Introduction
The PainChek Mobile Application assists healthcare workers and carers in assessing the levels of pain in non-communicative patients with cognitive impairment, especially those with dementia.
PainChek uses facial recognition technology to detect facial cues indicative of the presence of pain and then combines these with non-facial pain cues to assess a pain severity score.
This guide documents the use of the PainChek App.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for use by any person using the PainChek Mobile app.
NB: See the "WAP User Guide” for the instructions on how to use the corresponding Web Administration Portal web site.
Glossary
Term | Description |
|---|---|
Patient | For the purpose of this user guide and to avoid any ambiguity, the term patient will be applied for anyone on which the app may be used. The term patient encompasses residents and clients or anyone for whom a pain assessment is being carried out. Within an installation of the PainChek app users can select what terminology they would like to use, patient, resident or client. |
Resident | See Patient |
Client | See Patient |
Admin | Admin accounts are only available for PainChek commercial licenses. Admins have access to all of the functionalities on the Mobile App. |
Institution | Institutions include hospitals, aged care facilities, primary care centres (e.g. GP practices or outpatient clinics). |
User | The person utilising the PainChek Mobile App to assess patients, residents or clients. User accounts are only available for PainChek commercial licenses. Users have access to all of the functionalities on the Mobile App |
Commercial License | Type of license giving access to all of the functionalities on the Mobile App and the Web Admin Portal including creating users with specific roles. |
Private License | Type of license giving access to all of the functionalities on the Mobile App with restricted uses of the Web Admin Portal. It excludes creating additional users. |
App | An iOS app that runs on a device that enables a user to perform pain assessments and other PainChek Adult functions |
Web Admin Portal | A website that allows a user to perform administration functions of the PainChek system |
WAP | See Web Admin Portal |
Device | A supported Apple device running the PainChek app |
TGA | Therapeutic Goods Administration (https://www.tga.gov.au/tga-basics) |
PainChek | Means PainChek Adult |
PainChek Adult | A system intended to be used to assess and monitor pain in people who cannot verbalise such as people with dementia or communication difficulties. The major components are the App and the Web Admin Portal |
App Store | The Apple app store used to download and install apps on iOS devices |
Manual Facial Assessment | An assessment of a patient where the user evaluates if the 9 items in the “facial domain” are present or absent without the use of the in-app facial recognition |
Automated Facial Assessment | Assessment of a patient where the PainChek app evaluates if the 9 items in the “facial domain” are present or absent using the in-app facial recognition |
Domain | One of 6 areas that the PainChek app assesses for a patient – the 6 domains are being: “The Face”, “The Voice”, “The Movement”, “The Behaviour”, “The Activity”, “The Body” |
Compliance Information
PainChek Adult is a certified Class I medical device, with CE Marking and TGA Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG) inclusion
Item | Symbol | Details |
|---|---|---|
Manufacturer and Australian Sponsor |
| PainChek Ltd Sydney NSW 2000, AUSTRALIA |
Authorised European Representative |  | Priory Analysts Ltd The Pinnacle 160 Midsummer Boulevard Milton Keynes MK9 1FF United Kingdom |
Device Identifier |
| PainChek Adult |
Year of manufacture |
| 2017 |
CE marking |
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Serial Number |  | Refer to the product version number displayed on the iOS app login page |
