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ShortageWatch

A nationally short drug, flagged with its pre-approved substitute.

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What it is

Flags a drug that has gone into national short supply the moment a prescription calls for it, and hands the prescriber the hospital’s own pre-approved substitute instead of a dispensing delay discovered at the counter.

Who uses it
Built for: Every specialty
Reads
Prescriptions, shortage lists, substitution formulary
Writes
Shortage flags, substitution suggestions
Never
It does not substitute a medicine automatically — the prescriber approves the swap; this only surfaces that one is needed.
Access
Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who
Your data
No PHI. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: Nothing to remove yet — this app is in development.

How it works

The usual shape of a queue & board app. ShortageWatch’s own steps are written from its screen when it ships.

  1. It arrivesA new item lands on the board — from a booking, a referral or a colleague.
  2. Work itAssign it, move it along, see who is waiting and for how long.
  3. Close itDone items leave the board and stay in the record.

Rules it keeps

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

It does not substitute a medicine automatically — the prescriber approves the swap; this only surfaces that one is needed.

AI in ShortageWatch

AskQuestions about what is on screen — “What needs attention in ShortageWatch 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.

Questions clinics ask

What does ShortageWatch do?
A nationally short drug, flagged with its pre-approved substitute. Flags a drug that has gone into national short supply the moment a prescription calls for it, and hands the prescriber the hospital’s own pre-approved substitute instead of a dispensing delay discovered at the counter.
What data does ShortageWatch read and write?
ShortageWatch reads prescriptions, shortage lists, substitution formulary and writes shortage flags, substitution suggestions. Its data class is No PHI. Every app works on the same patient record — nothing is copied into a silo.
What does ShortageWatch deliberately not do?
It does not substitute a medicine automatically — the prescriber approves the swap; this only surfaces that one is needed.
What happens to our data if we uninstall ShortageWatch?
Nothing to remove yet — this app is in development.
Is ShortageWatch available today?
Not yet — ShortageWatch is in development and cannot be installed. Join the waitlist and we will tell you when it opens.

Join the waitlist for ShortageWatch

ShortageWatch is in development and cannot be installed yet. Leave your name and number: the waitlist decides what we build next, and we will tell you when it opens.

We use your name, phone number and clinic name for one thing: to answer this enquiry about MedAppz. It is stored on our own server, in the single region our trust centre names, and it is not sold or passed to anyone else.

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