Trends in Patient Safety Technologies, Second Edition

• Clinical Documentation Standards
• Patient Safety Metrics
• Errors Associated with Automation
• Cost of Implementation
• Staff Resistance

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.

SECTION 1: Executive Summary

• Introduction
• Patient Safety Technologies
• Electronic Health Records
• Clinical Decision Support
• Computer-Based Prescriber Order Entry and E-Prescribing
• Standardized Order Sets
• Hardware at the Point-of-Care
• Identification and Tracking Tools
• Personal Health Records and Smart Cards
• The Key Challenges
• Clinical Documentation Standards
• Patient Safety Metrics
• Errors Associated With Automation
• Methodology

SECTION 2: Demographics

• Introduction
• Types and Sizes of Care Provider Organizations Represented
• Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Systems
• Non-Hospital-Based Care Providers
• Executives and Professionals Represented
• Base Number for Survey Respondents

SECTION 3: The Current Status of Patient Safety Programs

• Patient Safety: Always the Goal
• Most Important Patient Safety Issues and Drivers
• Patient Safety Projects
• Patient Safety Accountability
• Quality Improvement Programs

SECTION 4: Patient Safety Technologies

• The Importance of Electronic Health Records
• Clinical Care Technologies
• Electronic Health Records
• Clinical Decision Support
• Computer-Based Physician/Provider/Prescriber Order Entry
• Hardware
• E-Prescribing
• Standardized Order Sets
• Documentation at the Point-of-Care
• Identification and Tracking Tools
• Personal Health Records and Smart Cards

SECTION 5: Challenges to Implementing Technologies to Enhance Patient Safety

• Confronting Serious Obstacles
• Clinical Documentation Standards
• ICD-10
• SNOMED
• Patient Safety Metrics
• Errors Associated With Automation