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Leveraging Information Technology Towards Enhancing Patient Care and a Culture of Safety in the U.S.
OBJECTIVES: To heighten awareness about the critical issues currently affecting patient care and to propose solutions based on leveraging information technologies to enhance patient care and influence a culture of patient safety. METHODS: Presentation and discussion of the issues affecting health care today, such as medical and medication-related errors and analysis of their root causes; proliferation of medical knowledge and medical technologies; initiatives to improve patient safety; steps necessary to develop a culture of safety; introduction of relevant enabling technologies; and evidence of results. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Medical errors affect not only mortality and morbidity, but they also create secondary costs leading to dissatisfaction by both provider and patient...
Keywords: Medical errors, patient safety, information technology, computerized patient record, Physician order entry, clinical decision support, clinical outcomes, Evidence-based Medicine
01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerLaboratory network of excellence: enhancing patient safety and service effectiveness
Clinical laboratories have undergone major changes due to technological progress and economic pressure...
Keywords: clinical outcomes, errors and risk of error, laboratory network, patient safety quality indicators, total testing process
02/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterLaboratory network of excellence: enhancing patient safety and service effectiveness
Clinical laboratories have undergone major changes due to technological progress and economic pressure...
Keywords: Fehler und Fehlerrisiko, klinisches Ergebnis, Labornetz, Qualitätsindikator für Patientensicherheit, Testprozess
07/2006 | LaboratoriumsMedizin, Walter de Gruyter