InternoPS is a mobile application developed to help junior doctors improve their work practices and patient care and safety.
InternoPS allows secure and confidential electronic recording of patient-specific medical tasks and protects and improves patient confidentiality and anonymity by replacing hand-written notes containing patient details and identifiers by confidential anonymous electronic entries.
The app functions as a task-manager and the user chooses from a list of medical jobs. No identifiable individual patient data are entered at any point and the only free text entered is a unique and private patient identifier (7 alphanumeric characters - the first two are letters and the remaining 5 are numbers). Thus, it is not possible to enter the patients name, preserving privacy.
This latest version in the popular Interno series of app adds reminders for handover, allowing uncompleted tasks to be transferred to the doctor taking over patient care at handover (change of medical shift). The app can also be used as a personal audit of workload i.e. number and type of tasks carried out on a daily basis.
The app is a daily diary to do list similar to the popular iPhone diary, but specifically designed for the busy junior hospital doctor.