Our new app:

MEDORG | Hands
Empowering Patients,
Building Trust.

Change the way you get informed, decide and heal with MEDORG | Hands.

The New Software for Informed consent enhancing the doctor-patient relationship before, during, and after surgical treatment.

An Intuitive Medical App for Informed Consent

Our app combines minimalistic design with comprehensive illustrations, enabling patients
to better understand complex medical procedures.

Our aim is to emphasize the one-on-one communication between patient and doctor. Through insisting on minimalistic and unconspicuous design our consent protocol provides a minimal-invasive interface which honors the priority of the physical doctor-patient-interaction when performing surgery.

Furthermore, the intuitiveness of the template makes it a powerful tool in our joint mission of making high-quality healthcare accessible for everyone by communicating visually rather through present discriminatory thresholds.

Patients are guided through the steps of a medical procedure, doctors focus on their expertise, and organizations gain efficiency. At the end of the day, this effort actively contributes to reducing the costs of healthcare shouldered by many communities.

How does
MEDORG | Hands actually work?

Key Features of MEDORG | Hands

  • Insightful Data Visualization

    Comprehensive, user-friendly graphics to guide patients towards informed decisions.

  • Privacy and Security Concerns

    Ensures compliance with regulations while safeguarding patient data.

  • Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

    Inclusive design to accommodate diverse populations.

  • Legal and Ethical Compliance

    Meets global standards for informed consent documentation.

Why Choose
MEDORG | Hands?

What we are dealing with today

An overview to some of the most challenging aspects in the process of informed consent for patients, healthcare professionals and clinical institutions.

Patients

Complexity and Accessibility

Privacy and Security Concerns

Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

Doctors

Performance Pressure

Administrative Workload

Complexity of Surgical Procedure

Organizations

Cost Pressure

Personnel Reductions

Legal and Ethical Complexity

What we are
improving through
our interface:

as a PATIENT,

you are empowered with autonomy, and gain an understanding of your options.

as a DOCTOR,

your workload is reduced and the overall communication improved.

as an ORGANIZATION,

you gain efficiency and compliance;
and ultimately, healthcare costs are reduced.

MEDORG | Hands is your solution to:

  • Consent must be given freely without coercion or manipulation. Patients should not feel pressured or compelled to agree to a particular treatment or procedure. 

  • Patients must comprehend the information provided to them in a language and format they can understand. 

  • Consent should be documented in the patient’s medical record (details of information provided, patient’s decision). This documentation serves as evidence. 

  • Patients need to comprehend information about their condition, treatment options, risks, and benefits for informed decisions. 

  • Healthcare providers ensure that patients have the necessary mental capacity to understand the information provided, to make decisions about their care. 

  • The right to withdraw the consent at any time, even after initially agreeing to a procedure. Healthcare providers must respect this autonomy. 

  • Healthcare providers must offer detailed information about treatments, covering purpose, risks, alternatives, and outcomes. 

  • Informed consent should be specific to the particular procedure being proposed. No blanket consent for unspecified future interventions should be asked. 

  • This ongoing process may require discussions as circumstances change. Open communication and involvement in decision-making should be provided. 

Did you know?

Recently, a review article on the quality of Informed Consent in Surgery in the USA was published in the globally renowned Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Jildeh et al. 2021). The article elaborated key aspects of patient education before undergoing surgery. One of the four main points highlighted was the detailed explanation of both the patient’s condition and the planned procedure in layman’s terms. It was considered crucial for the patient to fully understand their pathology and the nature of the procedure being performed. Overall, this article gives a poor assessment of preoperative patient education in the USA. Similar conclusions have been drawn by studies from around the world, such as Agozzino et al. 2019 from Italy, Cainzos and Gonzalez-Vinagre 2014 from Spain, Hanson and Pitt 2017 from Canada, or Vikas et al. 2021 from India. The inadequacy of patient education seems to be exacerbated in emergency situations, particularly with trauma patients. A study from Israel, published in the Journal of Orthopedic Surgery from Hong Kong, examined patient satisfaction with education among those undergoing trauma treatment. The results indicate a significantly reduced understanding of the planned operation among trauma patients compared to elective procedures (Semesh et al. 2019). In a systematic literature analysis published in the British Journal of Surgery, an international research group summarizes that digital technology holds promise for improving patient education and should be promoted (Kiernan et al. 2023).

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Literature: 

Agozzino E, Borrelli S, Cancellieri M, Carfora FM, Di Lorenzo T, Attena F. Does written informed consent adequately inform surgical patients? A cross sectional study. BMC Med Ethics. 2019 Jan 7;20(1):1.

Cainzos MA, González-Vinagre S. Informed consent in surgery. World J Surg. 2014 Jul;38(7):1587-93.

Hanson M, Pitt D. Informed consent for surgery: risk discussion and documentation. Can J Surg. 2017 Feb;60(1):69-70.

Jildeh TR, Abbas MJ, Hengy MH, O’Brien H, Gani GS, Okoroha KR. Informed Consent for the Orthopaedic Surgeon. JBJS Rev. 2021 Jul 16;9(7).

Kiernan A, Fahey B, Guraya SS, Boland F, Moneley D, Doyle F, Harkin DW. Digital technology in informed consent for surgery: systematic review. BJS Open. 2023 Jan 6;7(1):zrac159.

Shemesh S, Sidon E, Heller S, Cohen N, Kosashvili Y, Dovrat R, Velkes S, Burg A. The quality of informed consent obtained for orthopedic surgeries-elective versus trauma: A prospective interview-based study. J Orthop Surg (Hong Kong). 2019 May-Aug;27(2).

Vikas H, Kini A, Sharma N, Gowda NR, Gupta A. How informed is the informed consent? J Family Med Prim Care. 2021 Jun;10(6):2299-2303.

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