West / North West Hospitals Group launches a contacts mobile app

A new mobile app which contains all the contact telephone numbers for each of the hospital sites in the West / North West Hospitals Group* was launched yesterday in Galway.
 
The new app is free to download for use by staff and GPs. Users can choose which hospital to set as “home” and the app also includes many other features such as shortcuts to numbers used frequently.
 
Dr Donal Reddan, Group Clinical Director for Medicine launched the mobile app and said, “This is an extremely useful app and it will make it much easier for staff to contact colleagues in other hospitals and is a timely development as we work towards integrating the hospitals since the expansion of the Group last July. It will also be hugely beneficial to our GP colleagues.”
 
The mobile app was developed by Dr Joe Sheehan, who works as a Radiologist Registrar in Galway University Hospitals along with Shane McAllister who is an app developer and Kieran Coleman, who is a GP trainee working in Mayo General Hospital.
 
The development of the app was kindly sponsored by MSD. Mick Phelan, Business Unit Director, commented, “MSD is committed to providing leading solutions for the benefit of patients so we were delighted to offer our support to this new app, which will result in improved communications and productivity across the Hospital Group. MSD is delighted to be involved in this innovative project and we wish it every success.”