App narrows down data searches in the ED to 5 seconds

In the ED, time is critical. Researchers have developed an app that they say can help physicians cut the time they need to retrieve clinical information from systems outside the electronic health records from several minutes to as little as 5 seconds in an emergency setting.
“There are many times in emergency rooms where physicians have to urgently react to clinical conditions,” Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, one of the app’s developers, told Healio Primary Care. “Inefficiencies in accessing relevant information become even more grave when you have little time.”

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