Can a secure messaging app improve the communication of diagnostic imaging results to inform diagnosis and treatment?
Delays and errors in communicating diagnostic information between clinicians can – and do – result in serious consequences.
The challenge of communicating diagnostic information is magnified in the Emergency Department (ED) due to time pressures, distractions, information inaccessibility and the likelihood of patients leaving hospital before test results are returned.
The aim of this project was to test the effectiveness of an app-based system – myBeepr – for communicating urgent and critical diagnostic information.