Question

You are considering an administrative position at Meda Medical Center, a hospital focused on both clinical research and tertiary patient care. This medical center has multiple centers of excellence—e.g., in cancer, pediatric medicine, and cardiac surgery—as well as several focal areas on hospital and patient care performance improvement. Specifically, you are interviewing for a position on the “bedside barcoding” team, which is tasked with developing and implementing new processes for barcoding all clinical equipment and procedures used in individual patient care (with a specific emphasis on patients undergoing and/or recovering from basic surgical procedures). By doing this, the medical center believes that costs can be better tracked—and thus controlled—and that medical errors can be reduced by reducing the paperwork components of drug dispensing, equipment availability, and clinical support staff allocations (e.g., respiratory therapist scheduling). The expectation of your supervisor is that you will not only help brainstorm new ideas and process improvements but meet with the providers to train them on the barcoding system. 1.What obstacles do you think you will encounter? 2.Do you believe that this system will affect costs, explain your answer? Hints – 1. Think about the workflow exercise that we did I the beginning of the semester. 2. There is no right or wrong answer but your answer, which you will need to defend.

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PAGE NO:- 01 Ans: Medical Errors are one of the Major concerns of one site health care. These errors can reduce with the automatic identification technologies such as 'Barcode'. Barcode technology can prevent medical errors 34 o riding detailed and reliable information to the site ok patient care. The barcode is one of the most powerful and economical method of improving the patient safety. While many health care organizations do not tend to apply the barcode system due to lack of proper understanding through the technology and its systend requirements. Considering the importance of effective using the barcodes and remoting the barrier of using this technology, this study aimed to examine the requerement and barriers for using barcode technology in hospitals affiliated to any recognised medical science coonal The barriers for using the barcodes were studied in two aspects fast the barriers which hospitals may deal with prior to the implementation of sarcodes; and the second, the difficulties and barriers that could have arisen ofter & adaptation of barcodes and can stop using them. Afty percent studied Hospitals had not using the barcodes policy. However, in the other 50% of Hospitals, there was the use of barcode policy, but neglect, poor attention and also the absence or weakness of identified and detailed planning on the process of implementing prevents of application. DO P. To ->

PAGE 1100-02 Venee The lack of qualified personnel for implementation and lock of integration of bar codes with his system in the rodiology and how Laboratory section was observed in the half of the hospitals in the doy of studied hospitals, there was understanding of the requirement for implementation. Noteworthy 70% of participants believed that lack of weakness of policy" establishing by'-lhe authorities along with the negli o n e hospitals management prevents the planning for opplication of the barcodes. Additionally, 20% of them stated that lack of knowledge towards the concept and importance of using barcoder cause is where thening and Thesis tance due to negligence of applying this technology a the weakness sense for adoption of the assigned duties has been mentioned as one of the maid barriers for application of barcodee process ? - DAS Cost affect of Barcoding system on On the other hand barcooling system in medical system increase the cost but only one time , You can say that it is one time statement it can save money from fraud, correeption, etc so we can soy that overall it connot affect cost so much. Thanks