Patient Safety and HIT Overview

Running Head: PATIENT SAFETY AND HIT OVERVIEW 1
PATIENT SAFETY AND HIT OVERVIEW
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PATIENT SAFETY AND HIT OVERVIEW 2
Patient Safety and HIT Overview
“The goal of health information technology is to inspire confidence and trust in health IT
and health information exchange” Health and Human Services (HHS) goal ensure that patients
have trust in their healthcare and healthcare information technology (Graber, Johnston & Bailey,
2016). There are increased worries on the safety, cost, as well as efficiency of healthcare systems
for the people which have made the national and attention on IT i.e. electronic health records.
This is an important step of solutions enabling the renovation of healthcare administration.
There exist some research and reviews articles that raise concerns on workflow
integration, the design of HER systems or poor implementation and they can paradoxically
facilitate errors of medication, increased mortality, and leads to dissatisfaction to the physician or
can also adversely affect the physician-patient relationship. It should be noted that health IT is
not without risks as suggested by a variety of case studies. It further provides with risk mitigation
strategies which are practically and clinically acceptable.
Substantial reduction of medication errors as well as the clinical decision being made
easily depending on evidence provided. Prescription and other errors that result from unreadable
handwriting are eliminated through the use of EHRs. As part of the clinical decision-making
process, clinicians are provided with best practice guidance and information allergies and
medication of certain patients with capabilities of HIT such as clinical decision support (CDS)
and computerized provider order entry (CPOE). Other support from CDS includes delivery of
care to patients based on clinical procedures like preventive care, immunization, and routine
screening tests.