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S42: 6 Requirements for Patient
Hand-Off Application in Hospital
Setting: Lesson Learned from
TaskList Project
Soleh Al Ayubi, PhD
Innovation Group
Boston Children’s Hospital
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Learning Objectives
• Understand the underlying reasons to
implement well-designed application to
support patient hand-off processes.
• Understand the 6 important user
requirements of application to support patient
hand-off processes.
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TaskList Pilot
Pilot-1
• November 2013
• 2 Weeks - 7W Unit
• Technological issues
• Identified strong clinical
champions
• Busy periods for the
unit
• Complex Unit
Pilot-2
• May 2014
• 2 Weeks – 9E Unit
• Team engaged
• Works better for a team
geographically
distributed
• More integration with
EMRs and team
calendar
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6 Requirements for Patient Hand-Off
Application in Hospital Setting: Lesson
Learned from TaskList Project
Questions
Thank you!
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Notas del editor
After participating in this activity, the learner should be better able to
Medical team members have many tasks, divide their attention between multiple tasks and patients, and have high demands around communication and documentation.
Miscommunications among medical team members are a leading cause of medical errors.
Paper check lists.
Check lists in EMRs (often lack mobile, live-tracking components).
Non-EMR check list applications (not have required security or privacy controls, may not be integrated with EMRs, and may not be supported by local institutions)