Technology Target Studies: Technology Solutions to Make Patient Care Safer and More Efficient

Presents findings on technologies that could enhance care delivery, including patient records and medication processes; features and functionality nurses require, including tracking, interoperability, and hand-held capability; and best practices

Patient Monitoring Systems

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Computers in the Intensive Care Unit: A Match Meant To Be!

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Computerization and Quality Control of Monitoring Techniques

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NEOREG : design and implementation of an online neonatal registration system to access, follow and analyse data of newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus infection

Today's registration of newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection is still performed on paper-based forms in Flanders, Belgium. This process has a large administrative impact. It is imortant that all screening tests are registered to have a complete idea of the impact of cCMV. Although these registrations are usable in computerised data analysis, these data are not available in a format to perform electronic processing. An online Neonatal Registry (NEOREG) System was designed and developed to access, follow and analyse the data of newborns remotely. It allows patients' diagnostic registration and treatment follow-up through a web interface and uses document forms in Portable Document Format (PDF), which incorporate all the elements from the existing forms. Forms are automatically processed to structured EHRs. Modules are included to perform statistical analysis. The design was driven by extendibility, security and usability requirements. The website load time, throughput and execution time of data analysis were evaluated in detail. The NEOREG system is able to replace the existing paper-based CMV records

A Comparison of the Features and Functions Available in Electronic Health Records

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) (2007) estimates that medical errors transpire at a rate of 1.5 million per year. The IOM (2000), approximates 7,000 deaths per year are related to preventable medication errors, which are the leading cause of medical errors. Adverse drug events (ADE) occur due to medication errors, which are 100% preventable. Annually, approximately $21 billion dollars are spent to care for patients’ who experience ADE due to medication errors (IOM, 2007). This doctoral project evaluates the current features and available functions for pediatric medication administration within the electronic health record (EHR). This comparison explored the EHR functionalities across all pediatric services and compared those tools to the features utilized in pediatric anesthesia. The electronic charting systems evaluated include: neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), emergency department (ED), post anesthesia care unit (PACU), operating room (OR), nursery, pre-operative, general pediatric floor and anesthesia departments. The EHR evaluation determined the department with the greatest differences in the EHR and medication administration record (MAR) is the anesthesia environment. The pediatric weight-based medication dosage was available for all other departments; therefore the same feature should be accessible to anesthesia providers

Computerized Medical Care: The HELP System at LDS Hospital

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Medical Informatics in the Intensive Care Unit: State of the Art 1991

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The Computer for Charting and Monitoring

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Collaboration in Clinical Computing at LDS Hospital

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