One of the daily tasks of a hospital nurse is to take their patients’ vital signs. The nurse jots down the information in a notepad or on the patient’s chart. Then, they open the patient’s electronic file to enter the information. This process is time-consuming and causes delays in updating the patient’s file. There’s also a higher risk of mistakes and oversights.

With the Enovacom Patient Connect device, nurses can collect vital signs and send them directly to the patient’s file. The nurse starts by scanning their ID badge and the patient’s bracelet. Then, the nurse takes the patient’s vital signs, namely blood pressure, pulse, blood oxygen saturation and body temperature, and can add other information, such as weight, height, breathing rate and details about oxygen therapy. Once all the information has been entered, they hit the button to wirelessly transfer it to the patient’s file.

The Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) ran a very small pilot project in 2020, right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2022, CHUM officially began to gradually roll out this innovative project across the hospital’s care units. The hospital also developed effective change management strategies and introduced an error notification system and improvements to the technological features to better meet the nursing staff’s needs.

Project submitted by:

Maxime Bénard, nurse clinician

Contributors:

Audrey Ferlatte, biomedical engineer
Calin Cormos, computer analyst
Jacques Bélanger, computer analyst
Jacynthe Tessier, integration analyst, Purkinje
Martin Audet, planning, programming and research agent- IT project manager
Mouhcine El Mouderrib, computer analyst
Sébastien Delécolle, technical manager, Enovacom
Véronique Chouinard, executive nursing consultant