5 Fields to Add to Your Digital Healthcare Shift Logs

Record healthcare data using digital forms equipped with these five impactful fields

Healthcare is fast-paced, round-the-clock work and with no room for error. Whether a patient seeks care from a senior care facility, an emergency room, or a small private practice, patients count on healthcare professionals for prompt, quality care. Paper-based documentation jeopardizes efficiency in the workplace with delays, lost documentation, illegible print, and more, ultimately putting your healthcare practice and patients at risk.

Introducing digital forms into your day-to-day processes results in a variety of benefits that help your staff capture better data, stay accountable, and improve workflow operations. Check out these five fields that modernize and enhance your digital healthcare shift logs:

Checkbox fields
Including Checkbox fields in your digital forms allows users to quickly note and outline tasks performed or completed during a shift. For example, a caregiver at a senior living facility might need to check off and record certain tasks performed each day for a patient. With digital forms, this data can easily be captured with Checkbox fields and captured within the GoFormz platform for easy to access data, resulting in an increase in visibility to real-time data.

Timestamps
Utilize Date and Time fields to collect accurate data for daily shift logs. A Date and Time field can auto-populate as soon as another field is entered to increase the efficiency of completing daily logs and capturing hours worked during a shift.

Table fields
Adding Table fields to your digital and mobile forms help your healthcare teams keep data organized, accurate, and uniform. Within the Template Editor form creators can optimize each of their Table’s columns specific field Properties, like field type, formatting, locked columns, automate actions, and more. This functionality is extremely beneficial for healthcare organizations of all kinds to ensure data is being properly organized and stored for easy to access data, resulting in streamlined processes and patient care.

Dynamic Field Properties
By manipulating the visibility of fields using Dynamic Field Properties, form creators can decrease redundancies and confusion by only showing fields relevant to specific Users. For example, a nurse completing her daily shift log might have different needs than that of a physical therapist. When completing forms, additional fields specific to their role will auto-populate, which other users may not see, ultimately increasing data accuracy and accelerating the collection of information.

Additionally, Dynamic Field Properties used in conjunction with Required fields can improve data accuracy. Assigning Required fields to certain personnel guarantees forms are completed correctly with vital information before submitting shift logs to supervisors - no more missing information or re-filling out forms!

Automated form routing 
When shift logs are completed, forms can be automatically routed to supervisors through Automated Workflows. This functionality eliminates the need for manual handoffs and increases efficiency by instantaneously providing access to data in real-time. Additionally, with the ability to integrate with various business applications, forms can be stored in the GoFormz platform as well as integrated software, reducing the need to rekey information.

Interested in learning more about how GoFormz can increase efficiency and enhance workflows in healthcare practices? Check out you can run a leaner healthcare operation with digital forms.