Patient Safety and Care Quality

PATIENT SAFETY AND CARE QUALITY
ROLE OF HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS

Content Layout
 Introduction
 What is patient safety and care quality?
 What is health information system?
 What are the various laws and policies of health care?
 Assessment
 How health information system help the organization meet patient safety goals?
 How organizations excel in patient care following the related health policies?
 Is health information system enough to meet quality patient safety and care?
 Recommendations
 What are the measures to improve quality of health care( if any)?
 Conclusion
 Reference list

Introduction
Patient safety in one word could be defined as the prevention of any kind of harm to patients.
Nursing is the key to quality improvement for patient safety and care quality (Barbazza & Tello,
2014). Patient care quality delivery system emphasis on
• prevention of errors
• learning from previously occurred errors if any
• the safety culture involving health professionals, patients and healthcare organizations.
A number of patient safety practices help diminishing safety errors and improve health care process
in health organizations such as
• Use of simulators
• Bar coding system
• Computerized order entry and
• Crew resource management.

Introduction
Health Information System
Health Information System is a system designed to manage data related to healthcare services. The
system collects, stores and manages a patient’s electronic data records in pace with the operational
management system of the organization (Braithwaite, Marks & Taylor, 2014). Health care policies are
also followed while developing a Health Information System.
The health planners and healthcare decision makers rely on a number of information that need to be
collected before implementation of the Health Information System such as,
• Socio-economic, genetic, behavioral and environmental health determinant factors
• Health care policies, infrastructure, facilities and equipment, financial costs, and human resources
• Outputs of health system including quality, availability and accessibility of information and lowering
health risks
• Health outcomes including mortality, disease outbreak, morbidity, disability, health status and well
being.
• Other health inequities such as reliability, usability and comprehensive data collection methods.