Mobile Health Research Group™

Enhancing Patient Management at the Point of Care Using Electronic-Based Clinical Pathways

(The Digital Pen and Paper project)

ARC Linkage Project, LP0989160-R1 (2009-2010)

Digital Pen & Paper for Clinical Pathways: Currently hospitals are seeking to move patient information from paper files to electronic databases. At the bedside or point of care (POC), there are limited automated information entry systems. A goal of this project is to trial digital paper and pen based technology for assisting in recording clinical pathway data, including charting by exception, at the bedside. The benefits for nurses and clinicians would include fast, accurate collection of data at the point of care that could be analysed or reformatted in ways that assist clinical decision-making and workflow management as well as resource management and auditing.

Chief Investigators: Dr Linda Dawson (Monash University, FIT); Dr Virginia Plummer (Monash University, FMN&HS); Associate Professor Julie Fisher (Monash University, FIT)

Partner Investigators: Dr Stephen Weeding - tbc, (NEC); Ms Terri Harlem (Peninsula Health); Mr Bob Ribbons (Peninsula Health)

Research Fellow: Ms Janette Agg- tbc (Monash University, FMN&HS)

Administering Organisation: Monash University

Partner Organisations: NEC Business Solutions, Fraser & Jenkinson Pty Ltd trading as (Print Media Group) and Peninsula Health (Frankston Hospital).

This ARC Linkage Project will operate under the following ethics application(s): Peninsula Health's Human Research and Ethics Committee (HREC) Research Project Application No. [to be updated]: Enhancing Patient Management at the Point of Care Using Electronic-Based Clinical Pathways. Approval will also be sought from Monash University's  Standing Committee on Ethics in Research Involving Humans (SCERH) following the procedure for [to be updated].