NHS Connecting for Health described it as: The utilization of electronic systems to facilitate and enhance the communication of a prescription or medicine order, aiding the choice, administration and supply of a medicine through knowledge and decision support and providing a robust audit trail for the entire medicines use process. (Tolley 35) This new found system of prescribing can offset the problems occurring within the old system of prescribing. It has been stated in many different ways that E-prescribing can reduce the error in handwritten prescriptions. Some said that E-prescribing reduces “the risk of medication errors caused by illegible or incomplete handwritten prescriptions (New study finds 19),” another article said that “E-prescribing systems can reduce prescribing errors and their harm (Electronic Prescribing Improves 530).” There is a reason why many articles say that E-prescribing can reduce error. There is a reason why there are so many articles explaining and going into great detail about E-prescribing.
Analysis of the use of technology in health care shows favorable, and the future of health care technology and patient information systems will only continue to grow. Technology allows patients to remain in their home and have their disease process monitored remotely. Patients have the opportunity to participate actively in their health care and maintenance by using telemonitoring devices. Electronic devices to monitor values, such as blood pressure and heart rate readings, pulse oximetry, and pacemaker monitors are also used remotely. The use of technology has been effective in assisting to reduce health care costs for individuals because they are more closely monitored and are proactive in detecting complications before they become severe enough to require further treatment or hospitalization.
The Good View Cynthia Wardlow Marc Gewin MED 1140 Virginia College Abstract I am going to elaborate the different debates and/or discussions regarding Electronic Medical Coding: contrasting and comparing today’s recent technologies and the many ways it has transpired the medical field. The Good View Inputting information electronically can make health care less expensive and more efficient. It can also improve the quality of care towards patients by providing quick access to data and information. Quick and precise care can promote positive reviews and rapport for future patients. Medical records software now guaranteed to make labor at ease providing Doctors with a range of capability to capture and store data.
This is began with piloting a single new process, followed by examining results and responding to what was learned by problem-solving and making adjustments, after which the next PDSA cycle would be initiated. According to Hughes (2008), the majority of quality improvement efforts using PDSA found greater success using a series of small and rapid cycles to achieve the goals for the intervention. The aims of effectiveness and safety are targeted through process-of-care measures, assessing whether providers of health care perform processes that have been demonstrated to achieve the desired aims and avoid those processes that are predisposed toward harm (American Academy Of Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation, 2008). The
Process indicators measure aspects of nursing care such as assessment, intervention and RN job satisfaction. Patient outcomes that determined to be nursing sensitive are those that improve if there is a greater quantity or quality of nursing care. (“Nursing World”, 2013) A basic knowledge of the nursing-sensitive indicators and how it directly relates to and impacts both nursing and patient satisfaction could have improved patient family trust and overall delivered quality patient care. The use of restraints at times is medically necessary to prevent falls, dislodgement of medically required invasive devices and to prevent patient harm. Use of physical restraint should be used as a last resort; only used when less restrictive mechanisms have been determined to be ineffective; the use of restraint must be in accordance with a written modification to the patient’s plan of care; used in accordance with the order of a physician or licensed independent practitioner (LIP); must never be written as a PRN order; each order must be renewed every 4 hours, for adults up to 24 hours at which time a reevaluation by a LIP is required for reasons of violent or self-destructive behavior; each order of restraint use for nonviolent reasons must be renewed according to hospital policy; and restraint must be discontinued at the earliest possible time (“Use of Physical
Handwritten reports or notes, manual order entry, non-standard abbreviation and poor legibility lead to errors and injuries to patients, according to a 1999 Institute of Medicine Report. CPOE significantly improved timely discontinuation of antibacterial from 38.8 percent of surgeries to 55.7 percent in the intervention hospital. CPOE/e-prescribing systems can provide automatic dosing alerts (for example, letting the user know that the dose is too high and thus dangerous and interaction checking. In this way, specialist in pharmacy informatics work with the medical and nursing staff at hospitals to improve the safety and effectiveness of medication use by utilizing CPOE systems. In using CPOE for medications, orders are incorporated with patient information, such as other prescriptions and lab results, which can be automatically checked for potential errors or problems.
These duties only slightly change when a person advances in their position to health information supervisors and managers, auditor, compliance review, or clinical documentation and improvement specialists (Coeira, 2012). The increasing use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) will continue to change the job responsibilities, but staying current with technology and medical advancements along with government regulations will ease those changes (Cai, Hing, Hsiao, & Socey,
Effective Communication Paper Catherine Lewis University of Phoenix Matt Dennis HCS/345 June 28, 2011 Effective Communication Paper Knowledge sharing is an essential component of the boundaryless organization. Increasingly more in businesses today, boundaryless organization unite teams and network environments within the health care structure. Teamwork, context, and communication replace formal lines of authority. Teams from in boundary less organization responds quickly to changes in their environment and create new solutions to complex problems. For the purpose of this essay, the writer plans to investigate how techniques have been most effective for sharing information and ideas, which techniques were ineffective, how these techniques
They have identified four strategies to contain health care cost, they consist of reduce the burden of preventable disease, make health care delivery more efficient, reduce nonclinical health system costs that do not contribute to patient care and promote value-based decision making at all levels.(http://www.ama-assn.org). I will continue by looking at some of the key expenditures
On the surface, just being able to simply send the basic patient chart to another doctor in the practice, the front desk, the nearest hospital or even a specialist is an improvement on the current paper process (Source One). However, even more important than ease of use, is the ability of the EMR software to track patient systems across multiple providers in the same practice or across hospital in an entire integrated health network (Source Seven). The physicians would have the option to view other patient charts with similar patient symptoms to a patient they were currently treating in real-time, which would allow them to see what they were ultimately diagnosed with, potentially saving the life of the patient on the table. It could essentially cut out the ‘learning curve’ of that doctor, especially if it was a set of symptoms that they were not as familiar with (Source Sixteen). Further, the EMR software is capable of alerting the doctors to trends that are taking place across the health system, making them aware of current bugs that may be floating around the area, which can help with quicker, accurate treatment of diseases and illnesses (Source