IT initiatives at your facility

[Nurse Pam]

1) What areas in healthcare can IT have a major influence? I have observed during my 20 + years in nursing that clinical documentation takes up 75% or more of my time.


In your experience, which IT initiatives at your facility (if any) have had a positive impact on your ability to coordinate and deliver nursing activities related to the patient? If you have a success story – or a cautionary tale that could help turn someone else turn THEIR efforts into a success story – I’d like to hear from you.

Nurse Pam
pmullins@pmcorp.com

[ewilliams]

When I recently taught simulation at the University of Michigan - Dearborn, I naturally assigned a term project to student teams. One very successful project used simulation to suggest improvements a hospital in-house pharmacy could (and did) undertake to improve timeliness of service to the nurses on the patient floors. The hospital pharmacy was in another wing of the same hospital. Simulation helped the pharmacy reduce the request-to-delivery time interval of prescriptions -- often especially important when the prescription was for a powerful analgesic. A description of this work appears in the application paper Williams, Edward J., and Vanessa Harp. 2003. Improving Logistical Procedure Within a Hospital Inpatient Pharmacy. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Harbour, Maritime and Logistics Modelling & Simulation, eds. Yuri Merkuryev, Agostino G. Bruzzone, Galina Merkuryeva, Leonid Novitsky, and Edward Williams, 137-141.

[samathapetrik]

some the fields like it and the health care there is need of proper rotation of the generated standards like what it can driven such a standards like you can switch the potensial perception about the standards managements etc .