Objectives

The main goals of PAHTool are:

  • ● to be user friendly
  • ● to help PAH team in their daily clinical activities:
    • ○ working according to the best practices
    • ○ making the clinical practice easier (clinical picture, table evolution, automatic reporting)
    • ○ helping in clinical decisions
  • ● to build a data basefor information about:
    • ○ clinical activities
    • ○ results of clinical management
    • ○ epidemiological investigation and research
    • ○ elaboration of registriesbut as a result of the normal activitywithout duplication of the workof the team

PAHTool intends to serve the PAH team, helping in its daily clinical activities, allowing to introduce all assisted patients, with or without confirmed PH, inserting relevant data for the characterization of patients and disease.

Using PAHTool you will find that it helps in registering and evaluating clinical data, results of diagnostic tests, patients evolution and in therapeutic decisions. The way that the clinical data are presented gives you a quick and comprehensive view of the clinical picture of the patient saving time in the clinic.

PAHTool was designed fulfilling PAH guidelines and can be customized according to the centre needs.

PAHTool: A dedicated software for PAH - National and international experience!

Description

PAHTool has 3 sections: Data entry, Clinical file and Searches.

  • ● Data entry
  • This section allows you to add a new patient (First visit), fill a Follow-up visit or close a patient file (Synthesis).
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  • First visit and Follow-up tabs open a wizard with the following tabs:
    • ○ Identification (First visit) or Hospitalization type (Follow-up)
    • ○ Classification
    • ○ Previous history;
    • ○ Current history;
    • ○ 6MWT (6-minute walk test);
    • ○ Hemodynamic;
    • ○ Echocardiogram;
    • ○ Other exams;
    • ○ Biological tests;
    • ○ Treatment.
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  • Each tab opens a screen with all important parameters to fill in.
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  • Synthesis tab opens a screen to fill in with the conclusion of the patient management (death, discharge, transferred to, lost to follow-up)
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  • ● Clinical file
  • This section gives you access to an existing patient file where all tabs of the wizard can be consulted and edited or deleted (if you have permission for that).
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  • Clinical picture, a summary of the most important patient data, and Clinical evolution, a table with an easy view of the prognostic markers evolution, are always available to help you in clinical decisions.
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  • ● Searches
  • This section gives you access to Statistics (graphics or tables with pre-defined searches) and Reports where you can search, in a tailored fashion, almost all the data introduced, and export them to an excel file.

Security

PAHTool has 3 levels of security: the user login that gives access in accordance to the user profile, data encryption and webapi communication:

  • ● User login
  • PAHTool has a login strong password, session expiration timeout and profiles associated to each user. Based on that profile the user has access to the functionalities of PAHTool files.
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  • ● Data encryption
  • All personal data are encrypted with a hash algorithm SHA256, using a symmetric key. The key is generated for each record and is encrypted on the fly when the record is saved.
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  • ● webapi communication
  • All data access is done through webapi services. This service has a DAL that provides the methods to access the database and protects from hackers injection (SQL commands) and unauthorized access to data.