Bedside verification in one step
- using computer vision technology
Getting the right medication to the right patient, and at the right time, is an error prone process which nurses need to follow under time pressure.
Research has shown that more than half of mistakes can easily be prevented by implementing a simple bedside verification check, just before the medication is administered.
Some of the most common mistakes are
- right medication but the wrong patient
- administering a medication for which the prescription has recently been stopped
- wrong medication delivered from pharmacy because of similarities in names, the so-called "sound-a-likes and look-a-likes"
- not registering the administration of "as needed" medication, leading to incorrect dosing
- etc
MedEye can perform this check faster and more reliably than any other solution currently on the market. By checking all medications at once, and at the last possible moment after the medication has been removed from the packaging, MedEye eliminates virtually all preventable medication errors.
Nurses perform their tasks under intense time pressure, where mistakes can cost lives. Handling medication is time consuming for nurses, accounting for up to 20% of the nurses workday. Nurses perform their this task with diligence, individually checking and double checking every medication which is given to the patient.
With MedEye, hospitals and healthcare institutions can now implement a safer and faster medication check. Both saving nurses' time and virtually eliminating the risk of medication errors during administration.
MedEye automatically checks all the medication at once. The nurse simply places all the medications in the MedEye device and everything is automatically checked and registered in one handling.
Because MedEye does not rely on any specific logistics or nursing processes, it can be easily implemented in any hospital. Nurses can start tomorrow and immediately start enjoying the benefits.
MedEye can either be implemented as a standalone solution or as an integral part of the ePrescribing system of the hospital. Integration with existing IT systems is based on established standards and proven interfaces.
Adding MedEye to your IT infrastructure is as simple as pointing the software to where to send the information, and then start scanning.
MedEye is designed with the nurse in mind. With MedEye, the nurse simply puts the medication into the device and gets a clear "ok" signal when all the medications are correct.
If there is something to be adjusted, MedEye provides simple, step by step instructions. With MedEye, nurses do not need any additional training... they already know how to use it.
Nurses simply do their work as they are used, adding only the minor step of showing the medication to MedEye. Our intelligent software takes care of the checking, verification and registration!
About Mint
- revolutionizing medication safety
Mint Solutions was founded with one goal in mind – to revolutionize medication safety in hospitals and other healthcare institutions.
Mint Solutions’ founding team, Ivar Helgason, Gauti Þór Reynisson and María Rúnarsdóttir, have enjoyed a successful carrier in health care informatics and medication management. Working closely with hospitals across Europe, they identified medication safety as the most important new IT development and investment area in the health care sector.
This led to the development of MedEye – a revolutionary medication identification technology, which allows hospitals to perform fast and reliable bedside verification of medicine, just moments before it is given to the patient.
Our design philosophy has been to ensure that the MedEye solution can be implemented gradually and without any pre-processing of the medicine, in order to keep implementing costs at a minimum. We have strived to design scanning devices that are easy to use and cut the medicine handling time considerably.
By applying advanced computer vision technologies and feature extraction, we have succeeded in creating an efficient tool that brings speed and accuracy to medicine verification.
We have spent the last three years developing and testing the MedEye solution. The testing is now entering its final phase, with pilot testing underway in selected hospitals.
Backed with a group of motivated investors and an outstanding development team, Mint Solutions will bring the MedEye solution to the market in 2012. And we look forward to it.
The Team
The Board
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Careers
Mint Solutions is proud of it’s excellent team of developers and healthcare professionals. We are always looking for people that excel in their work and want to be a part of the revolution in medication and patient safety that MedEye is.
We are always looking for excellent candidates with expertise in UI software development and/or computer vision. But we are not only interested in excellent technologists, but also great leaders. If you want to learn more please send a resume to job@mint.is with the type of work you’re interested in and we’ll be in touch.
Available positions
Software Engineer
Computer Vision
Mint Solutions is looking for a programmer who wants dive into the field of computer vision and build a revolutionary product for medication handling in hospitals. We welcome you in a team of founders who know enough programming to think they know best. However, we promise an opportunity to prove us wrong.
Software Engineer
User interface
Our products are developed using the latest technology. We are looking for a UI savvy programmer who not only wants to make things look nice, but functional and easy to use as well. We have excellent contacts with hospitals and you will work with nurses all over Europe to create a product which will make their work easier and safer.
Mint Solutions is proud of it’s excellent team of developers and healthcare professionals. We are always looking for people that excel in their work and want to be a part of the revolution in medication and patient safety that MedEye is.
We are always looking for excellent candidates with expertise in UI software development and/or computer vision. But we are not only interested in excellent technologists, but also great leaders. If you want to learn more please send a resume to job@mint.is with the type of work you’re interested in and we’ll be in touch.
Investors
Mint Solutions is a privately held company.
The company is in the fortunate situation to have sufficient funding to complete the development of the MedEye solution, and bring it to market. The product will be launched in Europe in 2012 and is expected to revolutionize medical safety in hospitals.
However, we are always interested in hearing from investors who would like to discuss future opportunities to invest in the company or our solutions.
For more information, please contact Mint Solutions’ managing director, Gauti Þór Reynisson, gauti@mintsolutions.eu.
Mint Solutions is a privately held company.
The company is in the fortunate situation to have sufficient funding to complete the development of the MedEye solution, and bring it to market. The product will be launched in Europe in 2012 and is expected to revolutionize medical safety in hospitals.
However, we are always interested in hearing from investors who would like to discuss future opportunities to invest in the company or our solutions.
For more information, please contact Mint Solutions’ managing director, Gauti Þór Reynisson, gauti@mintsolutions.eu.
News
This time it was BNR Nieuwsradio with Roelof Hemmen with a short interview with ADRZ this morning. We'll post a link when we find one.
MedEye and ADRZ were the feature of a "korte inslag" in Omroep Zeeland tonight. Take a look.
ADRZ hospital in Vlissingen has now started using MedEye to verify medication administrations for patients. Over the coming two weeks, Mint Solutions and ADRZ will work together to expand the use of MedEye in the first ward, providing complete medication safety. The preparations have been ongoing for a couple of months now, with great help from ChipSoft, making sure the process is as seamless as possible for nurses.
Mint Solutions and ChipSoft have started a partnership to offer hospitals a new way to improve medication safety in hospitals. The two companies will work together to integrate MedEye technology from Mint Solutions into the ChipSoft's EHR system, making it easier than ever before for hospitals to enhance medication safety and implement bedside medication verification.
Users of ChipSoft's EHR solution will be able to use the MedEye technology for verifying the correct medication is being given to the patient, and automatically registering all relevant information. MedEye uses advanced computer vision technology and does not require medications to be provided with barcodes, which greatly simplifies implementation of this important medication safety procedure.
"This cooperation will make it possible for us to put the MedEye technology in the hands of more nurses. The ChipSoft EHR solution and MedEye fit perfectly together and will make it easier for hospitals to implement state of the art medication safety", says the CEO of Mint Solutions, Gauti Reynisson.
Hans Mulder, CEO of ChipSoft: “Patient Safety and medication safety is a number one priority and due to MedEye, nurses have an extra tool to verify the medication”.
Mint Solutions is a healthcare IT startup company, focused on developing solutions for enhancing medication safety processes in hospitals and other healthcare institutions. It's innovative technology, MedEye, provides hospitals with an new way to ensure medication safety by implementing bedside verification. MedEye does not require barcodes, thereby making the process easier and faster for nurses as well as simplifying implementation for hospitals.
ChipSoft is an innovative Dutch software company that has focused on providing ICT solutions for the healthcare sector ever since it was founded in 1986. As a PAS (Patient Administration System) and EHR (Electronic Health Record) supplier, ChipSoft has become market leader in the Netherlands. ChipSoft’s PAS / EMR is called HiX and is developed on the Microsoft.Net platform. Complete and flexible IT solutions, a high degree of configurability and overall user-friendliness are the cornerstones upon which ChipSoft has been automating healthcare organizations for over 25 years. In 2010, ChipSoft was named Microsoft innovation partner of the year in the healthcare sector.
Our MedEye solution was well received at the DIPS-conference in Sandefjord, Norway, this week. Visitors got to see the first glimpse of DIPS-MedEye integration and a short demo of what MedEye can do. At the closing ceremony, Tor Arne Viksjø, managing director of DIPS, announced Mint Solutions as the winner of the "best exhibitor" vote and presented the award to Gauti Reynisson, CEO Mint Solutions.
Mint Solutions and DIPS are working together to offer MedEye to Norwegian hospitals for bedside verification. MedEye, Mint Solutions' innovative bedside verification technology, will be incorporated into the DIPS hospital information system, making it easier than ever before for hospitals to enhance medication safety and implement bedside medication verification.
Through this cooperation, the MedEye technology will be seamlessly integrated to the DIPS EHR. The solution is based on computer vision technology and does not require any barcoding or other changes in the medication logistics processes, making it easy for hospitals to start implementation and see immediate results.
"We are confident that DIPS users will be happy to add MedEye to their DIPS installation. MedEye will not only help with verification of medication, but also take care of all the paperwork relating to the medication rounds, allowing nurses to work faster and safer", says the CEO of Mint Solutions, Gauti Reynisson.
"Our ambition has always been to figure out the best way to support health personel in carrying out their job, with the best information available", says Dr. Tomas Nordheim Alme, CMO of DIPS ASA. The MedEye product, through it's innovative hardware solves a key challenge for any bedside medication verification approach. The combination of DIPS Medication and MedEye allows for easy medication verification, thereby increasing patient safety, while at the same time saving time for the nurses.
Mint Solutions is a healthcare IT startup company, focused on developing solutions for enhancing medication safety processes in hospitals and other healthcare institutions. It's innovative technology, MedEye, provides hospitals with an new way to ensure medication safety by implementing bedside verification. MedEye does not require barcodes, thereby making the process easier and faster for nurses as well as simplifying implementation for hospitals.
DIPS ASA is Norway's leading provider of hospital information systems with over 70% market share. With over 150 employees, DIPS is committed to providing excellent service and state of the art clinical applications for its customers. The company is currently in the process of launching it's next generation product, DIPS Arena, which promises to provide users with even more advanced functionality and ease of use. www.dips.no
We are thrilled to announce that Bjarni Ivarsson has decided to join Mint Solutions. Bjarni's vast experience in developing and architecting medication safety solutions for hospitals will be a big asset for Mint Solutions as we continue to work on revolutionizing support for safe and efficient medication management.
Psychiatric ward in ADRZ hospital in Vlissingen has successfully used MedEye for bedside verification of medication. The first use went extremely well and the staff at ADRZ was able to complete the medication rounds without problems. For Mint Solutions this was also a valuable experience as we
Mint Solutions will present the MedEye Solution at the 2012 congress for the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists, EAHP.
The EAHP event is the leading European conference for medication safety. It takes place in Milan, Italy, on 21-23 March 2012.
Mint Solutions looks forward to this opportunity to present our groundbreaking new technology for bedside verification of medicine to hospital pharmacists in Europe.
We would be delighted to meet you at stand 01 at the conference. For more information, please contact Gauti Þór Reynisson at gauti@mint.is.
Margrét Una Kjartansdóttir has joined Mint Solutions’ steadily growing Research and Development team.
Kjartansdóttir graduated with a B.S. degree in Information Sciences from the Computer Department at the highly respected Columbia University in New York. She has participated in cutting edge projects on machine learning and brings the latest developments in the field into Mint Solutions.
Kjartansdóttir’s biomedical informatics research background will no doubt be valuable in creating the next generation solution for medication safety in hospitals. She is a welcomed addition to our competent team of developers and we look forward to our collaboration with her.
Mint Solutions has been awarded status as a Microsoft BizSpark partner, a recognition that goes to promising software start-ups around the world.
The partnership gives Mint Solutions access to a wide network of specialists in software innovation. It also means that Microsoft will provide Mint Solutions with various software solutions that will contribute to the further development of our company in the coming years.
Mint Solutions greatly appreciates Microsoft’s acknowledgement of the company’s development efforts and business potential.
Mint Solutions has just been awarded a generous grant from the Icelandic Technology Development Fund. The fund’s role is to support research and development activities that promote innovation in Icelandic industry.
“This grant is a recognition of the fantastic development work our team has accomplished until now and inspires us to keep going. The grant will help us further develop the MedEye solution before we start testing with partner hospitals in the fall”, says Gauti Þór Reynisson, managing director of Mint Solutions.
It is with great pleasure that Mint Solutions can announce the arrival of the first MedEye medication identification scanners. The scanners are manufactured by Job Kneppers Design & Production in Delft in Holland.
After the initial integration testing of the devices, we are pleased to note that all electronics and mechanics work as expected.
Mint Solutions would like to thank Job Kneppers for their excellent efforts with the design and production of the MedEye device, and not least for their delivery within both schedule and budget.
The MedEye scanners will undergo further testing in the coming months and will be ready for delivery to our customers in September 2011.