There’s An App For That! Using A Smartphone-Based Application For Accurate And Efficient Patient Handoff.

Background: Accurate and efficient handoff is a critical part of hospital-based patient care. In the current era of smartphones and rapidly advancing technology, multi-platform based applications are an integral part of professional life. This quality improvement project introduced a free, HIPAA compliant, multi-platform handoff application (Listrunner app, Listrunner, Inc. San Francisco, CA) to improve the accuracy and efficiency of patient sign-out in a single academic center within the pediatric cardiology fellowship program. Methods: Listrunner app was implemented to improve …