A new study by Memorial University researchers shows that it will take more than just innovative digital e-health solutions to solve long wait times and overcrowding in emergency departments.
What’s also needed according to the postdoctoral research fellow who is working on ways to address the problem, are what she calls “multi-faceted strategies aimed at overcoming barriers” within large-scale quality improvement programming.
SurgeCon is the brainchild of a small group of clinicians at Carbonear Hospital and MUN researchers. What Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki found was that even though barriers in the adoption of e-health are well documented, there’s “little to no information available to help solve them.”
Anaraki will present the findings from a SurgeCon quality improvement study tomorrow at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences now underway in Montreal.