aidminutes.anamnesis

Multilingual Anamnesis

for medical practices, medical care centers, hospitals and clinics

Developed and evaluated with the Center for General and Family Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen.

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aidminutes.anamnesis for smartphones and tablets

Simply AnamnesisEvaluated and proven in practice in 30+ languages

Algorithm-based query
38 structured complaint queries
Supplementary queries, including allergies, alcohol/drug/smoking use, high blood pressure, and diabetes
23 short queries for secondary symptoms
Summary of results (synopsis) in doctor’s letter format
Easy data transfer into any practice management system (PVS) via QR code scan

Overcome language barriers in your general practice. Patients are guided through a symptom-based medical history in over 30 languages while still in the waiting room. You receive the results in the form of a “doctor’s letter” for direct integration into your practice management system.

In cooperation with the Association of General Practitioners in Lower Saxony and the Center for General and Family Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen.

Does an app make patients happy?

A new scientific paper on the DASI study is now publicly available. Its findings send a strong signal for digital support in healthcare delivery.

The cluster-randomized study investigated the impact of a digital medical history app on patient satisfaction in out-of-hours primary care practices. The app, developed and provided by aidminutes, guided patients through their symptoms in a structured and easy-to-understand way before their consultation, and then presented the information clearly for use during medical treatment.

The result: patients who used the app rated their care significantly higher than patients receiving standard care. The intervention group performed better in 12 out of 17 satisfaction dimensions examined; significantly higher satisfaction was also found in the areas of communication, medical care, and information and support. For us, this is an important confirmation: digital medical history-taking can be more than process optimization. It can better prepare patients, provide physicians with more targeted information, and make care feel meaningfully more patient-centered.

The full BMC Health Services Research paper is publicly available via SpringerNature ShareIt.

This app makes doctors happyWhy aidminutes.anamnesis saves time — and improves the quality of care at the same time.

aidminutes.anamnesis helps physicians, nursing staff, and therapists collect important health information before the consultation — structured, multilingual, and without any additional IT setup.

Patients scan a QR code in the waiting room using their own smartphone and complete the anamnesis in their native language: symptoms, allergies, medications, previous illnesses, and prior treatments. The result is summarised in German and transferred directly into the patient record using a standard QR scanner.

Currently 33 languages are supported, including Arabic with right-to-left display. The questionnaire is algorithm-based: only questions that are medically relevant given the patient’s previous answers are asked. This keeps the anamnesis precise — and the information density high.

What does this look like in practice? At an online information event hosted by HÄVN — Hausärztinnen und Hausärzte Verband Niedersachsen — aidminutes.anamnesis was demonstrated live, including a complete multilingual anamnesis transferred into the patient record in real time. The feedback and enthusiasm from one of the attending physicians was unambiguous: “I know this would have saved me two hours of work yesterday.”

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Special offer for members of the Association of General Practitioners in Lower Saxony

3 month trial

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€ 289/year

equiv. to 24,09 €/month

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FAQQuestions about aidminutes.anamnesis

Has the app been evaluated in clinical trials, and are there publications about it? Has the app been evaluated in clinical trials, and are there publications about it?
Two extensive studies were successfully completed with aidminutes.anamnesis together with the Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen:
1. DASI – Digitally assisted system to obtain patients‘ medical history before consultation, 2020-2024 (DRKS00026659 im Deutschen Register Klinischer Studien) funded by Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss (G-BA), Förderkennzeichen 01VSF19050
2. Friedland Study – Digital communication assistance tool for non-German speaking patients in border refugee camp Friedland - a feasibility study, 2017-2019 (DRKS00013076 im Deutschen Register Klinischer Studien)
Publications (selection):

Concordance of data collected by an app for medical history taking and in-person interviews from patients in primary care (7.10.2024)

Usability of an App for Medical History Taking in General Practice From the Patients’ Perspective - Cross-Sectional Study (5.1.2024)

Evaluating an app for digital medical history taking in urgent care practices: study protocol of the cluster-randomized interventional trial ‚DASI’ (27.4.2023)
Gesundheitswesen 2022: Benutzerfreundlichkeit einer Anamnese-App für die primärärztliche Versorgung aus Sicht der Patient*innen
How do I receive the results from the aidminutes anamnesis process? How do I receive the results from the aidminutes anamnesis process?

The results of the structured, complaint-specific patient history questionnaire are precisely summarized in a medical report-like format—without any interpretation or filtering of the patient’s input. Information provided in other languages is shown in German. (Currently only German translation of the summary is available; English is in development and will be available shortly.)

At the end of the questionnaire, simply import the result into your practice management system (PMS) using a QR code (see the relevant FAQ for details). This way, the text is immediately available in the consultation room for the patient discussion. Alternatively you can review the summary directly on the tablet with the app. From there, you can print it or save it as a PDF file.
Can I integrate the aidminutes.anamnesis app into my PMS? Can I integrate the aidminutes.anamnesis app into my PMS?

Yes, easily—without requiring a special interface or a specific PMS. At the end of the anamnesis, the patient presents the result as a QR code on his mobile or on your tablet at reception. You can scan the code using a standard barcode scanner (in the same way as in Germany with the electronic medication plan, eMP).

Simply place the text input cursor in the corresponding field of the patient record and scan the code. Since the scanner simulates keyboard input, integration is possible with any PMS.
What should I look for in a scanner to ensure it correctly reads the QR code from the app? What should I look for in a scanner to ensure it correctly reads the QR code from the app?

The only requirement is that the scanner supports the DataMatrix format — the same format used by the QR code of the electronic medication plan. Therefore, make sure that the product description explicitly lists DataMatrix as a supported format.

A specific example for comparison is the NetumScan NSL5, which we have used ourselves for testing purposes. Scanners like this can be found online starting at around €35.
Punctuation marks and umlauts in the German synopsis are not displayed correctly in the synoptic view. What can I do? Punctuation marks and umlauts in the German synopsis are not displayed correctly in the synoptic view. What can I do?

In this case, you need to change the output format of your scanner. Many devices are set to the ASCII standard for the international market, which represents the US-american keyboard layout QWERTY. It does not know German umlauts and swaps Y and Z.

In the scanner’s manual, you will find a barcode or QR code for this purpose. Scan this code once to switch the format. A beep will confirm that the scan was successful. The corresponding setting is usually called “Keyboard Language” or “Keyboard Layout.”
What should I do if a patient has trouble using the app? What should I do if a patient has trouble using the app?

The app is designed to be intuitive. The initial language selection ensures that all elements are displayed in the chosen language.

If difficulties arise, you can temporarily switch to “Show in German” via the menu (three horizontal bars icon in the title bar). This allows you to better understand the current process and then switch back to the selected language.

If the tablet is returned with the questionnaire not yet completed, you can retrieve the “Synopsis” from the menu and cancel the process. Since incomplete information is not suitable for the patient record, the QR code for PMS import will be skipped—this is indicated in the summary. In this case, start a new session using “New Case ID.”