Question

(1) How can healthcare information systems minimize or reduce the number of errors in healthcare?

(2) What is “Clinical Transformation” and how does it impact quality?

(3) What is “Continuous Quality Improvement” (CQI) and how can CQI interact with healthcare IT projects?

Answer 1

Answer 1) Healthcare information systems can minimize or reduce the number of errors in healthcare in a following way:

• With the help of technologies such as automated dispensing, personal health records, barcode medication administration and computerized physician order entry, medication errors have reduced and minimized up to great extent.
• Healthcare information systems provide full and accurate medication history. There are digital records that can shared with doctors to achieve quality treatment.

Answer 2) Clinical transformation can be described as a transformation that involves improving and assessing way of delivering the medical care to the patients. This transformation is needed when there are less effective results obtained from existing practice.

It impacts quality in following way:

• It embraces quality care through redesigning of the medical processes through IT implementation. It helps to achieve common goals of patient safety.
• By blending technology, people and processes, this transformation can be applied at all levels of clinical fields.

?Answer 3) Continuous Quality Improvement? can be described as process in which workers and management creates an environment to improve quality.

It interact with healthare IT projects in a following way:

• It looks for the outcomes and tools required to quantify what we do.
• It analyze and report information on regular basis to monitor client satisfaction, functioning of operations and quality of service delivery.