Doctors in Montreal have another tool to work with as they make their hospital rounds in their relentless pursuit of healing.
A new app developed by computer programmers and health care staff at the McGill University Health Centre is a big step forward for both physicians and patients.
The V-Sign contains virtually everything a physician needs to know about a patient–from vital signs to lab results to nurses’ notes. All of it continuously updated, all of it instantly available.
That means fewer mistakes and more time for doctors to concentrate on care, not the endless paperwork with which they must constantly contend.
What started out as simply an effort to record bedside vital signs has grown by leaps and bounds through the cooperation of physicians and computer programmers.
A physician making full use of the V-Sign is Dr. Saleem Razack. He is an
attending physician at the Pediatric Critical Care Unit at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.
I spoke with him by phone at the hospital.
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