Pathways is Medbridge's new provider-driven clinical digital program platform. Learn more about Medbridge Pathways and request a demo.
Pathways generates alerts based on patient-reported data, helping clinicians monitor changes in patient status. Alerts are categorized by severity levels: Low, High, or Critical. Currently, Pathways includes alerts for Pain, Function, Engagement, Motion Capture, and Reported Falls.
You can manage alerts directly from the patient record or the Alerts tab.
Alert Severity Levels
Each alert type has a severity level based on the reported change. The criteria for these levels may vary by alert type.
Low Severity Alerts
- Engagement (Low Engagement): Patient has not logged into the application 49+ hours. This status will remain until the patient logs in (in which it resets) or the patient is inactive for 14 days where their status will elevate to Stalled Engagement.
- Pain: Pain score of 5 or more with an increase of 1 point on a 10-point scale since last reported assessment.
High Severity Alerts
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Engagement (Stalled Engagement): Patient has not logged into the application in over 14 days.
- Note: this will automatically dismiss once the patient reaches 21 days and reaches dropped status.
- Pain: Significant increase in pain (2 points or more on a 10-point scale) since last reported assessment.
- Function: No improvement detected over the last two assessments.
- Motion Capture (Reported Near Fall): Motion capture detected a “fall” during an assessment but the patient reported that it wasn’t a fall but a “near fall”.
Critical Severity Alerts
- Pain: Pain level reported as 7 or higher.
- Function: A decrease in function of 20% or more compared to the last reported level.
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Reported Fall: The patient has reported a fall.
- Note: A reported fall will pause the patient’s program. This can be resumed after a clinician reviews the alert by unpausing within the patient's record.
Additional alert types may be introduced in future updates.