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: End-of-Life Care and How Communities Can Become "Conversation Ready"
WIHI: 10 Things Every Hospital Needs to Know to Be Safe
WIHI: The Road to Team-Based Primary Care and Behavioral Health
WIHI: 100 Million Healthier Lives by 2020
WIHI: Better Care and Better Value for Hip and Knee Replacement
WIHI: Mental Health Care in the Hospital: Preventing Harm, Promoting Safety
WIHI: From Here to CLER: Graduate Medical Education and the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER)
WIHI: Tread Water No More! Making Sense of Patient Experience Data
WIHI: Preventing Financial Harm to Patients: The Costs of Care Initiative
WIHI: From Prehospital to In-Hospital: The Continuum for Time-Sensitive Care
WIHI: New Roles, New Routes for Managing Populations
WIHI: Making the Work of QI Less Draining and More Sustaining
WIHI: The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Early Results, Tough Scrutiny
WIHI: Partnering with Patients for Safety: The Next Phase of Work and Commitment
WIHI: Transforming Tensions and Tempers on Health Care Teams
WIHI: Reclaiming Empathy — Best Practices for Engaging with Patients
WIHI: Bright Spots for Patients with Complex Needs
WIHI: How High? How Low? Shared Decision Making Amidst Shifting (Hypertension) Guidelines
WIHI: Mobilizing Skilled Nursing Facilities to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations
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