Empower Your Patients

Top Reasons Medical Providers Use HydroAssist® with Their Patients.

An integrated view of hydrocephalus care and management over time in a single location.
For most providers, patient information is dispersed throughout the medical record. With HydroAssist^®, hydrocephalus-specific information is now in one place.

Access to vital information that is often missing from the medical record.
As a neurosurgeon seeing a new patient in possible hydrocephalic crisis, knowing about programmable valve settings, shunt valve type, surgical procedures performed, key timeline factors such as date of last reprogramming and correlation of HydroAssist’s symptom tracker data can help quickly determine if that patient might require more diagnostic procedures or even surgical intervention.

Access to key image data.
Accessing images from one hospital system to another often remains a cumbersome time-consuming obstacle. When time is of the essence, being able to quickly see key images of a patient’s brain stored within the app and being able to easily correlate which images represent the healthy normal state for a patient and what historically has represented a loss of hydrocephalic control can be very helpful.

Promotion of patient education and self-advocacy for hydrocephalus management.
All providers know the value of patients and their families advocating in an intelligent way for their care. This app allows direct access for the patient to the most important information about their own personal hydrocephalus treatment. It promotes patient “buy-in” to their care by making them feel empowered in tracking their hydrocephalus health data.

Hydrocephalus teaching for newly diagnosed patients. 
Many hydrocephalus patients are newborn babies with other complex medical issues, strained, overwhelmed parents, or adults grappling with a diagnosis that is life-changing. Having an app with quick easy access to the Hydrocephalus Association’s educational resources allows families to review valuable information that is unlikely to stick with them via standard verbal education at the bedside.

Travel security.
Providers can feel more comfortable with patients traveling knowing they are keeping their most important hydrocephalus information right in their pocket (or in the cloud!) at all times.  Furthermore, patients have access to the “Find a Doctor” feature where they can quickly locate contacts for providers that are experts in hydrocephalus care.