This article delves into the innovative application of mobile computing technology in modern hospital perioperative management. Through a practical case study of Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital, a top-tier comprehensive hospital in Jiangsu Province, this article demonstrates how the AUTOID Pad Air-HC medical tablet computer and its dedicated application assist surgical anesthesia in achieving digital assessment. It provides a key digital tool for enhancing patient safety, optimizing nursing processes, and improving the patient experience.

User Background

Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital was first founded in 1936 as an affiliated clinic of Jiangsu Provincial Medical College. It is also referred to as Jiangsu Red Cross Hospital and the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University. This Grade 3A hospital is all-inclusive. The National Health Commission announced on December 4, 2018, that it is one of the first pilot hospitals for multidisciplinary cancer diagnosis and treatment. 

Challenges

In the pursuit of refined medical management and excellent patient safety, the hospital faces challenges in information integration and process standardization during the perioperative period (especially in anesthesia assessment). Patient history, examination reports, and other information may be scattered across different departments or not synchronized in a timely manner. This can lead to anesthesiologists' preoperative assessments not being based on complete, real-time information, increasing the uncertainty of medical decision-making. Simultaneously, traditional paper-based recording methods have room for improvement in efficiency, accuracy, and information traceability.

Before introducing the digital assessment solution, the hospital faced the following specific operational and management bottlenecks in anesthesia assessment and perioperative recording:

• Difficulties in integrating patient information, raising concerns about assessment completeness: The information required for anesthesia assessment (such as outpatient records, various examination reports) comes from diverse sources. Failure to comprehensively and timely integrate this information into the assessment system may result in insufficient basis for the assessment.
• Quality and efficiency risks in manual recording processes: Reliance on manual entry can lead to data entry errors, recording oversights, or omissions. The use of record forms may vary among different medical staff, and traditional surgical nursing records are sometimes insufficiently detailed, affecting the homogenization and continuous improvement of medical quality.
• Patient preoperative anxiety and insufficient understanding: Traditional preoperative communication methods may not fully alleviate patients' fear of the unknown regarding anesthesia and surgery, nor ensure patients fully understand relevant precautions.

By deploying the anesthesia assessment application based on the AUTOID Pad Air-HC tablet computer, the hospital achieved significant value in patient service and medical quality management:

• Enhance patient experience and satisfaction: Anesthesiologists or nurses use tablet computers for bedside preoperative assessment and communication, allowing for more intuitive and interactive explanation of procedures. Practice has proven that this can significantly reduce anxiety in patients undergoing general anesthesia, improve their understanding of intraoperative knowledge, and alleviate tension upon entering the operating room the next day, thereby enhancing overall patient satisfaction with the preoperative assessment.
• Drive nursing quality improvement and protocol optimization: The digital assessment process ensures structured and standardized information entry, reducing human errors. It provides a more reliable data foundation for implementing differentiated and refined nursing protocols, thereby improving the overall quality of perioperative care.
• Achieve mobility and standardization of the assessment process: This solution liberates pre- and postoperative assessment work from fixed workstations, achieving mobile bedside assessment. This makes the assessment work more flexible, efficient, and follows a unified, standardized process.

Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital adopted the anesthesia assessment mobile healthcare solution featuring the Seuic AUTOID Pad Air-HC tablet computer:

• Deploy professional medical mobile terminals: Introduced the AUTOID Pad Air-HC medical tablet computer as a dedicated mobile assessment tool in the anesthesiology department. Its design balances the cleanliness requirements of the medical environment with the convenience of clinical operation.
• Restructure the assessment and nursing workflow: This solution deeply embeds digital tools into the workflow. Through mobile, structured assessment, it not only improves the efficiency and accuracy of the assessment itself but also transforms the assessment process into an effective patient education and psychological comfort session. Simultaneously, it provides digital support for the unification and enhancement of postoperative nursing standards, achieving closed-loop management from assessment to care.
• Restructure the assessment and nursing workflow: This solution deeply embeds digital tools into the workflow. Through mobile, structured assessment, it not only improves the efficiency and accuracy of the assessment itself but also transforms the assessment process into an effective patient education and psychological comfort session. Simultaneously, it provides digital support for the unification and enhancement of postoperative nursing standards, achieving closed-loop management from assessment to care.