Overview
Clinical handover can be both a perilous process and an opportunity for ensuring safe and effective patient care, yet handovers are often impromptu, informal and supported by ad hoc artefacts. Ghandi (Generic Handover Investigation) is a three year project, funded by the EPSRC, that is investigating handover and interaction technologies to support handover in healthcare settings.
Based in the Centre for HCI Design at City University London, and building on the success of the earlier ACE project, we are developing theoretical models of the collaborative work of handover and practical guidance and support for clinicians. We have undertaken extensive field studies of handover in a range of healthcare settings and have recently deployed PaperChain, a novel ICT system to support handover, at a paediatric retrieval service where it has been positively received.
Please contact Stephanie Wilson (steph@soi.city.ac.uk) if you would like further information about GHandI.