In collaboration with members of the Phoenix Children's Hospital governing board, our team is helping medical residents reduce the time they spend documenting the procedural experinece they've gained throughout their training. Hundreds of thousands of residents who are required to submit their progress to their program director or a national institution would benefit from improvements to the existing systems. Presently, the medical residents document procedures in the local Electronic Medical Record system while also having to log them in third-party Medical Education Softwares. From user testimonials, this system is redundant, difficult to navigate and far too time-consuming. In attempts to document this information on their own, many residents wind up breaking HIPPA privacy laws or dismiss documenting altogether due to the hassle. This leaves gaps in data need by program directors to assess their residents' competency.
Our team will be creating a software that offers medical residents a simpler way to document the work they do each day. By creating an application that can scan for required information, either from a patient's wristband or the resident's own notes, the struggles of logging would be greatly diminished and the log rates and accuracies wil increase.