Comparison

iScrub Lite vs CareAware Patient Flow

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

iScrub Lite

Streamline hand-hygiene compliance monitoring in healthcare settings. Record observations with time, location, and job role, and easily export data to spreadsheets for analysis. Customize lists to fit your institution's specific needs.

Highlights
  • Record hand-hygiene observations
  • Customizable locations, job types, and notes
  • Supports WHO 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene
  • PPE recommendations for isolation conditions
  • Data export to spreadsheets
  • Record facility name and coordinates
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Record hand-hygiene observations more efficiently! Failure to perform proper hand hygiene is one of the leading preventable causes of healthcare-associated infections. iScrub Lite is an application for healthcare professionals who wish to monitor hand-hygiene compliance without the time-consuming and error-prone use of clipboards and transcription. Use iScrub Lite to record observations annotated with time, location and job role. Transferring data from iScrub Lite is as easy as clicking "Email Observations". FEATURES * an intuitive interface that allows observers to quickly capture information about hand-hygiene opportunities. * iScrub Lite is customizable. You can edit the default lists of locations, job types, and observation notes to suit your institution's needs. * defaults to recording In Room / Out of Room opportunities, but also has a setting to enable observing the World Health Organization's 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene. * knows what personal protective equipment is necessary for contact, droplet, and airborne isolation conditions. * keeps a copy of the last 5 sets of observation data and can resend the corresponding emails. * exports a spreadsheet compatible with popular spreadsheet applications (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, or OpenOffice.org Calc) whether you are on a Mac or PC. * record facility name and latitude longitude coordinates of observations. We're always looking to improve our application. Please e-mail iscrub@swipesense.com with any specific requirements that your institution would find useful. iScrub is brought to you by SwipeSense, a pioneer of electronic hand hygiene monitoring technologies.

About

CareAware Patient Flow

This app streamlines environmental services and transport workflows in healthcare settings. It automates job assignments, allows efficient management of tasks and team member status, and provides timely notifications for job updates. The design enhances visibility of job details within list views.

Highlights
  • Automated job assignments
  • Accept, reject, delay, start, and complete jobs
  • Manage team member availability status
  • Job update notifications
  • View job details in context
  • Cancel jobs (permission-based)
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Capacity Management: EVS (Environmental Services) and Transport solution supports fast, easy and smart workflows for the EVS and Transport processes in CareAware Patient Flow. This solution provides the EVS or Transport worker the ability to manage their job queue, which results in a more efficient Transport process and optimizes Bed turnover. • Automated job assignments are pushed to a Team member based on their zone assignments. • Efficient Management of job assignments, including the ability to: Accept, Reject, Delay, Start, and Complete job assignments. • Efficient Management of a Team Member's status: On Break, On Lunch, Unavailable, and Available. • Notifications Management, including the ability to have the device chime/vibrate when a modification is made to an assigned job, a new job is assigned, or an existing job is unassigned. Notification type is dependent on device capability. • The CareAware Patient Flow mobile design has been enhanced to enable the ability to view job details in context of the List page when the job is selected. • Notification reminders will occur every 5 minutes, up to an 2 hours, until the mobile app is unlocked. • The 5 minute notification reminder will be reset to 0 with each job change. • If a job is Assigned and Accepted to a Personnel and then that Personnel updates their Availability Status to 'Unavailable', 'Break, or 'Lunch', the system will Undo Start the job and Unaccept the job. • If a job is Assigned and Accepted by multiple Personnel and then one or many Personnel update their Availability Status to 'Unavailable', 'Break, or 'Lunch', the system will unassign the job from those Personnel that changed their Availability Status, but the job will stay Started and will remain Accepted for the Personnel that did not change their Availability status from 'Available'. • The ability to Cancel a job from the mobile application now exists. This capability is permission based.

Screenshots

iScrub Lite4 screens
CareAware Patient Flow3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: iScrub Lite at 2.8 against CareAware Patient Flow's 1.0. iScrub Lite also leads on review sentiment (29% vs 0%) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). On in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iScrub Lite holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iScrub Lite has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of iScrub Lite's written reviews are positive against 0% of CareAware Patient Flow's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iScrub Lite versus CareAware Patient Flow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriScrub LiteCareAware Patient Flow
Price—Free — better
Rating2.8 (13 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better1
Update frequency—Every 5 months
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Devices—iPhone — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSwipeSense, Inc.Cerner Corporation

Customer experience

iScrub Lite

All ratings13 ratings
Positive38.5%
Neutral23.1%
Negative38.5%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative57.1%

CareAware Patient Flow

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

iScrub Lite

No in-app purchases

None

CareAware Patient Flow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iScrub Lite free?
Pricing for iScrub Lite is not currently listed on the App Store.
Is CareAware Patient Flow free?
CareAware Patient Flow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iScrub Lite or CareAware Patient Flow?
iScrub Lite is rated higher. iScrub Lite averages 2.8 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while CareAware Patient Flow averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.

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