support the safe use of medications for children. For this reason, we have been the first eHealth provider to include the dosages from SwissPedDose in our intelligent tool PEDeDose. In addition, our tool contains further dosage recommendations based on clinical studies and the experience of children's hospitals. Health professionals use PEDeDose primarily to calculate patient-specific dosages rapidly with just a few clicks.

Pediatric drug calculators - lack of regulatory compliance

12/23/2021

In a recently published systematic review Koldeweij et al. showed that out of 74 of mobile pediatric drug dosing calculators not even one was certified according to the Medical Device Regulation (MDR), while only one was notified according to the outdated Medical Device Directive (MDD). The authors state the following in the conclusion: "This lack of regulatory compliance puts both clinicians and patients at risk of medical errors resulting from the use of uncertified and, in some cases, potentially unsafe pediatric dosing calculators."

At PEDeus, we take on the effort of MDR (re-)certification every year in order to keep PEDeDose a safe and userfriendly clinical decision support tool that provides our young patients with appropriately dosed medications.

Pharmacists: on their own

10/30/2021

In the recently published article in pharmaJournal (Oct 2021, in German), we report on drug safety in pediatric medicine and on the responsibility of pharmacists. Thanks to intelligent clinical decision support tools, errors in the validation of prescriptions can be prevented.
(article in French)

Description of a clinical decision support tool in the "European Journal of Pediatrics"

09/17/2021

Have you ever wondered how the medication prescribing process may be supported by a Clinical Decision Support tool in pediatrics? And how it is integrated into the existing ICT infrastructure? We proudly present to you our newly published article in the well-respected European Journal of Pediatrics " Description of a clinical decision support tool with integrated dose calculator for paediatrics”.

Smarter medicine in pediatrics

08/24/2021

pädiatrie schweiz (Swiss Society of Pediatrics) has published recommendations under the title "choosing wisely" on five measures that are usually unnecessary and have potential for adverse effects. All of these "Top 5" concern drug therapy - the benefit-risk ratio for the corresponding use is unfavourable, and therefore it is indicated to forgo treatment. We strongly support these Top 5, congratulate pädiatrie Schweiz for their valuable work and wish them every success in their implementation!

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