By Healthcare Facilities Today

A new mobile app has streamlined communication at the construction site of the new $750 million Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center in Sacramento, Calif., according to an article on the Healthcare Facilities Management magazine website.

The Boldt Co., lead construction firm on the project, tested the app, called PlanGrid, that makes loading, reading and updating blueprints and technical drawings easier on a tablet and enables contractors, architects and others to collaborate more easily.

"The work done with this app at Sutter Medical Center has made having documents in our hands extremely easy and useful," says Mike Mielcarek, project manager, Boldt.

"Whenever there is an update, everyone has it immediately and work gets done accordingly. We aren't guessing who has the latest and greatest of the more than 6,000 sheets we work with," he said in the article.

With the app, a superintendent can take a photo of an issue and assign it to a subcontractor. Then the photo shows up on the subcontractor's tablet on the map of the Sutter site and the subcontractor can fix the issue, according to the article.

Read the article.