Improving Patient Safety Information And Information Technology In The Healthcare System

Patient care technology has become increasingly complex, transforming the way nursing care is conceptualized and delivered. Before extensive application of technology, nurses relied heavily on their senses of sight, touch, smell, and hearing to monitor patient status and to detect changes (Powell-Cope, Nelson &Patterson, 2008). Information technology has played a vital role in the innovation of health care system. There is a lot of innovation in the healthcare and most of them has a positive impact in the healthcare. These healthcare innovation had improved patient quality of care and outcomes by improving clinical outcomes, diagnosis, treatment and improved patient safety Information and information exchange are crucial to the delivery of care on all levels of the health care delivery system the patient, the care team, the health care organization, and

I have gained a lot of good information from this class. I did learned about the physician order entry, this program has reduced the incidence of medication interaction ,by using this system physician can easily detect drug allergy and if there is any duplicate the system will detect it . Quality improvement through IT has opened my eyes on how technology positively impacting patient safety and patient outcomes .one good example is Scan medication and scan patient's arm band for identification. This has tremendously reduced medication error . Another innovation I learned in this class was the Cyber Knife Radio surgery, this is a painless noninvasive surgery. I was impresses to hear that physicians can use a cyber-knife to deliver high doses of radiation with great accuracy to treat tumor anywhere in the body without affecting health tissues, physicians can treat several tumors in different locations. I was happy to learned that Most of the time these patient go home on the same