The Preliminary Outcome of Applying a Patient Transportation Management System for Non-Emergency Intra-Hospital Transportation of Patients.

In Taiwan, the safety of intra-hospital patient transportation (IHT) is an important issue of patient safety. However, the effects on the quality of patient transportation and the results of patient safety in applying informatics and communication technology were less discussed. The purpose of this study is aimed to understand the current status of IHT events through the patient transportation management system as a reference for further improving the IHT quality.

A Customized Workflow-Driven Instant Messaging System Support Team Communication in the Hospital.

Effective communication among the healthcare team is a very important skill to support team resource management (TRM). However, we take too much effort to connect with other team members by using traditional telephone communication. In this study, we developed an instant messaging system embedded in the original hospital information system and evaluated the preliminary outcome and the usage of the system.

The relationship of learning motivation, achievement and satisfaction for nurses learning simple excel VBA information systems programming.

This study aims to understand the relationship between participating nurses' motivation, achievement and satisfaction before and after they learned to program in Excel Visual Basic for Applications (Excel VBA). We held a workshop to train nurses in developing simple Excel VBA information systems to support their clinical or administrative practices. Before and after the workshop, the participants were evaluated on their knowledge of Excel VBA, and a questionnaire was given to survey their learning motivation and satisfaction. Statistics softwares Winsteps and SPSS were used for data analysis. Results show that the participants are more knowledgeable about VBA as well as more motivated in learning VBA after the workshop. Participants were highly satisfied with the overall arrangement of the workshop and instructors, but didn't have enough confidence in promoting the application of Excel VBA themselves. In addition, we were unable to predict the participants' achievement by their demographic characteristics or pre-test motivation level.

Developing and applying a cross-disciplinary team handover information system.

In order to avoid medical errors, it is very important to communicate with the medical team correctly, timely and efficiently. One of main reasons for the poor outcome of multidisciplinary handover in hospital is lacking effective tools for multidisciplinary handover. The project aimed to develop a workflow-based multidisciplinary handover information system, integrated with medical record browsing, multidisciplinary handover and event tracking, to improve the correctness and effectiveness of communication among the medical team members.