Patient safety concerns

The fact of being tracked by medical systems and other tools annoy some patients and others considered it as a matter of privacy invasion harassment. After all; it seems as though there is some of misunderstanding from patients about the ordinary regulations that should be applied. Matter of keeping full data history about patients in one panel of data (EHR) somehow builds worries and personal tension among society members. Such makes them doubtful and feel insecure regarding their data destiny and personal information processing of their medical history. The real mission here not only to protect their data but also to give them enough impression about the data safety and storage enable to build trustworthy threshold between them and medical systems in generals. Safety concern among medical organization is old new topic of reach and ongoing discussions. ECRI Institute is an independent non-profit organization that researches to get approaches to improving patient care, 2015 they released top ten list of patient safety among organization. We are going to discuss them briefly as follow:

1. Alarm Hazards: Inadequate Alarm Configuration Policies and Practices; alarm fatigue is the main core of discussion due to excessive alarms activations happened in the same time. What make patents subsequently miss a lot of alarms and personal medical notifications leading ultimately to loss the truthfulness about working system. “Our accident investigations have found that hospitals have either not had consistent or not had any practices to determine how alarms are set by care area or by patient type,” says James P. Keller, MS, vice president, health technology evaluation and safety, ECRI Institute.

2. Data Integrity: Incorrect or Missing Data in EHRs and Other Health IT Systems; Although medical staff got capable of being precisely work with numerous data but still there is no till now tool could and be able to insert data than humankind by themselves. Some trials have carried out to record voices and transform them later into written forms of data but all under research trials and need approval over large scale yet. The experience advice from many of data engineers that prefer to go slow when they start loading data inside systems, from their point of view the best way to avoid many mistakes!.

3. Managing Patient Violence; the violence manifestations regularly happen between patients in particular situations even if the medical staff meant well-being services. Poor patients demands management and inferior communication lead eventually to violence. For sure habits of society and culture play indirect role in somehow as in cold weather societies people prefer to be silence even for hours than to be pulled in violation action while in sunny hot societies the opposite.

4. Mix-Up of IV Lines Leading to Misadministration of Drugs and Solutions; it refers to medical administration to the patients such as, wrong dose, wrong medicines, unfavourable consequences…etc.

5. Care Coordination Events Related to Medication Reconciliation; “the patient’s medications should be reconciled to ensure the patient is on the correct medications for the next phase of care,” says Mary Beth Mitchell, patient safety analyst and consultant at ECRI Institute.

In order to avoid long post the rest of the patient safety concerns would be completed in the next one. Full health J