Question

As it relates to the Baldrige Performance Excellence approach, how is Technology Innovations in Healthcare significant? Please explain with an example.

Answer 1

Answer: Technology plays important role in the healthcare system. The technology enable to have accurate diagnosis. It elevates the treatment outcome. It enhances the quality of care provided to the patients. The use of the technology provides platform to provide quality of care to the patients. One of the recent example of the technology EHR ( electronic health records system) This have ample of storage space to store the healthcare information of the patients. It reduces the burden of the staff and healthcare professionals. It decreases the burnout. The patient need not to provide their medical history on their every visit as once the information is saved can be used by the healthcare professionals for the patient treatment. It reduces the risk of paper or documents misplace. So, there are several advantages of technology in the healthcare. The another example is the use of the electronic prescription. This reduces the spelling error or the misunderstanding. It reduces medical error by providing better medicine that have been prescribed.