EM-I-CLEAR

Education & Research

We work in
four directions.

We train people, share what they need to protect themselves, connect the two with technology, and use research to check that the connection actually holds.

01 Provider education

We train the people
who provide care.

We run simulation education for pediatric and emergency medicine residents and for medical students. We build a simulated electronic medical record where learners place real orders and read real results, and we develop the scenarios and teaching materials to match.

The scenarios cover situations where judgment diverges and time changes the outcome — respiratory distress, major trauma, status epilepticus, sepsis. What was ordered and what was missed is recorded, and going through that record together is the debriefing.

02 Technology

From the patient's words
into clinical language.

Describe what is wrong in your own words. The tool asks follow-up questions the way a clinical interview does, sets out the key symptoms and how they have changed, and tells you whether this looks urgent. Where it is needed, it walks through the first aid that can be given at home and points to the nearest emergency department.

What it sets out is written in language a clinician can read straight away. If that record carries through after arrival at the emergency department, someone who is genuinely urgent does not have to tell the whole story again from the beginning.

This tool provides reasoning and recommendations. The final decision rests with the person using it, and it does not replace diagnosis or emergency judgment.

Emergency decision supportIn development
Since yesterday my stomach hurts and I have a fever.
Which part of the abdomen hurts most? Any vomiting or diarrhea with it?
How high has the fever gone, and does it come down with fever medicine?
Passed to the clinician

RLQ pain 12 h · fever 38.9℃ · vomiting ×2 · partial response to antipyretics

Describe how you feel, in your own words↑

03 Public education

Sharing what people need
to protect themselves.

We create resources so that citizens, caregivers and teachers can look after their own health and the health of the people beside them. The format and the depth change with who is reading.

For children, how not to get hurt, in the form children actually watch. For caregivers, what to worry about and which signs to watch. For adolescents, how to recognize a crisis in themselves and in a friend, and how to ask for help.

04 Research

Checking that
the method holds.

We ask whether changing how we teach changes what happens to patients. Children cannot explain their symptoms, cooperate poorly with testing and are more vulnerable to radiation, which is exactly why ultrasound performed at the bedside is so useful. How to teach it is the research question.

The other axis is artificial intelligence and machine learning. This is not the first such attempt. We do it because this is the fastest way to cover the gaps where people are missing.

Research is conducted under the approval of the performing institution's IRB, and patient data is handled in anonymized form.

Projects

What we are working on.

We separate what is under way from what is still at the planning stage. Completed work stays here too.

Simulation education

In progress

Provider education · We build the simulated record system, the scenarios and the teaching materials ourselves.

Pediatric point-of-care ultrasound

In progress

Provider education · Research · Does how we teach it change how accurately it is diagnosed?

Emergency decision support

In development

Technology · Describe what is wrong; it tells you how urgent this looks and puts it into clinical language.

Pre-consultation interview

In design

Technology · Turning what is asked during the wait into something usable in the record.

Emergency department finder

Planned

Technology · Where you can actually reach from here, with pediatric availability and opening hours.

Childhood injury prevention

Planned

Public education · How not to get hurt, in the form children actually watch.

Adolescent mental health assessment

Planned

Public education · Technology · Self-assessment tools and digital therapeutics.

Research note

Emergency decision support is a research project in development and is not available to the public. It does not replace clinical diagnosis or emergency care.