HCPro.com: Patient Safety Staff Challenge: Global Edition

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August 5, 2008 (Volume 2, Issue 16)

Sydney company creates software to increase better communication among healthcare workers
Handing over a patient to the next healthcare provider is an important time to communicate vital information about the patient, and a Sydney-based company has designed software to help ensure that happens, reports the Australian. Smart Services CRC has developed an early version of a software dubbed "THOMM." It allows healthcare professionals to write notes on an electronic bedside tablet. The software is similar to electronic health records, but also ranks patients and tasks by urgency, creating a systematic list to review during a patient hand off, according to the Australian. A Royal Australasian College of Physicians survey published last year in the Medical Journal of Australia found that only 58% of the 53 Australian hospitals surveyed followed the Australian Medical Association’s guidelines for effective handovers. To read more, click here.

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