Just imagine the situation when one patient is being operated in the OT. Their family and relative are wondering here and there for just little information about their “How is the patient?” How is Operation going on? Patient family regularly go to front office and ask for what is going on, asking for any little information about their patient health. In the night time this situation creates more problems when there is no one available to answer their queries.
I have gone through such situation when a patient was being operated for Bypass surgery, patient family keep asking me about their patient but I am not able to tell because I was management guy not Dr, or even I was not aware what was happening inside the OT. But, now I can realize the use of mhealth here.
This is obvious a simple but I think effective step hospital can take. When patient is in OT, doctor or patient family easily connect each other with mobile application or simple by SMS. Time to time doctor can provide information about the patient condition thru mobile application to the patient family so they need not to worry about. If doctor is busy then any nurse can send this information.
This will not only give an emotional support to family but also reduce the tension. A simple mobile alert can solve many problems.
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