FITOS = FRACTURE IDENTIFIATION TOOL FOR ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS

FITOS makes it easy for orthopaedic surgeons to identify patients who are at risk of further fragility fractures.

FITOS helps surgeons meet their blue book requirements, implement NICE Falls guidelines and  NICE fracture guidelines and the NSF for older people with little effort, and dispelling the myth that orthopaedic surgeons are not interested in fragility fractures.

Benefits

• FITOS uses text recognition software on letters typed by orthopaedic secretaries to identify all postmenopausal women who have attended fracture clinic with low impact fractures.
• FITOS automatically generates advice to GPs and/or patients in line with NICE recommendations.
• FITOS provides audit information (management report) on all patients attending fracture clinic.
• FITOS software is fully automated, quick and easy without increasing your workload.
• FITOS comes with support / training from our skilled team of professionals.

Outputs from FITOS

Letters
All you have to do is create or write your letters as usual. Once you have finished, print the letter as normal. FITOS will then scan the letter for information or keywords to determine whether the patient is considered to be at risk. If found to be at risk; FITOS will insert advice for the patient which will be printed at the bottom of the letter or on a new page.

Reports
FITOS generates a comprehensive report which list patients who have been identified to be at risk of future fracture, This report can either be printed or e-mailed from the reports section on the main menu.

Extensive support services

Installation and calibration
FITOS can be installed quickly and easily by one of our IT professionals. The software then needs to be calibrated to the letter layout that your establishment usually create. Whether your letters are generated from a template or completely hand written, you can tell FITOS where to find particular patient information from them.  This step should only need to be done once, but will need to be repeated if the letter layout is changed in the future.

Training
Comprehensive training is given to every user and is included in the price of the software. Refresher training is given where necessary. Each trainee requires a computer for training. Please see the costs section for training prices.

Follow-up
Full follow-up support is provided 37 hours per week for every site free of charge. Any issues or queries you may have will be answered immediately or within a 48-hour period if they are more in-depth. Email and telephone support is available along with a discussion forum where users can contact each other and discuss issues or assessments etc.