Chilean Mining Accident BCOM 275 Donald Marrin 4/8/12 Brittney Preece "On Aug. 5‚ 2010‚ a gold and copper mine near the northern city of Copiapó‚ Chile caved in‚ trapping 33 miners in a chamber about 2‚300 feet below the surface. For 17 days‚ there was no word on their fate. As the days passed‚ Chileans grew increasingly skeptical
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Trends and Data Management Medication Errors Kim Orta University of Phoenix Health Care Informatics HCS 482 Mary Trevino October 24‚ 2013 Data Collection Tools EMR (Electronic Medical Record) EHR (Electronic Health Record) CPOE Computerized Provider Order Entry) UOR (Unusual Occurrence Report) Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Provide complete‚ reliable access to health information Improves safety and outcomes Reduces and prevents medication errors “EHRs don’t just contain and transmit
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After specifying the inclusion criteria of “clinical documentation‚” “documentation errors‚” and “physicians” as well as the exclusion criteria of “nursing‚” the final number of articles included were 15. The articles reviewed clinical documentation process and strategies along with the impact of documentation errors made by physicians. A summary of the articles can be seen below in Table 1. Documentation Errors and Financial Correlations: Zhang et al. (2013)‚ copy and pasting within electronic
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Medication errors According to The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (2015)‚ medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional‚ patient‚ or consumer. Medication can be harmless but with mistakes in prescribing‚ dispensing and administering medications‚ it can cause injury to all population groups while impacting our public
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and Errors JEFFERY MCCOMAS‚ MSN‚ RN‚ CNS MICHELLE RIINGEN‚ DNP‚ RN‚ CNS-BC SON CHAE KIM‚ PhD‚ RN Congress authorized an initiative in 2004 to create a national health information technology infrastructure to improve patient outcomes through increased efficiency.1 The stated goal was to have electronic health records (EHRs) implemented for all Americans by 2014.2‚3 The current literature supports the use of EHR because of the potential for higher quality of care‚ reduction in medication errors‚ ease
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Reduce Risk for Errors CPOE and EMR have been known to decrease medical errors. EMR help prevent unnecessary orders and diagnostic test. EMR also prevents duplication of the same test and orders. Medication are shown in the electronic medical record which providers have access to. The ability to access a patient’s medications without having to rely on just patient information will lower risk. A patient may not always be certain of a dosage or the exact name of a medication and the electronic medical
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Electronic Medical Records- Reduce Errors and Increase Efficiency with EMR Software Errors in the healthcare industry can literally cost someone his or her life‚ not to mention open the door for an unending mountain of lawsuits. In order to reduce the chances of this happening‚ your healthcare organization must be proactive about increasing efficiency‚ and reducing errors. These are two common problems that plague the healthcare industry. With electronic medical records you can significantly reduce
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Errors and Compliance in Coding The integrity of the request for payment rests on the accuracy and honesty of the coding and billing within a practice. Incorrect work could simply be an error‚ or it could represent a deliberate effort to obtain fraudulent payment. Medical billers and coders are responsible for ensuring that these errors are limited and promptly fixed. Among the most common causes of errors in coding and billing are truncated coding‚ up-coding or down-coding‚ and using an inappropriate
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My First Car Accident First of all‚ I must say that I could never imagine how ten seconds of life could change a person’s view on his whole existence. Three weeks ago my whole life changed because of one drunk driver. I own a small‚ two door vehicle‚ which is called Toyota Celica. This car is good if you like a nice smooth ride with outstanding mileage. That day‚ I was going north on I-95 through a heavy traffic. I stopped with the traffic in an enormous line of cars. I wanted to call my friend
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Fundamental Attribution Error The fundamental attribution error is when a person overestimates the influence of another person’s personality over a remark or behavior rather than giving credit to the influence the situation may have on the person. A famous experiment demonstrating this “error” was conducted by David Napolitan and George Goethals. In this experiment‚ they instructed a woman to act either rude and critical‚ or warm and friendly to each person individually. Half of the group was
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