Doctor's phone app up for award
DONCASTER Royal Infirmary is ringing the changes - after one of its top doctors invented a way to use his phone to stop errors which could harm child patients.
NHS bosses believe Dr Haidar Samiei, the Intake-based hospital’s emergency department consultant, has created a technique which could make health treatment safer for millions of children by curbing mistakes in prescriptions by under-pressure hospital medics.
He has now been shortlisted for a health services award, following his development of an iPhone application that is believed to improve the accuracy of prescribing in children’s medicine.
Dr Samiei developed the iPhone application, called Paeds ED, along with a team including consultants from Leeds and Bradford, in a bid to reduce the number of prescribing errors made by emergency department doctors.
Since its launch on the iTunes store five months ago, Paeds ED has been downloaded 10,000 times in 33 countries worldwide, including Italy, Mexico, Canada and the USA. The application costs 3.99, but a less comprehensive version is available to download, free of charge.
Dr Samiei said: “The Paeds ED app isn’t just a clever calculator, it can tell you what drugs you need for a specific condition and electronically work out the correct quantities after inputting information such as the child’s age or weight.
“Rather than working out calculations manually using a white board, this new app is super fast, super precise, reduces stress, and removes the risk of human error.”
Dr Samiei and his team have been short-listed for the technology and IT prize at the prestigious Health Service Journal and Nursing Times’ Patient Safety Awards.
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