Patients Safety in EHR
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Patient Safety in EHR
Patient care integrates harmonized efforts by healthcare providers to prevent harm to patients. Electrical Health Records provides an important solution to excellent patient care delivery. The system aims to reduce medical errors that can harm patients in health care safety. The paper seeks to establish ways in which patient care is addressed during EHR needs assessment.
Health Information Exchange (HIE) gives medical providers information about a patient on time, reduces patient care delays, and saves time. The approach enables physicians to identify and analyze the patient’s past treatment and compares it to the present lab abnormalities (Goroll 2017). Patients satisfaction levels in hospitals with HIE are high compared to hospitals that do not use the system.
The use of electronic health records needs assessment enables patient issues to be identified early. Early detection of the patients’ issue of concern enables nurses and other health care workers to find solutions to the concerns.HIE comes in handy for patients who cannot effectively communicate their problems or are unwilling to discuss their health issues. Patients transferred from other hospitals can be attended to effectively due to the information about the diagnosis done in the previous hospital.
During EHR needs assessment, the reduction of test redundancy addresses patient care. The number of laboratories, x-ray tests, and radiology exams is reduced in hospitals, preventing redundancy (Strauss, Martinez and Garcia 2015). The lowered redundancy cases happen when clinical practitioners better access the patient’s medical data through Health Information Exchange. Patients’ data is safely stored in electronic health records, unlike in the past, where the information was at risk of getting lost.
Patient care is addressed in the needs assessment of EHR by reducing the occurrence of medical errors. The technology enables medics to monitor patients’ reactions to a certain drug, the correct dosage, and prescriptions (Goroll 2017). Patient allergies to certain types of drugs are identified due to electrical health records. Standard machine-readable codes, also know,n as bar codes, can prevent medical error. The electronic tool is used to administer the right medication and dose to the right patient. The system allows health practitioners to match the patients’ identification with the right medication, dose, and medication administration type. The system also checks for side effects arising from a prescribed medication of patients, reducing the chance of reinfection or even death.
Health information exchange improves the sharing of patient information between medical practitioners of two or more hospitals. The data is important, especially when transferring a critically ill patient from one health facility to another. The EMR facilitates the time between identifying the need for patient transfer. This could prevent delay of patient treatment and care, and the technology also saves on time.
The approach enables patients to manage preventable diseases better. Early screening helps medical practitioners detect life-threatening diseases like hypertension and hepatitis (Strauss, Martinez and Garcia 2015). With the technology, clinicians can be educated by clinicians on the risk factors to specific diseases and ways to change their lifestyle like proper diet and regular exercise to reduce risks of acquiring the diseases.
Patients Safety in EHR
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Goroll, A. H. (2017). Emerging from EHR purgatory—moving from process to outcomes. N Engl J Med, 376(21), 2004-2006.
Strauss, A.T., Martinez, D.A., & Garcia-A. (2015). A user needs assessment to inform health information exchange design and implementation.
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Patient Safety in EHR
Patient care integrates harmonized efforts by healthcare providers to prevent harm to patients. Electrical Health Records provides an important solution to excellent patient care delivery. The system aims to reduce medical errors that can harm patients in health care safety. The paper seeks to establish ways in which patient care is addressed during EHR needs assessment.
Health Information Exchange (HIE) gives medical providers information about a patient on time, reduces patient care delays, and saves time. The approach enables physicians to identify and analyze the patient’s past treatment and compares it to the present lab abnormalities (Goroll 2017). Patients satisfaction levels in hospitals with HIE are high compared to hospitals that do not use the system.
The use of electronic health records needs assessment enables patient issues to be identified early. Early detection of the patients’ issue of concern enables nurses and other health care workers to find solutions to the concerns.HIE comes in handy for patients who cannot effectively communicate their problems or are unwilling to discuss their health issues. Patients transferred from other hospitals can be attended to effectively due to the information about the diagnosis done in the previous hospital.
During EHR needs assessment, the reduction of test redundancy addresses patient care. The number of laboratories, x-ray tests, and radiology exams is reduced in hospitals, preventing redundancy (Strauss, Martinez and Garcia 2015). The lowered redundancy cases happen when clinical practitioners better access the patient’s medical data through Health Information Exchange. Patients’ data is safely stored in electronic health records, unlike in the past, where the information was at risk of getting lost.
Patient care is addressed in the needs assessment of EHR by reducing the occurrence of medical errors. The technology enables medics to monitor patients’ reactions to a certain drug, the correct dosage, and prescriptions (Goroll 2017). Patient allergies to certain types of drugs are identified due to electrical health records. Standard machine-readable codes, also know,n as bar codes, can prevent medical error. The electronic tool is used to administer the right medication and dose to the right patient. The system allows health practitioners to match the patients’ identification with the right medication, dose, and medication administration type. The system also checks for side effects arising from a prescribed medication of patients, reducing the chance of reinfection or even death.
Health information exchange improves the sharing of patient information between medical practitioners of two or more hospitals. The data is important, especially when transferring a critically ill patient from one health facility to another. The EMR facilitates the time between identifying the need for patient transfer. This could prevent delay of patient treatment and care, and the technology also saves on time.
The approach enables patients to manage preventable diseases better. Early screening helps medical practitioners detect life-threatening diseases like hypertension and hepatitis (Strauss, Martinez and Garcia 2015). With the technology, clinicians can be educated by clinicians on the risk factors to specific diseases and ways to change their lifestyle like proper diet and regular exercise to reduce risks of acquiring the diseases.
Reference
Goroll, A. H. (2017). Emerging from EHR purgatory—moving from process to outcomes. N Engl J Med, 376(21), 2004-2006.
Strauss, A.T., Martinez, D.A., & Garcia-A. (2015). A user needs assessment to inform health information exchange design and implementation.
Question
Patient safety is a major concern for the health care industry. Refer to the topic materials to discuss how this concern may be addressed during the EHR needs assessment.