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The ORICU method

A way of thinking about care.

ORICU is not a technology. It is a method — a way of reasoning about nursing care, patent-protected and replicable in any system and any artificial intelligence.

Twenty years ago, Beatrice Kalisch named something every nurse knows: missed care. Things the patient needed that never got done not out of neglect, but because the shift is a chaos of interruptions and hundreds of decisions made alone, with information scattered. A large European study confirmed this across hospitals throughout the continent. ORICU was born exactly there.

Looking at the whole person,
not fragmented.

ORICU assesses care through six pillars. None too many. None missing.

01 — 04

The patient

Four pillars assess the integral condition of the person in the bed: their body, clinical situation, comfort and safety. Everything needed to care for them well, with nothing left out. A complete view of those who need it most.

05

The family

The family is not a visitor: they are part of the patient's condition. What they know, need and feel connects directly with the previous four pillars and completes them. The fifth pillar looks to those beside the bed — and includes them.

06

The professional

The sixth pillar looks to the other side of the bed: the professional. Their workload, their training, their talent. A cared-for professional cares better — that is a central conviction of ORICU: caring for the caregiver is not an extra, it is part of the method.

What the ORICU method does

The method takes everything the assessment gathers, grounds it in scientific evidence and translates it into the standardised language of nursing — an international taxonomy any professional in the world understands. It returns it ordered and prioritised: the urgent first, the important after. Nothing lost.

Clinical decisions always remain with the professional at the patient's side. ORICU supports the information. Professional judgement belongs to those who care.

What ORICU protects

Not a technology.
A way of thinking about care.

ORICU looks like a tech product, but it is not. Technology is only the vehicle. What ORICU protects — and what is patented — is the method: a way of reasoning about nursing care, replicable in any system and any artificial intelligence, today and with whatever technology comes tomorrow.

Nursing does not merely execute. Nursing thinks — it has its own language, logic and reasoning that deserve protection, like any engineering discipline. That is what ORICU patents. And that is what never changes, regardless of the system that runs it.

The method beyond the shift

The ORICU method applies beyond the hospital. These are the digital ecosystem components that extend care when the patient returns home.

Available today

Structured post-discharge follow-up

The professional conducts a structured telephone follow-up after the patient's discharge. ORICU organises the flow, records key points and generates useful documentation for the team.

In development

Two-way alert

A direct communication channel between the clinical team and the patient's environment. When something changes, the alert reaches whoever needs to act — without intermediaries and without delay.

In development

Caregiver learning

A library of specific content for caregivers and families. Contextualised information, delivered at the right moment, so that those who care at home know how to do it well.

Available today

The feeling of not being alone

Structured post-discharge contact does not only gather information: it generates presence. The patient and their family sense that the team is still there. That has a measurable clinical and human impact.

Three ways to start

ORICU adapts to context. There is a way in that fits where you are right now.

Pilot

One service, one period, one evaluation

Implementation in a unit or service for a limited period. At the end, impact is assessed and a decision made on whether to scale. No long-term commitments.

Ideal for: ICUs, internal medicine departments, step-down units.

Institutional

The whole group, one architecture

For hospital groups wanting to implement ORICU across the board. Multi-tenant architecture, centralised management and institutional support.

Ideal for: hospital groups, health consortiums, care networks.

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