TY - JOUR T1 - Connecting the hospital using ‘Forward’, a smartphone application for clinical teams JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 67 LP - 67 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s67 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Joel Schamroth AU - William Pettit AU - Lydia Yarlott AU - Lucinda Scharff AU - Molly Gilmartin AU - Rhydian Harris AU - Barnabas J Gilbert Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_1/67.abstract N2 - A team of junior doctors aimed to create a smartphone messaging and workflow app, Forward, to improve the speed and security of communication between NHS clinical staff. Current options available to doctors include traditional systems (hospital landlines, radio-pagers) and unendorsed, non-compliant social messengers. To date, hospitals haven’t capitalised on the widespread use of personal smartphones among clinical staff.Research to prove the (i) problem / user case and (ii) effectiveness of the app (Forward) was undertaken over 1 year across multiple sites and using different research methods across three phases. A total of >200 clinical … ER -