App Puts an Expert in Nurses & #039; Pockets to Reduce Medical Errors

As frontline healthcare workers across the United States continue to treat COVID-19 patients, staff at hospitals that have adopted a mobile app called Elemeno have at least one thing going for them: a coronavirus expert in their pocket. “With this new app, our frontline staff has immediate access to recommended practices to safely care for patients who may have COVID-19,” said Kelly Mather, CEO of Sonoma Valley Hospital,  a UCSF Health affiliate that is now using Elemeno at the recommendation of UCSF. “It has improved rapid communication and training for our frontline teams.” The app was developed by a startup company that spun out of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), co-founded by Arup Roy-Burman, MD, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, and Ed Nanale, a veteran game developer. The Oakland, CA-based company, Elemeno Health, launched its first commercial product in 2017. The best part about this app is that the more healthcare facilities that adopt it, the better the app becomes because it is designed to enable the users to add content and share it with other Elemeno users. Then COVID-19 hit and the UCSF emergency department (ED) began adding COVID-related content to Elemeno. "As COVID ramped up and San Francisco, for California,...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Digital Health COVID-19 Source Type: news