We're a dedicated team of clinicians, academics and engineers, doing what we do to improve patient outcomes and save lives.
In healthcare, we all do what we do to improve patient outcomes and save lives.
—Nicholas Appelbaum, Co-Founder and CEO
Founded by a doctor and a team of patient safety experts, Dosium is on a mission to reduce avoidable harm caused by prescribing errors widespread, yet preventable issue with the right technology.
Through an exclusive integration with the British National Formulary (BNF) and British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), as well as links to Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Prescribing and Medication Administration (EPMA) systems, Dosium’s Touchdose product delivers indication-based, patient-specific dosing recommendations directly into the hands of clinicians.
Touchdose calculates the correct dosage of any drug for any patient and indication, including frequency, duration, and route of administration, seamlessly integrating local guidelines for real-time decision support. This system offers a safer alternative to manual methods like mental arithmetic or unregulated apps, and avoids overwhelming clinicians with excessive alerts that don’t enhance safety.
Medication errors are responsible for over 1,700 preventable deaths - comparable to the number of fatalities from road traffic accidents in Britain. Dosium was born out of Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation, utilising insights from trauma and critical care units to design a system that truly addresses prescribing safety in collaboration with frontline clinicians.
If we’re going to find better answers and transform clinical expectations, we know we’ll need the most robust rationale and the strongest evidence to support our interventions. We were born from academic beginnings and clinical insights gathered through research in trauma and critical care units at Imperial College London. In everything we do, we leverage the solid foundations of our thorough research heritage to launch us forward to deeper understanding and better answers. That’s why we’re committed to only ever working with the most reliable and up-to-date information that comes from hard-earned partnerships like the one we have with BNF and BNF for Children.
To solve real-life problems and create tools and technology that create useful change we’ll need the make the most of our lived experience and what it tells us about how it feels to work on healthcare’s frontline. From the beginning, we’ve been working hand in hand with clinicians and the systems they operate in to design interventions that make sense and actually work. In all that we do, we connect with what drives our users and work harder to provide tools that meet their needs, raise their expectations and always help them to improve the way they treat patients and deliver care. Sometimes that even means creating an experience that knows when to get out of the way to help them simply do what they do best.
It will take all our engineering know-how to create tools and technology that inspire the positive change this sector deserves. We know that standard innovation methods like test and learn won’t cut it and that learnings from other sectors can’t be transplanted without careful re-engineering. Change is risk and the risks are already higher in healthcare. It takes more time, more energy and more care to build precision products that work and get it right from the start. That connect the dots and create smarter interactions with trusted resources. That empower practitioners. That last the test of time and work harder to make more of what we already have, spark useful change and influence better outcomes.
We're a dedicated team of clinicians, academics and engineers, doing what we do to improve patient outcomes and save lives.
