Change Proposal

Running head: CHANGE PROPOSAL
Ashley Ballesteros
1/21/2019
Grand Canyon University
Ashley Hartman
HLT-494-O101
Change Proposal

1CHANGE PROPOSAL
Change Proposal
Medication errors leading to fatal outcomes among patient pool account for the third
largest death toll among US population. Medication errors due to adverse drug effects are the
most common, occurring at a rate of 6.5 per 100 hospital admissions (Kachalia &
Bates,2014). These include errors in drug prescription, transcription, dispensing as well as
drug administration. A substantial amount of evidence shows that the medication errors are
highly reported due to prescription and administration of drugs (Kachalia & Bates, 2014).
These medication errors lead to irreversible fatal outcomes and cause high costs on both
patient and hospital organizations. Prevention of medication errors has therefore become a
significant priority; mounting evidence suggests the use of information technology system as
a strategy to reduce medication errors as well as save health costs.
Information technology system
The complex process of clinical decision making in health care is dependent on the
human ability to provide patient specific attention and thereafter recollect and synthesize new
information based on knowledge. These are highly error prone areas; here comes information
technology system which improves the access to information, provide appropriate
organization identifying the links in between. Clinicians have the information; however they
make errors when they forget to recollect during prescribing drugs. Information technology
systems provide benefit in bridging this gap between knowledge and putting it together
during prescription (Zhang et al., 2013). This computerized system enables the clinicians in
accurate decision making through making availability of all necessary relevant information.
Information technology in medication
Prescription errors are eliminated through computerized physician order entry
(CPOE) involving patient specific decision support promoting patient safety (Kachalia &