Question

Work from Patient Safety course please don't copy and paste ?

3. The author listed four steps for providers to keep in mind when using HIT implementation as a tool to improve overall patient safety efforts. Briefly explain the purpose of HIT implementation. Who is responsible for HIT implementation? Why? How much input does the normal practitioner have in this?

Answer 1

Purposes of HIT implementation:
• To improve the healthcare quality
• To increase the productivity of the health care services
• To prevent medical errors thus increasing the health care accuracy
• To increase the effectiveness of health care administrators
• To decrease the paperwork and the time spent
• To promote communications between the health care professionals
• To expand the access to affordable care.
It is a shared responsibility of the stakeholders for the HIT implementation. The stakeholders are vendors, health care providers, health care organizations, health IT department, public and private agencies. It is useful to maintain the security, safety of the patient and to avoid errors.
The physicians should be included in the implementation process because it helps to develop a positive attitude towards adopting and using the technology. It also has an impact physician satisfaction and system success. They are a potential source of data and ideas.