Family participation in hospital rounds, when a medical team visits a patient to review the patient’s status and care plan, are an important part of the care regimen. But the timing of rounds changes frequently, oftentimes making it difficult for families to participate.
Q-rounds is a new technology that aims to address those challenges through features like real-time notifications to patient families when rounds will take place and an option for virtual attendance by family members who can’t be at the hospital due to geographic barriers or other obligations, like work and caring for other family members.
University of Minnesota researchers Mike Pitt, M.D., and John Sartori, Ph.D., utilized funding from CTSI’s Office of Discovery and Translation (ODAT) to advance the development of Q-rounds. In addition to improving the hospital rounding experience for patients, families, and providers, Q-rounds can also ease language barriers by helping to schedule an interpreter for the visit...
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