Handover is the transfer of professional
responsibility and accountability for some or all aspects of care for a
patient, or a group of patients to another person or professional group
on a temporary or permanent basis. - AMA Clinical Handover Report, 2006.
Electronic
handover removes the inefficiencies and gaps often left by informal
oral handover processes currently used in most Australian hospitals.
The BOSSnet Handover System is a rapid, robust and powerful solution to improving the clinical handover process.
Already proven to be highly effective within Australian hospital environments, The BOSSnet Handover System provides:
- Streamlined data entry for comprehensive and succinct handover information via wizard check boxes. - The ability to include additional relevant information via free-text entry. - The ability to display recently completed diagnostic investigation results. - Configurable and predefined search criteria to produce patient lists for specific units, wards, teams or shifts. - The ability to sort the patient list by ward/ bed number, by consultant or by priority. - The ability to include outlier patients with a specialty/ unit list. - Secure access via hospital LAN or the web.
- A simple 'print' command to produce hard copy patient lists,
ready for distribution during or prior to handover meetings.