The Institute of Medicine Report on Patient Safety and Health IT is a notable contribution to the dialogue on how to make the American healthcare delivery system safer. Its recognition that "Continuing to use paper records can place patients at unnecessary risk for harm and substantially constrains the country’s ability to reform health care" is a strong endorsement for the path healthcare is on. HIMSS also agrees with the IOM that we should not be complacent; there are ways to make health information technology even safer and better for healthcare providers and the patients they serve.
HIMSS notes that the scope of the IOM’s Patient Safety & Health IT report was limited, focusing on making health IT safer. While the deficits of the paper-based system have been well-addressed by IOM in its past publications “To Err is Human” and “Crossing the Quality Chasm”, those deficits still should be noted. The paper-based health system, still in use in many clinical practices and hospitals across our nation, has profound deficiencies in failing to portray a full and up-to-the-minute picture of patients' conditions and care. The paper-based health system kills.
to read the full release from HIMSS please visit http://www.himss.org/ASP/ContentRedirector.asp?type=HIMSSNewsItem&ContentId=78785&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
No comments:
Post a Comment