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GHandI is halfway through

News on the UK’s prinicipal shift handover research on the Centre for HCI Design, City University’s nice (no pun intended) looking blog:
“The GHandI project started in January 2007, so we are now half way through this three year EPSRC-funded project. The project team have recently completed detailed studies of clincial handover in the following settings: a [...]

Posted 14 September 2008 † Stuart § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Patient Safety Congress 2008

The Patient Safety Congress 2008 looks interesting; wonder if they’ll be anything on shift handover systems? A quick use of the search pulled up a few items, though nothing 100% specific? Maybe I missed it in the rush, though.
“This important event scheduled for 22nd - 23rd May 2008, ExCeL London, featuring presentations from policy [...]

Posted 15 November 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

NHS, and Microsoft collaborate on patient-centred design

“In this edition (click link for video) of House Calls for Healthcare Professionals, Dr. Bill Crounse and his guests discuss this collaborative initiative between the NHS, Microsoft, and the developer community to improve patient safety and end-user satisfaction with a more intuitive, standardized, and universal user interface to clinical applications.”
Other health-related news:

EPSRC call [...]

Posted 11 September 2007 † Stuart § Health § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Information technology improves communication and increases patient safety

Interesting story in Medicexchange on how communication of abnormal test results in the outpatient setting is prone to error, but using information technology can improve communication and increase patient safety, according to a study led by Hardeep Singh, MD from the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. The results appear in the Journal of the American [...]

Posted 03 August 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Handover Wednesday

If there was a case for adequate (shift) handover systems in the NHS surely today is an excellent example, as 30,000 junior doctors start on the same day.
Shift handover related reading

Posted 01 August 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Concern about USB sticks used for handovers

‘Concern about USB sticks used for handovers’ article from E-Health Insider.

And as importantly the comments themselves, so you can make up your own mind..

Posted 27 July 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The latest answer to shift handover in the NHS

Motion Computing have chosen iSoft to be the first UK-based reseller for the C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant, a rugged and washable tablet-PC style device specifically designed to provide doctors and nurses with access to updated patient records and the ability to document a patient’s condition..

Posted 19 July 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Understanding Patient Safety

Looks like a useful new book by Robert M. Wachter on patient coming out later this year [taken from Amazon]..

Posted 17 July 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Shift handover in healthcare latest

Is great to know money is being ploughed into research into shift handover systems for healthcare. But what about right now in meeting healthcare needs at a ward level? I was inspired, thanks to support from Lee at Headshift, to blog on a UKUPA presentation on shift handover systems by the Centre for HCI Design [...]

Posted 08 July 2007 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Shift handover research gets

Just stumbled across the good news that

Posted 02 June 2007 † Stuart § IT-Usability § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °