Minze Homeflow with Automated Digital Voiding Diary and Patient App
Minze Homeflow for Uroflowmetry at Home
Minze Homeflow is a powerful tool for diagnosing and monitoring patients with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) at home. It's particularly beneficial for patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) and Bladder Outlet Obstruction (BOO).
- Minze Homeflow allows patients to collect uroflowmetry measurements from the comfort of their own homes.
- It provides clinicians with real-world insights into their patients’ lifestyle and urologic health, enabling them to educate patients on symptom progression and treatment impact.
- For example, BPH patients can use Minze Homeflow and the Minze Patient app to complete the IPSS questionnaire, perform multiple voids, and record information on liquid consumption—all from home before visiting their clinicians.
- The system integrates with an Automated Voiding Diary and Minze Patient app, helping clinicians manage their workflow more efficiently, save time, and improve productivity.
Minze Homeflow, equipped with Bluetooth, is a user-friendly uroflowmeter designed for home use by patients with LUTS, under remote supervision by clinicians. It fits on any standard toilet, collects multiple flow measurements, and integrates uroflowmetry with an automated bladder diary in one test. This provides comprehensive insights needed for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning.
Minze Homeflow offers a novel approach to diagnosing and monitoring adults and children with voiding disorders. Extensively tested in clinical environments, it enhances clinical performance and helps improve patient care standards.
Minze Homeflow is ideal for use in community care clinics, family doctors’ surgeries, pelvic floor clinics, physiotherapy clinics, and hospitals offering remote patient assessment and monitoring. It is available through the NHS Shared Business Services and directly from Win Health Medical.
Please note: Minze Homeflow cannot be sold online. Please contact us for pricing and further information.
Minze Homeflow Overview
- Designed for home use, under remote management by a clinician
- Equipped with Bluetooth
- Fits on any standard home toilet
- Easy to use for both patients and clinicians
- Provides comprehensive data for diagnosis and treatment
- Performs automatic patient identification
- Facilitates remote consultations and follow-up
- Tracks patient progress across multiple flow measurements
- Integrates uroflowmetry with automated bladder diaries
- Supports natural voiding positions for men, women, and children
- Collects multiple flows in a natural, stress-free environment
- Captures data reflective of natural voiding patterns, including nighttime voids
- Allows assessment of variability across multiple measurements
- Connects with the Minze Patient app on iOS and Android devices
- Offers options to collect uroflowmetry data alone or combined with an automated bladder diary
- Automatically processes data on the Clinician Portal, including visualization of voiding diaries
- Provides 24/7 access to real-time data via the Clinician Portal
- Ensures all data is encrypted for transfer and storage
- Separates personal and health data on secure servers for added security
- Reusable components with low to intermediate disinfection requirements
- Classified as a Class 1m Medical Device (CE1639), FDA cleared
- Comes with a 1-year warranty
More About Minze Homeflow
Minze Homeflow operates via the Minze app, a mobile application on smartphones. The app allows patients to interact with the uroflowmeter and maintain a voiding diary, if necessary. Data is encrypted and transmitted to the cloud, where it is stored on the Clinician Portal for 24/7 access by clinicians.
- Clinicians can select the most appropriate accessories for each patient, ensuring the data collected is relevant and representative of natural urinary symptoms. This data is crucial for diagnosis, treatment reviews, and long-term management.
- If a voiding diary is needed, patients use the Minze app to answer questions with each void, providing supplementary information about factors like urgency, voiding reasons, and liquid intake. This data is accessible to clinicians in real-time via the online portal.
Minze Homeflow connects to the Minze Patient app via Bluetooth. The app offers two options: 1) uroflowmetry only, where the device registers volume, time, and flow, or 2) uroflowmetry combined with an automated bladder diary, where additional information like liquid intake and leakage episodes is recorded.
The system captures Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (ePROMs) to gather valuable patient feedback. Data is securely stored on a GDPR and HIPAA-compliant cloud portal, ensuring confidentiality and security. Clinicians can access the data anytime, providing real-time insights for diagnosis and treatment.
How Minze Homeflow Works
Minze Homeflow uses Bluetooth Low Energy Technology and an internet connection (Wi-Fi or mobile) to transmit encrypted data from the uroflowmeter to the Minze Patient app and the online Clinician Portal. The Minze app runs on iOS and Android devices, enabling seamless data transfer and storage.
The uroflowmeter includes a weight transducer (load cell) to measure volume and flow rates over time. It also features presence detection and accelerometer sensors for accurate and reliable measurements.
An NFC tag on the cup automatically identifies patients, ensuring that data is specific to each individual. The reusable Homeflow cup is assigned to a single patient, and its data is uniquely identifiable by the NFC reader in the uroflowmeter.
Minze Homeflow is easy to use and provides comprehensive data for diagnostic and treatment purposes. It enables home-based uroflowmetry and bladder diary tests, facilitating remote patient assessment, treatment, and monitoring.
Data can be exported from the Clinician Portal to patient-centered Electronic Health Records (EHR), allowing other authorized health professionals to access a broader picture of the patient’s medical history and treatment pathway.
Minze Homeflow and its accessories are classified as Non-Critical Patient-Care Items requiring low to intermediate disinfection. Manufacturer cleaning and disinfection recommendations are provided in the Instructions for Use (IFU). It is recommended that patients keep the device clean during home use, with thorough cleaning performed upon return to the supervising clinician.
Minze Homeflow – A novel uroflowmeter and automated bladder diary for home use by men, women, and children with voiding disorders, managed by clinicians specializing in urology and pelvic health.