Practical Automation of Hand-off Process

Background: Hand-offs are events in which control of – or responsibility for – a patient passes from one clinician or team to another and in which important information about the patient is also exchanged. These events take place when a patient is transferred from one location (ward) to another location and/or during a clinician shift … Read more

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Clinical Message™ is an integrated capability architected to:

  1. Improve interpersonal communication
  2. Improve Care at the bedside
  3. Enhance analytics to measure care process effectiveness
  4. Implement continuous improvement and a learning organization


Clinical Message™ is a consortium of engineering and leading teaching hospital managed by QR System Inc (QRS).


CM™ Team:

  1. CM™ Team consists of Architects, Program Managers, Implementation and Clinical Staff
  2. We can help you define the Business Case and Implementation Roadmap, implement CM™, transition it to your staff and work with your staff to help create a learning organization.

Publications

  1. An Evaluation of the Use of Smartphones to Communicate Between Clinicians: A Mixed-Methods Study [read more]
  2. Understanding interprofessional communication: a content analysis of email communications between doctors and nurses [read more]
  3. The Use of Smartphones for Clinical Communication on Internal Medicine Wards [read more]
  4. Technology for Doctors: UHN in Toronto Uses Blackberry [read more]
  5. Demonstrating the BlackBerry as a Clinical Communication Tool: A Pilot Study Conducted through the Centre for Innovation in Complex Care [read more]
  6. Apples or BlackBerrys? Clinical Use and evaluation of the iPhone Platform in a BlackBerry-Dominated Hospital Environment [read more]
  7. Five Key Steps to transform Healthcare through improved communication and collaboration [read more]
  8. STANDARDIZE. AUTOMATE. REAL-TIME FEEDBACK. LEARNING CULTURE [read more]
  9. What the bleep? Pagers are slow, unreliable, and a reason for hospital deaths [read more]

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