A Mobile App to Facilitate Socially Distanced Hospital Communication During COVID-19: Implementation Experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 has significantly altered health care delivery, requiring clinicians and hospitals to adapt to rapidly changing hospital policies and social distancing guidelines. At our large academic medical center, clinicians reported that existing information on distribution channels, including emails and hospital intranet posts, was inadequate to keep everyone abreast with these changes. To address these challenges, we adapted a mobile app developed in-house to communicate critical changes in hospital policies and enable direct telephonic communication between clinical team members and hospitalized patients, to support social distancing guidelines and remote rounding.

Objective

This study aimed to describe the unique benefits and challenges of adapting an app develo

SUBMITTER: Anyanwu EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7903979 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature