ECIST Webinar on CEMBooks and FOCUSED Site Operating Model
March 27, 2023
ECIST Webinar on CEMBooks and FOCUSED Site operating model. Hear from the team at one of our exemplar sites @ Leeds Teaching Hospitals about how they have implemented CEMBooks both in the ED and it’s use by the Clinical Site Management Team to help with recording and increasing visibility not only of site pressures but…
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CEMBooks and Risk Management
Dr. Pete Cutting, Risk Lead at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Emergency Departments explains how CEMBooks supports the new NHS Patient Safety Incident Reporting Framework. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lthtinnovation_cembooks-and-risk-management-activity-7034924259751682049-4NCi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
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Happy New Year 2023
Happy New Year everyone from all of us at CEMBooks. As we updated the website we’re looking to increase the output with meaningful posts. This post is from Dr Stuart Nuttall an Emergency Consultant in Leeds and a member of the CEMBooks team. Here he describes some reflections that he has had following shifts in his ED over the new year period. In what has been a challenging time for all of us nationally in emergency care. Decision fatigue is real and well recognised in the Emergency department. The number of decisions is great – no wonder we feel stressed,…
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Quality Improvement
This week saw CEMBooks cited in its first poster presentation at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Annual scientific conference #RCEMAsc in Belfast. Dr Martin Macrae, a junior clinical fellow at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NhS Trust described a quality improvement use case where CEMBooks had been used to gather information and data regarding security incidents and threats to staff in the ED. The information recorded on CEMBooks allowed Martin to quantify the scale of the problem and the types of incidents that were occurring. 75% of staff reported abuse on a daily basis with nearly a quarter of incidents relating…
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Android App!
Big news for CEMBooks this week. Our very first CEMBooks V2 Android App hit the Google Play store this week. Please be gentle!! This is our first foray into the Android world (and about time too, I hear some of you shout). Future App updates will be released simultaneously for iOS and Android. We hope you enjoy using the App and let us know how it goes. Feedback is always appreciated to help improve future builds and user experience. So if you want to capture handover, walk arounds, sit reps and escalations while having an organisational phone book and guideline…
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Product Update V2.22
Happy New Year everyone from all of us at CEMBooks. We hope you had a peaceful and enjoyable Christmas and are ready to roll into 2022. Winter always seems a daunting time, but the days are getting longer, the nights that little bit shorter and the Spring Classics are just around the corner and we’ll be on our way to Summer. Most of our sites are now either migrated or in the process of migration across to V2 and we hope to have this completed across all sites by the end of January. This week we rolled out sprint 22…
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How to build an App – Lesson 3.
Practicalities Wow, 2 weeks rolls round quickly! Welcome back to our “how to build a healthcare IT solution”. In this week’s tutorial we are going to discuss some of the practicalities to think about when building your solution. How will it be used – environment and compatibility This should come from your user stories. How will your users engage with your product – native app? mobile web? desktop web? Do you require push notifications as a function? Do you want an offline mode? If yes to these two questions then you will probably have to build a native app to…
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Product Update – V2.21
Big news here at CEMBooks HQ is Sprint 21 was released last week. This includes: iOS release: First release of CEMBooks V2 App: Find it here (https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/cembooks-2/id1571916400). Words can’t describe how happy we are to get this out, so here is an emoji instead:😁 We think our customers are going to love the speed and fluidity of the app, and really max out using: 1- living wall for sit reps and customisable logs linked to: 1- notifications & mentions 2- Roles 3- escalations 5- phone book 6- Rulebook Get it here (https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/cembooks-2/id1571916400) Web & Reactive- New features Escalation actions are…
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How to build an App – Lesson 2
The process – user stories In lesson one we discussed the process for getting your idea on paper and trying to describe the problem your solution solves. With Lesson 2 we move on to the process of building user stories that describe how individuals will use the product. The key starting point for what you are about to build doesn’t necessarily start with you. It starts with your end users. It is the what and the how of using the product. In lesson one we discussed the requirement to think about the “need” and what problem the app solves. You now…
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Roles – who are they and what do they do?
Who is in charge of the shift in your ED? Who makes decisions regarding site operations out of hours? Who is “on call for ICU”? EPIC, NiC, CIC, CSM, ADOP, Reg on call, Doc in the box, Matron for escalation, Bronze command etc etc Every hospital has them and they are key to how hospitals and departments run. Often they are a different person on a different day too – even different people at different times of the same day. How do you keep track of who is working in each Role at a specific time of day? What are…
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How to build an App – Lesson 1
So, you want to build an App. To solve a problem, to make your life easier or to perhaps make some money. How hard can it be? But what are the first steps to take, what do I need, what software do I need and how do I go about it?? To start with, as always, a disclaimer. There is always more than one way to get something done. The same is true with web and app design. I don’t intend to give you the definitive way, or the only way, simply a way. The CEMBooks way that we used…
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Sit Rep KPI’s
KPI’s – key performance indicators. Not just the basic numbers that have to be reported to central agencies but the things that make your ward or department tick, that make it feel pressured, that you know if they’re sorted means that the department will run smoothly? One of the first things we do when implementing CEMBooks V2 is to sit down with the local team and work out what needs to be reported on as daily work, what impacts how a department feels and what these numbers should be at different times of day. A core emergency department KPI might…
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Product Update – CEMBooks V2.18
Sprint 18 has now come to a close with the latest release pushed to live on the 3rd September 2021. The following features have been added to the live production environment Whats New: Living wall search & download improvements: Search and download data from logs & sitrepsPhonebook search improvements: better unified results on default searchesEscalations pertaining to a sitrep can be accessed from a sitrepMention users / roles improvements: more quickly mention roles and usersAutofilled KPI’s data now show time source data was submitted to the systemNotification improvements: More specific notification alerts You can’t see this but the native mobile…
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Introduction – our first blog!
Hello and welcome to the CEMBooks blog site. Looking for the latest Product info for CEMBOoks V2? You’re in the right place. Content on this blog will be: 1/ Product updates as each development sprint is pushed to the live environment, 2/ Updates on the current dev sprint, 3/ Sharing use cases and examples of best practice Various members of the CEMBooks team will be contributing to the blog to bring you up to date product information as soon as it is released. We will be publishing on the blog through our landing page at www.CEMBooks.com and distributing via @CEMBooks…
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Bug Fixes
Bug duplicating presentation of logs data when opening / closing logsBug not allowing closing of logsIncreased comment character allowanceFamily tree not scrolling properl in reactive mobileFixed rendering issues for tables in reactive web app