Perhaps the biggest opportunity for improvement and reduction in error, is redesigning how clinicians communicate. Medicine is a team effort yet our tools are focused on the individual. When we take a step back and evaluate the systems through which healthcare workers communicate with each other, we are able to understand the gaps:
Perhaps the biggest opportunity for improvement and reduction in error, is redesigning how clinicians communicate. Medicine is a team effort yet our tools are focused on the individual. When we take a step back and evaluate the systems through which healthcare workers communicate with each other, we are able to understand the gaps:
Recent Research has shown that an alarming number of medical errors are based on communication gaps, either while taking patient history or during handoffs between care providers. In 2015, a benchmarking study conducted by CRICO (The Controlled Risk Insurance Company , providing coverage to Harvard affiliated medical organizations and their physicians) found that communication errors were responsible for over 1,700 deaths as well as additional costs of $ 1.7 billion, to the healthcare system.
I quickly realized the difference between my daily tech and health tech: the applications that I use in my daily life are built for me, the end-user. The technology that I use as a physician—the EHR—was built to satisfy the business of healthcare. Not the delivery of care.Â
Recently, TrekIT Health took a major step toward firming up its executive leadership team and governance structure. Veteran tech executive Rick Valencia has been appointed Executive Chairman of the company, advising and supporting strategic decision-making. The...
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