Digital Technology in Patient Care: Implementation and Improvement of Electronic Medical Records Systems
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This paper examines the implementation of digital technology, specifically the FIBER electronic medical record system, in a healthcare organization to improve communication, collaboration, and efficiency across departments. The author identifies persistent gaps in medication management and communication between physicians and nurses as key areas requiring improvement to enhance patient safety and care quality.
What this essay covers
- Introduction: Benefits of digital technology adoption in healthcare organizations for competitive advantage
- FIBER System Implementation: Improvements in interdepartmental communication and patient record accessibility
- Identified Gaps: Medication management discrepancies and lack of nursing authority in medication documentation
- Recommendations: Enhanced medication reconciliation at admission and improved physician-nurse collaboration
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Digital Technology in Patient Care
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Digital technology has become a great solving solution for healthcare organizations. As for my organization that I work with, I recently noticed that it was for the benefit of the organization to change the technology system to be competitive in the market and improve collaboration, communication and efficiency (Jenssen, 2016). They identified gaps between departments and decided to use the new electronic medical record system all over the organization, which is FIBER.
FIBER has helped in improving the communication system across all departments of health care from laboratory technicians, nurses, pharmacy, patients, and generally the staff. Even if this system is allowing all health care departments to see the actions and entire plan for each patient, there are still more gaps that should be updated to improve patient care. The area involves medications (Jenssen, 2016). Because many physicians are not addressing home medication for patients when they are admitted, making them continue with other medications, which might be inaccurate. On the other hand, nurses don’t have powers to edit the medication, being they are the ones taking care of the patients. In medical practice, knowing the kind of medication patients take at home is very important for patient care in the Hospital. Giving the wrong dose changes how we treat our patients.
The problem always begins in the Admission wards, nurses on duty should take an accurate history of the patient including home medication.