Fast and effective medical workflow: MESI Protocol app

Download protocols, create your own and share them with the medical community

Protocols are a vital way to provide an equal level of care to patients and save time for medical professionals. With digital technology, the need for paper protocols is disappearing. Digital protocols are easily accessible at your office or home visits on any web-enabled device, and you can add new ones at any time. You can also create your own, based on your work and examination requirements.

All this and more can be done with the MESI Protocol app – an integral part of every MESI mTABLET system.

In this blog you will learn:

What is the Protocol app?
How to access the Protocol app
The Protocol Store
Available protocols
How to create your own protocols
How to share your own protocols with the professional community

What is the Protocol app?

The MESI Protocol app is a practical tool available for every MESI mTABLET system, regardless of what diagnostic module(s) you use.

Here is what you can do with it:

Need a new protocol? Browse through the many protocols published in the Protocol Store. You can access the store through MESI mRECORDS (a free medical management software that comes with every MESI mTABLET) as well as when using the MESI mTABLET.

Would you like to create a protocol precisely for your needs? Easily create one in MESI mRECORDS and be guided through the entire creation process. You can do it in steps; just save your work and continue later.

Would you like to perform an existing protocol? This can be done on your MESI mTABLET (with measurements) or in MESI mRECORDS (if no measurements are needed). The results are instantly saved into the patient’s file.

Does your examination take place in several steps at different locations or medical departments? Save the protocol results as you go and continue where you left off at any time.

Have you created a new protocol and wish to share it with others outside your organisation? Publish it in the Protocol Store and reach the entire MESI mTABLET medical community.

How to access the Protocol app

The Protocol app is accessible on the menu page on the MESI mTABLET and on the menu page of MESI mRECORDS. The MESI mTABLET serves a different use than the MESI mRECORDS; for this reason, the use of the Protocol app differs on them as well.

Protocol app on the MESI mTABLET

The MESI mTABLET is a handy, portable tool with which you can perform a variety of measurements. Performing, viewing and sharing measurements is its primary function. Nevertheless, you can also store a limited amount of performed measurements and (partially or fully) completed protocols in the MESI mTABLET archive. (Please note: all performed measurements and protocols are automatically stored in MESI mRECORDS.)

On the MESI mTABLET, the Protocol app is accessible on the menu page, along with other diagnostic modules you have purchased:

After pressing the Protocol icon, you are taken to the My Protocols list.

On the MESI mTABLET, the Protocol enables the following:

Accessing the Protocol Store to download protocols.
Viewing the protocols that you have on My Protocols, either those you have created or those you have downloaded from the Protocol Store.
Full execution of the protocols available on My Protocols, either created by you or downloaded from the Protocol Store.
Sharing of the protocol reports for a second opinion.

Protocol in MESI mRECORDS

MESI mRECORDS is a management tool accessible on any web-enabled device, e.g. your computer or other personal device. All the patient files and measurements that you create are automatically saved here; they can be viewed or edited at any time. This is also where you create original protocols.

The MESI mTABLET Protocol is accessible on the MESI mRECORDS application page.

It enables the following functionalities (depending on the Protocol version you are using – see Available protocols in the continuation):

Accessing the Protocol Store to download protocols.
Viewing the protocols on the My Protocols page, either from the Protocol Store or those you created.
Creation of protocols and publishing them in the Protocol Store.
Changing and editing of the protocols you have created.
Sharing the protocol reports for a second opinion.
Execution, but up to a degree: if the protocol contains questionnaires, they can be filled in here. However, if a protocol also contains measurements, you can only perform them on the MESI mTABLET.

The Protocol Store

The Protocol Store is available both on the MESI mTABLET and in MESI mRECORDS. It is a collection of protocols published by MESI and users of the MESI mTABLET. If you have the Basic Protocol version, your functionalities in the Protocol Store will be limited. The Full Version is available upon inquiry and offers a complete range of features.

The protocols are presented in the form of cards with descriptions. You can also browse the protocols by medical categories and preview them as well.

Available protocols

The availability of the protocols differs according to the Protocol version you select. The Basic Protocol versionis available free of charge to every MESI mTABLET system user whereas Full Version is available upon inquiry.

Basic Protocol

The Basic Protocol app enables limited access to the Protocol feature. The user can:

download free protocols from the Protocol Store
fill them in
share partially or fully filled in protocols (reports) for a second opinion
view the protocol reports in mRECORDS and in the MESI mTABLET archive

The user can not:

create their own protocols
download all protocols from the Protocol Store
upload their protocols to the Protocol Store to share them with the medical community

Full Version

This version gives the user full access to the Protocol feature. This means that the user can:

download any protocols from the Protocol Store
share partially or fully filled in protocols (reports) for a second opinion
view the protocol reports in MESI mRECORDS and in the MESI mTABLET archive
create their own protocols
publish them in the Protocol Store to share with the wider community

How to create your own protocols

In MESI mRECORDS, click the “Create” button on the My Protocols screen. You will first be taken to the Created Protocols page, which contains all the protocols you have created. Press “Create new” or click any other protocol you wish to modify.

You can create protocols in phases, save them as you go and continue at any point. You can edit them, share them with working groups, publish them in the Protocol Store or delete them. Please note: to delete your published protocol from the Protocol Store, contact the Store administrator.

When creating a new protocol, you can choose between different types of question formation and different types of measurements.

A highly useful feature in creating your protocols is branching. It changes the flow of the next questions based on how the patient answers the current one. Example: you ask the patient whether they are a smoker or not. Based on their answer, the next questions will be related to smokers or non-smokers. Branching is a standard feature of the MESI mTABLET Protocol creation and is very easy to use.

MESI mRECORDS offers the sharing of the created protocols in three different ways:

Have you created a protocol that you feel would be very useful for your colleague if they made some modifications? Go to “Created Protocols” and select “Share editable duplicate”.

Would you like to share a protocol with a working group? Go to “Created Protocols” and select “Share with working group”. A pop-up appears with a question if you would like to share it with your working group. Select the desired group from the drop-down menu.

The Protocol Store can add a wider social dimension to your work. If you would like to share your protocol with the entire MESI mTABLET community, go to “Created protocols” and press “Send” to publish it in the Protocol Store. After your protocol is reviewed by the Store administrator, it will be available to others to see and use. Please note that, once published in the Protocol Store, the protocol can not be changed there. However, you can publish a new one at any time.