Use of Quick Response Coding to Create Interactive Patient and Provider Resources

Abstract

Background: Since their creation more than 20 years ago, the proliferation of Quick Response (QR) codes has expanded tremendously. Little was found in the literature to support the innovative use of QR coding in the classroom or in health care provision. Thus, the authors created a doctoral-level practicum experience using QR coding to create interactive, individualized patient or provider resource guides. Method: Short, descriptive surveys were used before and after implementation of the practicum experience to determine students’ comfort level using QR technology, their knowledge base, ease of use, and overall satisfaction with the practicum. Results: Students reported high levels of satisfaction with this exercise, and all agreed that use of QR coding could have important implications in the clinical environment. Conclusion: This practicum experience was a creative, practical, and valuable example of integrating emerging technology into individualized patient care. [ J Nurs Educ. 2015;54(4):224–227.]

Uses of Quick Response Codes in Healthcare Education: A Scoping Review

“…Ten articles discussed ways in which QR codes could be utilised to enhance participant engagement (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20). This can be broadly divided into those focusing on anatomy teaching, formative assessment, case-based learning and engagement with publications.…”

“…The majority of the aforementioned studies demonstrated how students found QR codes easy to use (12)(13)(14)(15)(16) and had a desire to continue using them in the future for classroom exercises or otherwise (13)(14)(15)(16).…”

Uses of Quick Response Codes in Healthcare Education: A Scoping Review

“…Nine articles discussed ways in which QR codes could be utilised to enhance participant engagement [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. These can be broadly divided into those focusing on anatomy teaching, formative assessment, case-based learning and engagement with publications.…”

“…The majority of the aforementioned studies demonstrated how students found QR codes easy to use [19][20][21][22][23] and had a desire to continue using them in the future for classroom exercises or otherwise [20][21][22][23].…”

Evaluation and implementation of QR Code Identity Tag system for Healthcare in Turkey

“…Although there are many options for the 2D code used to identify patients, the QR code (Denso 2011) technology is a practical one: the healthcare industry is seeing widening use of applications relying on QR codes (Vazquez-Briseno et al 2010; Liu et al 2012; Al-Khalifa 2008; Gómez et al 2013; Rahman et al 2015; Leza et al 2013a, b; Emran and Leza 2014; Avidan et al 2015; Bellot et al 2015; Shakil et al 2014; Shejul et al 2015; Dube et al 2015; Charoensiriwath et al 2015; Lee et al 2015). The most significant advantage of QR code utilization for patient identification originates from its simple technological base: QR code-based technology provides high ease of access for users, because it requires no special tags (such as RF tags).…”