According to the BWH study, in some cases an increase of potential adverse drug events was possible, especially when every dose of medications was not scanned. For barcode scanning technology to work as designed, every medication dose would have to Continue Reading...
EMR
Organizational change plan
Introducing electronic medical records (EMR)
Along with expanding health coverage to more Americans, one of the goals of recent federal policy has been the widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) by h Continue Reading...
Anesthesia Record Keeping Needs to Change
Healthcare Informatics is a growing field (Ben-assuli, 2015). Because electronic record keeping has been shown to improve quality, decrease medical errors, improve documentation and decrease cost, there has Continue Reading...
Medication Administration Tech
Policy and Procedure Change Bar Code Reader System for Medication Administration
Though the Utah State Hospital has an integrated electronic prescription system there is no evidence that the institution utilizes bar c Continue Reading...
EHR System Challenges
What are the physicians trying to accomplish through buying the same EHR product at their hospital? What are the pros and cons?
The physicians are attempting to achieve a way to make it simpler to attain all of the records of Continue Reading...