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ObsBay

A few hours’ observation without a ward: bays, the NEWS2 chart, the clock against your own limit, and a decision to discharge, admit or transfer.

Installs with TriageLine, whose screen it works on

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What it is

An urgent-care centre keeps a patient for a few hours — a head injury watched, a drip run, pain settled — without a ward. From triage, Observe opens a short stay in one of the centre’s own bays (one patient to a bay, one open stay per patient), and the department’s team stays on the patient until it ends. Each observation set is scored on NEWS2 by the same scorer the ward uses, and its vitals go on the patient’s chart. The stay’s clock runs from arrival against the centre’s own limit — the hours it enters with its source, such as its observation-unit policy or the licence it holds; none ships, and without one the clock only counts. A prescriber ends the stay: discharge, admit (a ward bed requested exactly as triage requests one) or transfer, saying where to.

Who uses it: Built for: Emergency Medicine
Reads: Triage episodes, wards, for an admission
Writes: Bays, short stays, observation sets and their NEWS2, vitals on the chart, ward bed requests
Never: It does not decide when a patient may go — a prescriber does — and it ships no stay limit: the clock counts against the centre’s own.
Access: Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who
Your data: Full PHI. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: Triage stops offering Observe; every stay, set and decision is kept.

In the product

Who uses it: Doctor — the demo profile it is best tried as
Where it opens: Clinical › Observation bays /obs-bay
Permission: obsbay.read

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How it works

Name your bays and your limitThe hours a stay may run, with your source.
Observe from triageThe stay opens in a bay and the clock starts.
Chart NEWS2Each set scored and put on the patient’s chart.
DecideDischarge, admit to a ward or transfer, by a prescriber.

Rules it keeps

What it does not do, by design. A listing with only benefits is an advertisement.

It does not decide when a patient may go — a prescriber does — and it ships no stay limit: the clock counts against the centre’s own.

It pages nobody when a score rises; the board puts the worst first.

AI in ObsBay

AskQuestions about what is on screen — “What needs attention in ObsBay today?” — answered with the records it read.

DraftSummaries and notes for the team, marked as drafts until a person signs.

Every answer shows its sources. Nothing AI writes is saved until a person accepts it.

See it on screen

ObsBay — Observation bays — Observe a patient for a few hours without a ward, on NEWS2, against your own limit — 01Observation bays — Observe a patient for a few hours without a ward, on NEWS2, against your own limitCaptured from the running demo clinic

01Observation bays — Observe a patient for a few hours without a ward, on NEWS2, against your own limitCaptured from the running demo clinic

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Connected to

Read out of the code, not the brochure: each app below is here because one service queries the other’s tables. Install either side and the hand-over is already wired.

Reads from · 3

Patient Registry TriageLine WardLine

Hands to · 2

TriageLine WardLine

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Questions clinics ask

What does ObsBay do?

A few hours’ observation without a ward: bays, the NEWS2 chart, the clock against your own limit, and a decision to discharge, admit or transfer. An urgent-care centre keeps a patient for a few hours — a head injury watched, a drip run, pain settled — without a ward. From triage, Observe opens a short stay in one of the centre’s own bays (one patient to a bay, one open stay per patient), and the department’s team stays on the patient until it ends. Each observation set is scored on NEWS2 by the same scorer the ward uses, and its vitals go on the patient’s chart. The stay’s clock runs from arrival against the centre’s own limit — the hours it enters with its source, such as its observation-unit policy or the licence it holds; none ships, and without one the clock only counts. A prescriber ends the stay: discharge, admit (a ward bed requested exactly as triage requests one) or transfer, saying where to.

What data does ObsBay read and write?

ObsBay reads triage episodes, wards, for an admission and writes bays, short stays, observation sets and their NEWS2, vitals on the chart, ward bed requests. Its data class is Full PHI. Every app works on the same patient record — nothing is copied into a silo.

What does ObsBay deliberately not do?

It does not decide when a patient may go — a prescriber does — and it ships no stay limit: the clock counts against the centre’s own. It pages nobody when a score rises; the board puts the worst first.

What happens to our data if we uninstall ObsBay?

Triage stops offering Observe; every stay, set and decision is kept.

Is ObsBay available today?

Yes — ObsBay is live in clinics today. Set up your practice on MedAppz and install it from your dashboard.

Want to see ObsBay running on your own patients?

Tell us what you run and we will show you this app inside a practice shaped like yours — or answer the question the page above did not.

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