Bring your instructions
Choose one operation. Start with the material your practice already uses, and author it by hand or from a reviewed AI draft.
HOW IT WORKS
One pathway. Many better-organised days.
Bring the advice your practice already gives. Organise it around the operation, review it, then make it easy for each patient to find what matters today.
Review, then invite
A clinician checks and publishes the pathway. Your team adds the patient, their surgery date and sends the invitation.
Try, learn, refine
Start with a small group of patients, review recorded progress through your practice’s own routine, and tell us what to change.
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Make the advice you already give easier to find.
A pathway in your words
Arrange tasks, expectations, education and contact instructions across days or day ranges. Published versions stay fixed; moving a patient to a newer version is a deliberate action.
Five items from Dr James Doherty’s authored pathway. Select a card and use “Place selected card”, or drag it to a column. Moving a card changes only this demonstration.
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PATIENT PREVIEW
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Pack your hospital bag
What to Pack
Authored wording · demonstration placementSpare loose clothes. Pyjamas if staying the night. Phone Charger Something to read while waiting.
Choose a card, then choose its day.
Five authored items: move a card in the demonstration and see the patient preview change.
Your practice authors and reviews the clinical content.
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Give patients a calm place to start.
Today, clearly presented
Patients open a mobile web guide with their current instructions. They can revisit earlier days and see the upcoming content their practice has released. No app-store download is needed.
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EXAMPLE SURGICAL PRACTICE
Skin Cancer Procedure
Day 3 of your recovery
The early days.
What to do
What to expect
In the acute recovery phase you'll take it easy and relax at home.
What to avoid
Keep an eye on
Completed
No tasks marked complete for this day.
When to contact us
Practice contact details are not connected in this demonstration.
Your check-in
Not answered. Nothing is sent.
Not answered. Nothing is sent.
Authored pathway · draft v2 · demonstration only
Explore the days
From Dr James Doherty’s Skin Cancer Procedure, draft v2. Day ranges and wording follow the authored pathway; this is a product demonstration, not individual care instructions.
Skin Cancer Procedure: Dr James Doherty’s authored day ranges, tasks and instructions, shown from draft v2.
The guide supports your instructions; it does not replace a review appointment.
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Ask for the structured information your practice wants to record.
A simple check-in
Choose the check-in questions, their schedule and whether a reminder is sent. Answers use scales and yes/no choices, so they are quick to give and easy to read.
Try the check-in control in the patient example above.
A check-in is not a message, and submitting one does not mean someone has read it.
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Keep separate drains and their recorded volumes easy to follow.
A place for drain readings
For pathways that use drains, patients can record volumes and the practice can view trends. A marker can be set per drain; a low reading is shown for that drain.
Separate example · not part of Skin Cancer Procedure
Example drain A
Invented recorded volumes, in ml
No reading is saved. A marker is not advice to remove a drain.
Separate drain example: invented readings, independent of Skin Cancer Procedure.
A marker is not advice to remove a drain. The practice makes clinical decisions.
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Find the recorded progress behind each patient’s day.
A caseload by recovery day
Check-ins, tasks and passive flags in a list ordered by recovery day: a high pain score, a rising pain trend, three days without a recorded entry, a drain below its marker. Opening the app does not count as activity.
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Your caseload
By recovery day ↓| Patient | Day | Recorded progress |
|---|---|---|
| Taylor ExampleSkin Cancer Procedure | 1 | |
| Morgan SampleSkin Cancer Procedure | 5 | |
| Casey ExampleSkin Cancer Procedure | 3 | |
| Riley SampleSkin Cancer Procedure | 5 |
Flags are passive and not intended to replace your clinical escalation pathways.
A fictional caseload: choose a flag to read what it represents.
Flags are for review, not alerts. The absence of a flag is not an all-clear.
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Keep each hospital’s preparation instructions close to the recovery guide.
Hospital steps alongside your pathway
Attach a hospital add-on for its pre-admission steps and links beside the main pathway. It is a separate set of practice-managed content, reused across patients.
A hospital preparation card attached beside the main pathway.
An add-on does not connect to a hospital’s systems or imply its endorsement.
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Let the right people do the work they are responsible for.
A defined role for your team
Owners, clinicians and staff have defined permissions. Staff can prepare drafts, patient details and invitations; only a clinician publishes. Important changes are recorded, so the practice can see who made them.
A staff workflow: prepare the invitation; a clinician controls publication.
Your practice still sets responsibilities and the routine for reviewing patient entries.
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Find information and prepare permitted changes in plain language.
An assistant within your permissions
Ask about your practice’s own pathways and recorded values. The assistant reports and restates; it does not interpret. Changes it prepares are proposals you confirm with the same permissions as the ordinary portal.
An example proposal: move an education card to Day 2, then confirm or cancel.
It does not publish, delete patients, change billing or give clinical advice.
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Understand your data options before you begin.
A considered way to leave
A practice can export a patient’s record, or the whole practice, as a file at any time, and close the practice with a retention period it chooses. Agree who may export before you begin.
Export is an authorised practice action, not an automatic connection to another system.
Questionnaires, PROMs and REDCap are planned work, not an available integration.
THE DETAILS MATTER, TOO
Made for the everyday work
of a surgical practice.
Hospital add-ons
Each hospital’s preparation steps beside the main pathway.
Staff roles
Defined permissions for your practice team, and a record of important changes.
Email invitations
A clear starting point for the patient and one-time sign-in codes.
Drains
Readings and a trend per drain, with a practice-set marker for each.
Practice assistant
Find information; confirm permitted changes yourself.
Practice export
Your practice’s data as a file, whenever an authorised person asks.
Readable by design
Large type, clear controls and a calm patient view.
QUESTIONS
Before you begin.
The practical things a practice needs to know.
Who writes the recovery instructions?
Your practice does. You can author a pathway directly or let AI organise selected practice documents into a draft. A clinician must always review and publishes the final content.
Who reviews the patient’s check-ins?
Your practice decides who reviews recorded progress and when. rycova does not provide a monitored clinical inbox or a real-time escalation service.
What does a patient need?
An invitation from your practice, access to their email and a web browser on their phone. There is no app-store download.
Can my staff help with setup?
Yes. Staff can prepare drafts, patient details and invitations. Publishing a pathway is a clinician’s action.
Do we have to use AI?
No. Pathways can be authored entirely by hand, and the practice owner can turn AI processing off.
Does this replace our post-operative review?
No. It gives patients your instructions and records the information you ask for. Your clinical review and contact arrangements stay as they are.
What happens after hours?
Patients use the contact arrangements their practice gives them, which sit on every day’s page. Entering a check-in is not a request for help.
Which specialties is it for?
Any surgical practice or surgeon that gives recovery instructions. The pathway model is the same across specialties; the words are yours.
Does it connect to our practice software?
Not yet. Data exports are available; questionnaire and REDCap work is planned. Tell us on the form what you would need.
When can we start, and what will it cost?
Early access opens in waves. Founding pricing and terms are shared before you sign up. Joining the waitlist opens no account, starts no trial and creates no subscription.
FOUNDING PRACTICES
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