What is Clinical Fox?
At first glance, Clinical Fox is simply an electronic sticker-capture app. A way to quickly and reliably capture a patient sticker at the bedside or during a case.
When I first started building the earliest version, this was the most important Job to be Done: to quickly capture a sticker with my phone for later use. No cards to lose, or stickers to forget. Start and end times accurately and automatically recorded, along with a note with billing instructions. No more billing stress or distraction.
As COVID became more of an issue in 2020 operating theatres, it was equally important to not be moving paper and stickers between cases and offices… and homes… and more patients. At least a smartphone can be sanitised!
And so Clinical Fox was at first just this: a new and better way to capture stickers.
As I used the app routinely every day and for every case – along with a few select friends and colleagues – new capabilities were added: item numbers & case estimates, demographics, medicare & fund memberships, private notes, attachments, revenue & logbook statistics, instant syncing across devices, and a distributed & scalable secure cloud database as the foundation of the whole system.
With each refinement and new capability, Clinical Fox replaced another old tool: sticker collections, billing cards, printed lists, scraps of paper, MBS references, photos of ECGs & scans of letters, note apps, spreadsheets and revenue statements.
Clinical Fox had grown to become an anaesthetist’s own personal electronic medical & professional record. And there’s still more to come!
- Dr Daniel Jolley, MBBS FANZCA MMed(Periop) MBA(Innov)
Check out Clinical Fox’s feature change log for insight into how the app has progressed with each update.