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Trends in Patient Safety Technologies, Second Edition |
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The newly updated Trends in Patient Safety Technologies, Second Edition details the increased emphasis on patient safety protocols, practices, and policies that have resulted from the recent rise of a number of oversight groups and independent organizations focused on quality improvement. The report examines the value of 15 patient safety technologies directly involved in clinical care delivery that the majority of facilities either do or expect to eventually implement. The updated report also addresses the changes that have occurred in the last two years with regards to the Healthcare IT industry’s most pressing safety questions.
In addition, Trends in Patient Safety Technologies, Second Edition describes key challenges that healthcare providers continue to face in the adoption of healthcare IT, including:
Assembled from the responses of hundreds of healthcare organizations across a diverse group of care providers, Trends in Patient Safety Technologies, Second Edition provides unprecedented insight into the latest technologies being implemented in healthcare today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1: Executive Summary
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Introduction
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Patient Safety Technologies
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Electronic Health Records
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Clinical Decision Support
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Computer-Based Prescriber Order Entry and E-Prescribing
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Standardized Order Sets
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Hardware at the Point-of-Care
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Identification and Tracking Tools
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Personal Health Records and Smart Cards
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The Key Challenges
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Clinical Documentation Standards
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Patient Safety Metrics
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Errors Associated With Automation
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Methodology
SECTION 2: Demographics
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Introduction
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Types and Sizes of Care Provider Organizations Represented
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Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Systems
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Non-Hospital-Based Care Providers
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Executives and Professionals Represented
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Base Number for Survey Respondents
SECTION 3: The Current Status of Patient Safety Programs
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Patient Safety: Always the Goal
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Most Important Patient Safety Issues and Drivers
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Patient Safety Projects
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Patient Safety Accountability
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Quality Improvement Programs
SECTION 4: Patient Safety Technologies
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The Importance of Electronic Health Records
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Clinical Care Technologies
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Electronic Health Records
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Clinical Decision Support
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Computer-Based Physician/Provider/Prescriber Order Entry
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Hardware
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E-Prescribing
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Standardized Order Sets
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Documentation at the Point-of-Care
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Identification and Tracking Tools
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Personal Health Records and Smart Cards
SECTION 5: Challenges to Implementing Technologies to Enhance Patient Safety
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Confronting Serious Obstacles
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Clinical Documentation Standards
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ICD-10
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SNOMED
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Patient Safety Metrics
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Errors Associated With Automation
APPENDICES
Appendix I: Verbatim Responses
Appendix II: Organizations and Companies Mentioned
Appendix III: List of Charts and Tables
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