The smartphone or tablet app, called the First Five Minutes app, was launched as a collaboration between University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s App Brewery, Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. For the project, the App Brewery — which employs six undergraduate and graduate students — coded the app, while Medical College of Wisconsin provided funding and owns the intellectual property, according to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Physicians input the child’s age or weight to receive a chart with standardized medication doses. The goal is to decrease response time; previously, providers would have had to calculate the dosage themselves or relied on their memory. Although the app is in a limited trial run, according to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, its collaborators expect it to be publicly available later this year.
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