Altai Oncology Suite

The Altai Oncology Suite (ALTAI) is a chemotherapy and practice management software designed to streamline oncology workflow in hospitals and cancer centers. According to the vendor, the software is tailored for oncologists, hematologists, nurses, pharmacists, and administrators in the healthcare industry. It aims to enhance patient safety, improve efficiency in chemotherapy ordering and administration, and facilitate practice management tasks.

Key Features

Chemotherapy Ordering: According to the vendor, the Altai Oncology Suite automatically calculates and updates drug doses and infusion rates. It offers a library of over 400 protocols for easy selection and provides an order validation engine to double-check doses and detect drug interactions and allergies.

Patient Safety: The software incorporates a patient-drug matching system through QR coded labels and bracelets, which the vendor claims helps prevent medication errors and enhances patient safety.

Patient Records: The Altai Oncology Suite allows access to comprehensive patient records anywhere in the world. It provides demographics, diagnoses, treatment history, and notes, and streamlines workflow by displaying active chemotherapy orders, diagnosis/stage, lab results, and chemotherapy flowsheet on one screen.

Practice Management: The software offers modules for scheduling appointments, managing bills, and keeping a drug inventory. According to the vendor, it allows customization of settings, warnings, templates, forms, and protocols. It can integrate with existing electronic health record (EHR) systems or be used as a standalone EHR software.

Clinical Research: According to the vendor, the Altai Oncology Suite supports clinical trial recruitment and research administration. It enables building clinical pathways to direct treatment and encourage clinical trial participation, and facilitates data collection for cancer registries and prospective research studies.

Extensive and regularly updated chemo protocol library: The software offers one of the largest protocol libraries in the industry, covering treatment regimens. According to the vendor, it includes references and indications for each protocol and is promptly updated to reflect the latest FDA approvals and guideline changes.

Print Chemo orders, prescriptions, IV bag labels, and more: The Altai Oncology Suite allows users to print chemotherapy orders, prescriptions for medications, IV bag labels for pharmacy and nursing use, and patient- and protocol-specific consent forms and education materials with just one click, according to the vendor.

Protect your data: According to the vendor, the Altai Oncology Suite ensures the security of patients' data by storing it in secure cloud servers with zero downtime. The software employs a user-friendly and robust two-factor authentication methodology and encrypted-communication protocol to prevent unauthorized access and eavesdropping attacks. The vendor states that users' data is not shared or sold to third parties.

Nullifying ‘bad readability’ - a crucial cause in more than half of prescription errors: The software addresses prescription errors caused by poor readability by providing electronic chemotherapy order entry, eliminating the need for handwritten prescriptions and improving the overall accuracy and legibility of chemotherapy orders, according to the vendor.

Matching patients with their drugs and respective administration details through IV bag labels: The Altai Chemo Planner allows for the printing of IV bag labels, which the vendor claims helps accurately match patients with their prescribed drugs and respective administration details, thus improving medication safety.