Managing Visitor and Patient Flow During the COVID-19 Pandemic: ExpectingU App

Access to hospitals has been dramatically restricted during the COVID 19 pandemic. Indeed, due high risk of contamination by patients and visitors, only essential visits medical appointments have authorized. Restricting hospital access authorized visitors was an important logistic challenge. To deal with this challenge, our institution developed ExpectingU app facilitate patient authorization for enter hospital. This article analyzes different trends regarding appointments, visitors’ invitations, support staff hired hospitalizations demonstrate how system helped maintain accessibility Results shows that allowed us open without creating bottlenecks.