Draft pending legal review. This page describes how the platform is built today; the binding version will be published before general availability.
Education, not clinical advice
Imedica, including its scenarios, scores, debriefs, the Field Notes blog and the mobile apps, is an educational tool for trained health professionals and students under supervision. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose or treat anyone, and nothing in it is medical advice for a particular patient.
Your directives come first
Drugs, doses, thresholds and procedures differ between provinces, services and base hospitals, and they change. In practice, always follow your service's medical directives, base hospital orders, provincial standards and your own clinical judgement. Where Imedica differs from them, they are right.
Simulated patients
Scenarios are simplified simulations. Real patients present differently, deteriorate on their own timelines and respond to treatment in ways a scenario can't capture. A good score in Imedica is evidence of practice, not of competence or certification, unless your service has formally recognized it as such.
ECG recordings
Most rhythms on the scenario monitor are real lead II recordings from the PTB-XL ECG database (Wagner et al., Scientific Data 7, 154, 2020), published on PhysioNet under the CC BY 4.0 licence. We trimmed each recording to whole beats and may play it slightly faster or slower to match the scenario's heart rate. VF and asystole are drawn, not recorded.
AI-written explanations
Debrief explanations are written by an AI model from the physician-written rules and your decisions. The model can't change a score, and physicians review explanations, but AI text can still be wrong. If an explanation conflicts with the rule or with your directives, trust the rule and the directives, and tell us.
Field Notes articles
Blog articles are general education and cite their sources. Each is reviewed by a physician; an article still awaiting that review says so at the end. None of them is a substitute for formal training or for local protocols.
In an emergency
Imedica is not a way to get help. In an emergency, call 911.
Questions
If you think something in Imedica is clinically wrong, email hi@imedica.tech and a physician on our team will look at it.