Topic 5 DQ 2
Discuss ways your organization uses technology to gather patient and health care information,
and how this information and data are used to direct patient care and outcomes.
Reporting patient safety events is a useful approach for improving patient safety. The
mechanism was then extended to healthcare systems with additional features such
as anonymous reporting, meaningful feedback, ease of reporting. Through collecting
adverse events and near misses in healthcare, the reporting systems enable safety
specialists to analyze events, identify underlying factors, and generate actionable
knowledge to mitigate risks. Since the emergence of electronic patient safety
reporting (
e-reporting
) systems, the collection and analysis of events tend to
become a more efficient manner than traditional paper-based systems. However, the
promising benefits of such systems in healthcare are yet to be fully seen. Currently,
low quality reports have been found as a roadblock hampering the data utility for
quality improvement and patient safety research. It is reported that a large amount
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