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Healthcare Policy Issues And Implications Essay

In essence, it incentivizes both wellness and economic responsibility (Kennedy, 2006; Reid 2009). Healthcare Information Technology in Relation to Cost and Quality Control

In my clinical experience, modern healthcare information technology has impacted my practice beneficially in two principal ways: (1) by helping to eliminate provider errors in medication administration, and (2) by providing quantitative data to help identify weaknesses in healthcare delivery. The use of computerized medication logging has frequently flagged errors in medication administration that, in all likelihood, would not have been prevented without the computer system. Typical examples in my experience have included instances of overmedication, incorrect selection of medications, and contraindicated combinations of medications that had escaped the attention of prescribing providers and nurses responsible for actual medication administration.

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More specifically, requiring healthcare providers to log certain precautionary measures has ensured improved levels of compliance with various institutional protocols that had previously been violated frequently with detrimental results and patient outcomes. In those cases, the information system data were used to identify the potential sources of the problems, first. Then, they were used to monitor compliance with the required solutions established by institutional administrators because they provided a means of confirming compliance by supervisors at the nursing unit level.
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Kennedy, E. (2006). America: Back on Track. Viking: New York.

Reid, T. (2009). The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.…

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Kennedy, E. (2006). America: Back on Track. Viking: New York.

Reid, T. (2009). The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. New York: Penguin Group.
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