The iPad app T6 is helping healthcare providers harness the power of real-time information. The emergency line at Cohen Children's Medical Centres in New York City receives the following call: A 7-year-old boy who has been hit by a car is being transported by EMS. To respond, a 12-person Level I trauma team was activated. There's a new tool in the team's toolbox as they assemble and prepare for the patient's arrival. T6 is a cutting-edge app that runs exclusively on iPad and uses data to provide medical professionals with real-time feedback while administering life-saving trauma care. T6 enables medical teams to input and analyse patient data in real-time using an iPad. Data such as vitals and injury details are entered into the app in a hospital setting and displayed on a large screen for the entire trauma team to see, along with standard-of-care guidelines and alerts. The iPad app will allow real-time virtual communication between the person administering care and a trauma team in another location while in the field, whether in an ambulance or medical helicopter or if T6 is being used by a military team or medic. 

Col. Omar Bholat, a trauma surgeon with Northwell Health, has spent the last 20 years in the Army reserves, serving on six combat tours. He's started getting T6 training ahead of its launch at the hospital where he works. 

The future is to continue leveraging this technology in various parts of patient care — not just Level I trauma centres, but also Level IIs and IIIs — to create pathways for that data to flow seamlessly from point to point. 

The T6 app is already in use at two Northwell Health Level I trauma centres, with a full rollout planned for the end of 2022.