Streamlining Care in Crisis: Rapid Creation and Implementation of a Digital Support Tool for COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in rapidly evolving best practices for transmission reduction, diagnosis, and treatment. A regular influx of new information has upended traditionally static hospital protocols, adding additional stress and potential for error to an already overextended system. To help equip frontline emergency clinicians with up-to-date protocols throughout the evolving COVID-19 crisis, our team set out to create a dynamic digital tool that centralized and standardized resources from a broad range of platforms across our hospital. Using a design thinking approach, we rapidly built, tested, and deployed a solution using simple, out-of-the-box web technology that enables clinicians to access the specific information they seek within moments. This platform has

SUBMITTER: Stark N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7514410 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature