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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, changes and improvements regarding the organization have been made to adapt quickly at the Emergency Department (ED) of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina. This article describes the design, implementation, and use of an electronic dashboard which provided monitoring of patients discharged home, during follow-up with telehealth. It was useful to access essential information to organize and coordinate professional work and patients' surveillance, providing highly relevant data in real-time as proxy variables for quality and safety during home isolation. The implemented tool innovated in the integration of technologies within a real context. The information management was crucial to optimize services and decision-making, as well to guarantee safety for healthcare workers and patients.
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COVID-19 , Telemedicine , Emergency Service, Hospital , Humans , Outpatients , Pandemics , Quality of Health CareABSTRACT
With the adoption of Personal Health Records (PHRs) integrated with Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and the increase of accessibility to data, institutions have the possibility of exchanging medical information with their patients. Involving the patient reported data has the potential to improve the quality of care and safety and create a feedback loop between patients and health professionals. The objective of this study is to describe a user-centered design of a module for medication list with reconciliation functionalities managed by the patients themselves, and connected to their EHR for supervision and medical validation. We conducted 42 interviews (31 patients and 11 general practitioners). From the interviews, we performed qualitative analysis and extracted the main findings from comments in both groups. Correctitude rate was 57 to 100%, and satisfaction of use (SUS) maximum was 96% and 92%. These findings may be relevant to patients, health care providers, and policymakers.
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Health Records, Personal , Medication Reconciliation , Electronic Health Records , Health Personnel , HumansABSTRACT
Pragmatic randomized trials are essential to improve knowledge of real world clinical practice. Pragmatic trials design reflect routine clinical care, which have advantages to initiate and conduct, compared to classical clinical trials. Trials help to: engage bedside clinicians, increase efficiency of patient recruitment and follow up, minimize loss to follow up and include technological patient reported outcomes. The objective is to describe the opportunities and challenges designing a specialized software to administrate pragmatic randomized trials.
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Pragmatic Clinical Trials as Topic , Research Design , Software , Humans , Patient SelectionABSTRACT
Over 3 million hospitalizations and 17 million ER visits occur in Canada each year. A substantial proportion of these encounters are preventable and attributable to medication non- adherence. Non-adherence to medication changes during discharge increases the risk of adverse events post-discharge. A mobile application was developed to improve medication management of post-discharge patients. A pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted to assess the application's usability and efficacy in decreasing non-adherence to medication changes made at discharge.
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Mobile Applications , Patient Discharge , Canada , Humans , Medication Adherence , Pilot ProjectsABSTRACT
Technology has led to the communication of the hospitalized patient and their family with clinical knowledge. The objective of this study is to describe the rate of use of the Inpatient Personal Health Record of Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. A cross-sectional study was conducted between May and September of 2018. The rate of use was 2.10% (95% CI 1.89-2.32). The most used functionalities were analyzed. New strategies are needed to improve the rate of use.
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Inpatients , Patient Portals , Cross-Sectional Studies , Electronic Health Records , Health Records, Personal , HumansABSTRACT
Tecnologias de comunicação tais como a telemedicina, fornecer alternativas para a comunicação médico-paciente. Pacientes cada vez mais, médicos e instituições que utilizam essa mídia para consulta. A consulta assíncrona requer serviço de encaminhamento Guardado e saúde informações do paciente para o especialista. Este estudo descreve a concepção e implementação de um serviço de próxima consulta assíncrona dermatológica usando o Registros Eletrônicos de Saúde e Registros de Saúde Pessoal interação no Hospital Universitário.
Las tecnologías de la comunicación aplicadas a la salud, como la Telemedicina, proporcionan alternativas para la comunicación médico paciente. Cada vez son más los pacientes, médicos e instituciones que utilizan este medio para realizar una consulta. La consulta asincrónica requiere de un servicio de Guardado y Reenvío de información desalud por parte del paciente hacia el médico especialista. Este estudio describe el diseño y próxima implementación deun servicio de consulta asincrónica dermatológica que utiliza la interacción de la Historia Clínica Electrónica (HCE) yPortal Personal de Salud (PoPes) en un Hospital Universitario.
