Question

What are IT applications that improve quality care and patient safety ?

Answer 1

Quality care and patient safety practices protect patients from preventable harm associated with health care services..
? A new health system for the 21st century states that follows:-
-Safe
-Effective
-Patient-centered
-Timely
-Efficient
-Equitable
?Electronic health records(EHR):-
? -It improves quality and safety as compared to paper records..
? -It gives doctor,patients to access relevant patient information..
? -It includes to ability to store and retrieve data,medication safety and decreases the risk of medications errors..
   -It offers in the form of electronic clinical decision support(CDS)
? -It improves care outcomes by making timely information,sound decisions,available to the care team
? -EHRs make meeting quality-reporting program requirements more efficient
   -EHRs systems also play a role in improving population health..
Clinical Decision support(CDS) helps physicians talk with patients about which imaging tests are appropriate for their situation..
?    In health IT,the extent to which the user-interface design makes it easy and reduce the human error..
?System configuration includes the EHR system's physical environment,the hard ware and software infrastructure and the maintenance processes..
? guide to improving care processes and outcomes in health certers for disease control and prevention..
? Quality Improvement professionals,health IT professionals,and clinicians who want to understand the technical specifications for eCQM reporting..For example U.S Texas children's hospital dicovered that their antenatal steroid administration rates were much higher than the EMR-reported data..
?However,improvement is needed with all health IT,especially regarding design,implementation,and integration between platforms within the work environment..
? The American Medical Informatics Association(AMIA) has developed uses electronic information and communication to improve medical outcomes..
? An Electronic PHR(personal health records) can exists as a stand-alone application that is linked to a specific health care organization's information system..
? Peer interaction systems: these application can increase the perceived peer support and improve personal and social outcomes..

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