Health & care

Appointment reminder app for medical assistants in general practices: sends reminders automatically by SMS or WhatsApp, lets patients confirm or cancel with a single tap and passes cancelled slots straight to a waiting list. The list sorts by urgency, treatment type and travel distance and notifies suitable patients automatically; from past history the app detects repeated no-shows and reminds those patients earlier and twice. Each morning a dashboard shows who has not confirmed and who still needs a phone call. The daily schedule exports as a PDF for the front desk; in a Heidelberg practice with a twelve percent no-show rate this replaces around three hours of phone work per day.

Website builder for dental practices: creates a practice website within minutes, with team, treatments, opening hours, directions and online booking linked directly to the practice calendar. A subpage for acute toothache automatically shows each morning which emergency slots are still free that day, so patients in pain see when they can come without calling. New patients complete a digital medical history form before their first appointment and the answers appear prepared in the record, while bookings reach the calendar without double-booking. The site is mobile-friendly and accessible; a Duisburg practice still running a 2014 site gains a weekly utilisation report and loses the constant phone traffic.

Consent form generator for surgical centres and practices: turns a procedure template plus patient master data into a finished form with name and date of birth inserted and risks matched to the procedure, producing two copies with signature fields. Every form automatically generates a plain-language version and a take-home sheet with a drawing of the procedure. A version history records which form a patient was consented with, and missing mandatory fields are reported before generation instead of being silently accepted. Export is a print-ready PDF or goes straight to the tablet during the consent consultation; in a Dortmund surgical centre the effort drops from twenty minutes per patient to a few minutes.

Shift planner for care managers in care homes: builds a monthly roster for 18 care staff from a template and warns immediately when the eleven-hour rest period is breached or too many nights in a row are planned. Staff propose swaps themselves and the manager approves them with one tap; qualifications and contracted hours are checked automatically. When someone calls in sick, the app suggests replacements who are off duty and hold the required qualification, and marks open gaps in the coverage grid. The finished rota exports as a PDF for the notice board and per person to their phone; in a Bielefeld home with 18 care staff this removes roughly two days of Excel work a month.

Handover app for night-shift care workers in retirement homes: records a structured handover per resident covering condition, changed medication, doctor visits, falls and special incidents. Handovers can be dictated and are converted automatically into clean entries, while reusable phrases for recurring observations can be inserted with one tap. A morning overview flags every resident with any change in the last 24 hours and links each entry to the previous handover, so multi-day developments are visible at a glance. The day shift receives a print-ready PDF that takes two minutes to read; in a Hannover facility handover time falls from over thirty minutes to a few.

Emergency card app for care companions in dementia shared flats: creates a card for each resident with photo, diagnoses, allergies, medication, family contacts and preferred hospital. A QR code next to every room door opens the card instantly, a print-ready PDF goes to the ambulance crew and the hospital, and the card works offline in large type. A wandering profile records each resident's favourite places, habits and routes so they can be found faster, and every change is logged with the person and a timestamp. The QR code itself stays the same and always shows the current version; in a Freiburg flat with eight residents the emergency information is available within seconds.

Exercise plan app for physiotherapists in therapy practices: assembles a per-patient plan from a library sorted by body region, with sets, repetitions and short execution cues. Every exercise gets a QR code opening a muted video with subtitles showing the correct execution, and the generated PDF is available in normal and large-print versions. Patients tick off what they have completed at home, flag exercises that are too hard with one button and see their weekly progress, so training frequency is ready before the next appointment. If exercises stay unticked for two weeks or a hard exercise is reported, a task appears in the practice list, and plans can be copied for similar cases; in a Lübeck practice the effort for hand-drawn sheets drops markedly.

Documentation app for psychotherapists in private practice: structures sessions by date, topic, course and special observations, stored encrypted and accessible only to the treating practitioner. Each patient gets a timeline of the therapy course, entries are searchable by topic, and frequently used wording can be inserted as text modules. From the entries the app generates a report for reimbursement that the practice only has to review and sign; automatic diagnoses or treatment recommendations are explicitly not produced, only what has been entered is documented. Every report version stays retrievable, a monthly overview shows case numbers and topics, and in a Cologne practice this saves around half an hour per therapy day.

Post-rehab app for patients after hip surgery in follow-up care: imports the weekly plan from the clinic with daily exercises, physiotherapy, rehab sport and orthopaedic check-ups, all with reminders. The user ticks off what has been completed each day, records pain, swelling and step count, and rates exercises from easy to strenuous. A weekly PDF overview with training frequency and progress goes to the GP, supplemented by a photo of the written notes handed out at discharge. The app deliberately gives no medical advice and only carries plan, appointments and progress; the interface is built for large type and loud reminders, so it stays usable at 68 without reading glasses.

Medication reminder app for seniors and their relatives: reminds of every dose at the set times and shows the name and a photo of the pack, in large type and with a clear signal tone. A confirmed dose is logged; if confirmation is still missing after half an hour, a short message goes to a stored contact who can then call. The medication plan fills itself by scanning the pharmacy receipt, nearly empty packs trigger a timely reorder reminder, and a weekly view matches the pre-filled pill organiser. The app gives no dosage advice, the plan comes from the prescription; in Braunschweig with seven daily preparations and unreliable mobile coverage it also works offline.

Digital vaccination pass for families with several children: keeps a separate record per family member, where old vaccination booklets are scanned page by page, vaccinations are entered with date and batch number, and next due dates are scheduled. Before trips the app shows a checklist for the destination country with recommended and still missing vaccinations; for school enrolment it produces proof listing exactly the required vaccinations. A calendar reminds one month ahead of due boosters and of appointments before kindergarten or school, and photos of signed vaccination pages are read automatically. Data transfers when the phone changes, and the proof arrives as a print-ready PDF for the suitcase or school bag; in Kiel this keeps three children's records together without paper chaos.

Diary app for people with type 2 diabetes in GP and specialist care: records blood sugar, blood pressure and weight with morning and evening reminders, entering values in two steps on a large number pad. A photo of the meal can be attached to each reading, and days with unusual blood pressure values are marked so they lead the discussion at the appointment. Corrections remain traceable with a change history, and if a day has no entry at all only a single reminder follows the next day. Before the quarterly appointment a clear PDF with weekly averages and the trend goes to the practice, including markers for high and low values; recommendations or diagnoses are deliberately not given.

Scheduling app for freelance midwives: organises due dates, weekly visit series, course evenings and on-call duties per woman in her care, all with reminders and a daily route for home visits. From calendar and week of pregnancy the app suggests suitable visit dates and flags overdue due dates so the midwife makes contact on her own initiative. Every woman has an overview page with week of pregnancy, next visit and personal wishes. After the birth a personal postpartum plan is created automatically as a PDF with checklists for the first weeks and the visiting times, and at month end the app derives an hourly statement for billing from the calendar; in Dortmund with around fourteen women a month, double bookings drop.

Ordering and checking app for hospital kitchens: every ward enters meal orders digitally and the system checks before passing them to the kitchen whether the menu matches the patient's diet form and allergies, blocking unsuitable combinations with a message. The kitchen receives a production list with quantities per dish and an automatically consolidated requirement for food ordering, each ward a daily menu as a PDF that can also be shown on info screens. Diet forms and allergen lists are maintained centrally and changes apply everywhere at once; if a component runs out, the app suggests an alternative and notifies all affected wards. Calories and main allergens appear on every dish, and a monthly evaluation shows which dishes are popular and what is left over.