WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Health & Fitness:Medicine
Date: November 6, 2014
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As the implementation of electronic health records (EHR) increases across healthcare, so has awareness of new patient safety risks that the technology has either introduced or exposed. The very same EHR being counted on to improve communication, safety, and continuity of care across multiple settings and providers turns out to have features that can have the opposite effect. Getting a good handle on where the vulnerabilities lie is the first step toward coming up with solutions.
Some of the most prominent concerns include EHR systems that generate so many online warnings that clinicians and staff complain of “alert fatigue” and have come up with workarounds to avoid them. To save time, practitioners have also developed the habit of updating a patient’s EHR with a lot of copying and pasting, often forwarding medical information that no one has recently reviewed and that may contain inaccuracies. Computer programs that allow doctors to open up and work on multiple electronic patient records at the same time is another accident waiting to happen, according to some. When combined with being interrupted or distracted, it’s not hard to imagine all the mix-ups that can and do occur.
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WIHI: The Next Wave of Reform for Medical Education
WIHI: The Health Care Tune-Up Show! Leading with Logic and Emotion
WIHI: Message to Managers: Crises Happen. Plan Ahead!
WIHI: Tipping the Scales: Fresh Ideas to Combat Obesity
WIHI: Adverse Events and Their Aftermath: SOS from Clinicians
WIHI: Gimme Housing, Not the ED: A New Campaign for Housing the Homeless
WIHI: Patient Safety Officer: One Person’s Title, Everyone’s Responsibility
WIHI: OpenNotes and the Electronic Medical Record
WIHI: All Hospitals in Favor of Saving Money: Say “Patient Flow!”
WIHI: Getting Down to Business…and Health Care Reform
WIHI: New Ways to Reduce Diagnosis Errors
WIHI: The Future of Nursing
WIHI: Quality Care During Advanced Illness: What Do Patients Want That Works?
WIHI: Run, Don’t Walk! The Urgent Need for Patient Safety
WIHI: Reducing Avoidable Visits to the Emergency Department
WIHI: The Medical Home
WIHI: Next Waves of Health Care Reform
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