Improving Post-Hospital Discharge Management by Implementing the Discharge Summary on a Mobile Application

Abstract

Patients often rely on a printed discharge summary for clinical information, post-discharge treatment, medications and other health activities, non-adherence to which may lead to readmission. With the active involvement of clinicians, medical informatics professionals and technical advisors a mobile prototype application has been designed and developed to provide a user-friendly presentation of clinical information aiming to increase the adherence of medical advice. We conducted a task-based usability and accuracy test and found that the average accuracy was 97%, time taken for each task to complete was 7.5s (average) and the overall navigation was termed as ‘easy to understand’ by the users.