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Patient Care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, optometry, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers. It also refers to the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.
Negative and Positive Impact of Computer Applications on Patient Care
Background
Health information technology (IT) systems have the potential to reduce medical errors, but they are likewise capable of causing unexpected mistakes if poorly implemented, according to a new study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). In Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, the Committee on Patient Safety and Health IT examines the current state of patient safety through health IT and provides recommendations for future improvements to electronic systems.
The adoption of health IT systems such as electronic health records (EHR) and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) does not guarantee an increase in patient safety. According to the authors, these systems themselves pose a risk to patients:
In fact, health IT can be a contributing factor to adverse events, such as the overdosing of patients because of poor user interface design, failing to detect life threatening illnesses because of unclear information displays, and delays in treatment because of the loss of data. Adverse events, such as these, have led to serious injuries and death.
Traditionally, the process of organizing, storing, integrating, and retrieving medical and patient information has been paper based. But paper-based systems are inefficient for managing enormous amounts of medical and patient information that can affect patient care. For example:
The conventional medical record may be illegible because it is hand written and poorly organized, making it difficult for
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, optometry, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers. It also refers to the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.
Negative and Positive Impact of Computer Applications on Patient Care
Background
Health information technology (IT) systems have the potential to reduce medical errors, but they are likewise capable of causing unexpected mistakes if poorly implemented, according to a new study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). In Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, the Committee on Patient Safety and Health IT examines the current state of patient safety through health IT and provides recommendations for future improvements to electronic systems.
The adoption of health IT systems such as electronic health records (EHR) and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) does not guarantee an increase in patient safety. According to the authors, these systems themselves pose a risk to patients:
In fact, health IT can be a contributing factor to adverse events, such as the overdosing of patients because of poor user interface design, failing to detect life threatening illnesses because of unclear information displays, and delays in treatment because of the loss of data. Adverse events, such as these, have led to serious injuries and death.
Traditionally, the process of organizing, storing, integrating, and retrieving medical and patient information has been paper based. But paper-based systems are inefficient for managing enormous amounts of medical and patient information that can affect patient care. For example:
The conventional medical record may be illegible because it is hand written and poorly organized, making it difficult for