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.
WIHI: How to Speak Up for Safety
WIHI: Building Systems of Safety
WIHI: Engaging and Supporting Family Caregivers
WIHI: Improving Patient Experience: What's Working, What's Not
WIHI: What's Next for Electronic Health Records
WIHI: How Health Care Can Accelerate Health Equity
WIHI: 100 Million Healthier Lives: From Vision to Reality
WIHI: Five Practical Strategies for Managing Successful Improvement Projects
WIHI: Nurturing Trust: Addiction and Maternal and Newborn Health
WIHI: Health Care in Motion: Making Sense of a Moving Picture
WIHI: Joy in Work: An Antidote to Today's Burnout in Health Care
WIHI: The Opioid Crisis: How Health Care and the Community Can Act
WIHI: Breaking the Rules: Lessons from IHI’s Leadership Alliance
WIHI: The New World of Co-producing Health and Health Care
WIHI: A New Framework for Safety in Ambulatory Care
WIHI: Making Data Work for Quality Improvement
WIHI: Morality Matters: How to Reset the Mission of Quality Improvement
WIHI: New Tools and Thinking for Shared Decision Making
WIHI: Realizing “What Matters” (to Patients and Families)
WIHI: Personal Mastery for Transformational Leadership
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