The Need for SureAssessTM
About six years ago, the Consulting Dietitians at SureQuest Systems, Inc. realized there was a need to automate and standardize their daily workflow.
Dietitians needed a method to process and blend large amounts of data based on scientific formulas and subjective personal interactive interaction with clients, and produce detailed assessments and individualized nutrition care plans.
The process would allow dietitians to manage more clients, be more thorough, monitor more issues, and streamline results translating to increased productivity.
A computerized system would be more reliable and repeatable than the manual process with more predictable results. It could be inclusive and intuitive allowing dietitians the ability to create task lists for managing short and long-term assignments translating to decreased liability.
Thus SureAssessTM was born.
The Challenges
The product designers wanted to provide a user interface that was easy to use for a broad group of professionals with diverse computer skills.
They also wanted to provide anytime, anywhere access to authorized users sharing core practice standards while maintaining patient privacy. This would allow a Consultant RD to maintain his/her own data for multiple facilities. In addition, the data would be available to the facility even when the consultant was not onsite.
At the same time SureQuest Systems, Inc. was developing SureAssessTM, the American Dietetic Association (ADA) began formulating the Nutrition Care Process (NCP) designed to improve the consistency and quality of client care and predictability of client outcomes.
These two development projects were emerging at the same time and the challenge was to ensure that SureQuest incorporated the ADA process into SureAssessTM.
The Result
SureQuest Systems, Inc. has licensed the use of ADA’s “International Dietetics and Nutrition Terminology” giving SureAssessTM the highest level of professional credibility.
Standard formulas are included for all of the basic assessment calculations and the RD professional can select variations of formulas as preferred. Tiered security access protects patient privacy (HIPAA). Logins are assigned various levels of access giving permission to change or view core data and patient information.
SureAssessTM is a Microsoft® .Net product, offering anywhere/anytime access via the internet by consultants and authorized users of each facility.
As with all SureQuest products, the system is intuitively designed and easy to navigate.
The result has been the development of the most complete and efficient nutrition diagnostic assessment tool available today.
