Anyone offer an RMO digital orientation package like this?
What do you offer? Website, paper…
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Our Trust offers an avalanche of paper with little relevance to what they actually need. And it is generally completely inaccessible once they actually start working. They are looking at options to improve upon this disaster at the mo.
Having said that, https://induction-app.com/ is being used quite a bit in the UK and is filling the niche nicely for the Trusts that are a little less paranoid about data leak. It is actually widely used in ours as an unofficial parallel phone directory as our official one sucks (I’m trying to fix this).
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One of the district health boards in New Zealand has an e-RMO-guide that is accessible via phone or internet. I wonder how that compares
with the app.
Regards
Karen
Ph: 027 820 1125
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The Auckland DHB RMO Handbook is now an app on the App and Play stores
Search for RMO Clinical Handbook
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Thanks all. Yes from our survey it seems ADHB is closest here. The app we are looking at contains guidelines, recommendations, how-tos (order CT/organise clinic etc) is highly searchable, has a directory and allows for push notifications (and e-signature). It’s more than an e-book although it’s great to know that at least 2 DHBs do offer one!!
@Lucyw I downloaded the ADHB app and it really is very good BTW 
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Is there any way to use and customize the ADHB app to our local institution without reinventing the wheel? Is the person who developed the app willing to work with each DHB to do this?
Cheers,
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Hi Sari, we looked into that but we decided it would be a fair bit of work to localise and avoid confusion and it really is effectively an e-book rather than a fully fledged app. Certainly better than no orientation with an excellent conversion of the ‘red book’ and a lovely trip down memory lane for those that trained in Auckland.
Thanks Ruth. See you at the CiLN!
Sari
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The ADHB RMO handbook is going through a content review at the moment. It is very much an ebook rather than an App. I’d like it to be more like the Script App (another plug for an ADHB resource!) but i don’t think there’s any funding for further development…
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(At the risk of stating the obvious to a well informed audience)… this is a very common challenge, and not just for RMOs. I.e. how to get the right info in the right hands in a timely manner, while making it intuitive, and usable enough that using this source of info becomes the default behaviour by your target audience.
I think there is a common life cycle around a lot of these projects: enthusiasm for improvement (& sometimes one-off funding) → flurry of activity → producing something better → then a drift into gradual obsolescence unless there is a clear plan to maintain and update content +/- platform it resides on.
As an example, creating an app has the “bling” factor, and because of that can attract funding, can provide a good user experience if designed well, but also needs ongoing resourcing to keep up with operating system upgrades, ongoing content and functional development, etc.
If you can bear a bit of history… our Starship Clinical Guidelines (https://www.starship.org.nz/for-health-professionals/starship-clinical-guidelines) started off life as “the green book”, got converted to PDFs on a network drive, then made available on the internet, then moved to a more flexible internet platform and made mobile responsive. The volume and breadth of info has increased vastly, and we’re currently working on a website overhaul to make it (hopefully!) easier to use & navigate. We’ve debated whether to convert to an app, but have stuck with web-based content instead for simplicity and flexibility.
Full disclosure - I’m current clinical editor of the Starship Guidelines - but it’s been an eye opener as to what is actually required to not just set something up but make it enduring. And it’s the boring stuff in the background that makes this possible: long term funding and high level management/clinical commitment, supported by clear governance.
Anyway, that’s the end of my brain dump 
Well done if you made it this far!
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Thanks for the insight Greg. Very helpful.
Yep the HealthOne journey has been much the same. started small and moved to the South island. Now receives 2 million items a month from 250 odd GP facilities and the same from community pharmacy. Accesses per month 11,000 (and rising) to classifications. Clearly many HCP’s find it useful to BAU in healthcare. We are adding to its data types slowly but surely. The privacy framework and pro active access auditing are critical to maintain social licence.
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Hi all. For those coming on the Sydney tour @lara @greg @martin.wilson @searnshaw @robyn.whittaker I’m chatting with some folk at Prince of Wales to catch up with them on their experience of resident guide.
Ruth, I’ve just discovered that @AnniMek, a semi-Kiwi like me whom I signed up last week to CiLN whilst in Manchester, is the CMO for Resident Guide. She tells me that they are planning a pilot at CCDHB shortly.
@searnshaw, can you shed any more light on the plan for the pilot?
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I’ve never been called a ‘semi-kiwi’ before but I think I quite like the flavour of it.
For those interested, very happy to answer any questions or run demos of the product we have been building. And for those with critical feedback - please do rip it apart, the more feedback we get the better.
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Hi Nathan
Yes we are looking to run a six month pilot of RG at Wellington Regional Hospital in the near future, with the intention of a wider 3DHB rollout if successful.
Cheers
Steve
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Great. We are still building a robust enough business case! As all are aware we have been through the ringer over the past 12/12…
Hi sari, we have been working on a DHB customisable app at https://residentguide.co/ happy to give you a call or send more information if you’re interested?
Have been talking about it in BOPDHB as well.
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