The article I read for this week is “Taking Minutes.” I chose this article because I think I had completely missed the idea and importance of this topic, and missed this question on the quiz :) ,so I decided to read little more about it. Therefore in simple words, Minutes are just simple note taking technique used in business world. The person, who is taking the minutes, should summarize the activities of the whole meeting, besides trying to write down everything. Writer should include topic of decision, idea, mission and the conclusion, members came up with. Minutes should be taken at the meeting time and can be written as rough notes. Later minutes should be neatly typed and should be kept as record.
Then, the Quality tool I chose for this week is “Reducing errors in healthcare field.” Millions of people died everyday from medical errors. It cost more than five million dollars per patient to per hospital. Mostly error occurred by wrong medications; during, after or before surgery, misdiagnosis, and many more. These errors can be avoided to save lives. Computerized ADE, reminders, and computerized protocols (used for treatment) can help healthcare to save lives and reduces medical error. This tool makes me think about the importance the EHR. I think, EHR not only will make our life easier (save us from paper records), it will also help us to save many lives as well. The real life example was discussed in HIMSS meeting this summer, where a hospital in Texas has saved many lives with ADE and reminder system.
Article and quality tool can be find at : http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/errors.htm, http://www.resourcecentre.org.uk/information/events/info_pdf/Minutes.pdf
1 comment:
Great topics but comments sounded more like a summary than specific things learned from the article. Focus in on one or two issues that were unique or interesting about the topic and then expound on them.
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