Johns Hopkins to launch checklist app pilot
Johns Hopkins Medicine is planning to launch a pilot later this summer for an application for tablet devices that works with EHR systems to automate patient safety checklists.
The app will notify physicians of seven potential harms through the organization's EHR system, according to Lisa Broadband, senior communications specialist at Johns Hopkins. A high-risk harm will appear in red, while green means there is no risk present. The app checklist will address the following seven harms:
- Delirium due to improper medication dosage;
- Weakness acquired in the ICU;
- Issues arising from ventilator use;
- Blood clots;
- Central-line associated bloodstream infections;
- Loss of dignity; and
- Patients' treatment goals and preferences not being respected.
More details about the pilot program, called Emerge, will be available this summer.