About The Vitals Buddy
Digital Notepad for Human Vitals
The Vitals Buddy is a digital notepad designed for assisting health care professionals to
document notes from patients in the healthcare environment.
It was designed to be implemented using spreadsheet technology, in particular
Microsoft Excel with a compatible Google Sheets version.
The healthcare professional makes notes on a patient’s current functions reducing memory
recall and or lost of paper documentation. For the novice professional, there are prompts to
assist with interpreting the collected data.
Family members as well as patients have found The Vitals Buddy helpful with
organizing their care and progress.
Visualizing trends in patient performance becomes easier while
increasing confidence in data collection.
The Construction of The Vitals Buddy
The SLUMS toolkit includes an interactive environment using spreadsheets for
The Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) Exam
and provides different data views of the assessment tool while increasing efficiency.
The BIMS toolkit includes an interactive environment using spreadsheets for
the Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS)
to reduce computational errors and increase efficiency.
