To provide a safe environment for wandering residents, the health care providers face many challenges. It is a general premise that Information technology (IT) can address these challenges in enhancing health care services for wandering residents. The providing case study “Hacienda Home for the Aged” illustrates the issues of Hacienda Home regarding to the health of wandering residents. Hacienda Home is composed of a very active “Residence Council” and a very active and involved “Family Council”, and Maria Sanchez is its chief executive officer. She is aware to address the solutions of technological issues at Hacienda Home because the home is based on an important principle, “commitment to ensuring the home like atmosphere and to contacting …show more content…
As a result of which, the disruption of work-flows for medical staff and providers resulting in temporary losses of productivity as well as risk of patient privacy violations due to the increasing amount of health information exchanged electronically. 2- Network Control and Flexibility System require …show more content…
They could fall, or get into an accident, or suffer from exposure to the elements. Although instruments are available to help assess wandering risk, but physical barriers to wandering, for example, door locks can be used to restrict patients to a safe area. Residents can also be equipped with transmitting devices, for example, wristband or bracelets that alert staff members when the resident nears an alarm point or that use electromagnetism to lock doors automatically as the resident approaches; however, any automatic door locking system should be configured to deactivate during a fire emergency. Fitting cognitively impaired residents with electronic alert bands does invite concerns about privacy and
As a nursing home model, Green Houses are obviously providers of long-term care services, including basic nursing and medical services. According to Kane et al., “A group of GHs on a campus or scattered in a residential neighborhood operates under a nursing home license and within a state’s usual Medicaid reimbursement amounts, although a redistribution of expenditures could occur (2007). Researchers of healthcare management (and healthcare managers themselves) have an interest in studying the differences healthcare management variables that arise between different nursing home models. Healthcare management factors of interest include a model’s financial feasibility (especially for nursing home services covered by some public funds, like Medicaid),
The quality of the home care must meet the essentials of the patients or service seekers. But it never means to fulfil the basic needs or requirements of the individuals who are seeking the service. On the other hand, if the home care is not able to meet the basic needs of the patients then this is important to analyse the certain reasons behind this (Janamian, et. al., 2014).
First to identify factors that contribute to a patient falling. Many patients that are appear to be at a high fall risk and appropriate for the use of a bed alarm are patients who are cognitively impaired, who have an unsteady gait, patients that have many wires or lines and need the assistance of a nurse or patient care assistant (PCA) to ambulate and patients who are a threat to violence. Other factors that many contribute to falls include the bed or chair exit alarm not being turned on, the alarm not being properly set up, family members turning off the bed alarm or trying to assist the patient to get out of bed, alarm malfunction, or infrequent checks on the patient to ensure they are comfortable a...
Health care and health care information are turning to become unity and are working together to facilitate improvement of health care quality and equity. Therefore, health providers and other relevant stakeholders must strive to put in place strong measures capable of effecting heightened privacy and security precautions. More transparency must also be ensured when medical care organizations and institutions are handling patient’s medical data.
Security problems generally involve a leak of information because of the type of technology being used in clinical and online practice, such as computers, mobile devices (e.g., cell phones or tablets), email, voicemail, fax machines, electronic records on large servers, and the Internet when administering psychological services online. Regrettably, protection of confidentiality has yet to catch up with the majority of these technological advancements. Some of the primary threats to the security of confidentially information originates from things like web or email viruses, online hackers looking to access information, flaws in software or firewalls, damage or malfunction to the technology itself, and user error (Regueiro et al.,
The purpose of this paper is to distinguish, outline, and evaluate the affects that workarounds have on patient safety and quality. According to Alexander, Frith, and Hoy (2015), a workaround is defined as when a problems arise within the workflow and a worker uses an unauthorized way around the health information technology system. This being said, workarounds are present in the hustle and bustle of the stressful hospital workflow, and in return can potentially lead to negative consequences. Therefore, it is essential for health care professionals to recognize the workaround, analyze their workflow, and then develop possible solutions.
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Advances in technology have influences our society at home, work and in our health care. It all started with online banking, atm cards, and availability of children’s grades online, and buying tickets for social outings. There was nothing electronic about going the doctor’s office. Health care cost has been rising and medical errors resulting in loss of life cried for change. As technologies advanced, the process to reduce medical errors and protect important health care information was evolving. In January 2004, President Bush announced in the State of the Union address the plan to launch an electronic health record (EHR) within the next ten years (American Healthtech, 2012).
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Electronic Medical Records (EMR), affects healthcare delivery. I will discuss the positives and negatives this issue has on healthcare and how it effects the cost and quality for healthcare services. In addition, I will identify any potential trade-offs to cost or quality. Lastly, I will discuss how the EMR affects my job as well as any challenges or opportunities this issue presents.
According to the report provided by the consultant, the employees at this facility were not taking precautions in safeguarding the patient’s health information. Therefore, the employees at this facility were in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). It is important for employees to understand the form of technology being used and the precautions they must take to safeguard patient information.
Also, these studies question those who are effected; in this case, those who are most effected, is everyone. Doctors and nurses spend the most time working within these systems, but the information that is put into these systems effects every individual in America, because it is their information. Because nurses are often considered “both coordinators and providers of patient care” and they “attend to the whole patient,” their opinion is highly regarded (Otieno, Toyama, Asonuma, Kanai-Pak, & Naitoh, 2007, p. 210). It is clear that the use of these new systems is much debated, and many people have their own, individualized opinion. This information suggests that when there is a problem in the medical field, those who address it attempt to gather opinions from everyone who is involved before proceeding. It has been proven by multiple studies that this system of record keeping does in fact have potential to significantly improve patient health through efficiency, and it is because of this that the majority of hospitals have already completed, or begun the transfer from paperless to electronic (Otieno, Toyama, Asonuma, Kanai-Pak, & Naitoh,
...s in the health industry. It is set to change the way doctors and patient’s access information as it will make information more available in a clear and efficient way.
1-800-MALPRACTICE Website Wandering and Elopement Supervision and security are two of the most important aspects of care in any nursing home or assisted living facility. If one or both of those elements are insufficient or lacking, it is likely that residents may engage in the harmful practice of wandering or elopement. Wandering, in a nursing home or other long-term care facility setting, is defined by The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) as “meandering, aimless, or repetitive locomotion that exposes the individual to harm; frequently incongruent with boundaries, limits, or obstacles.”
The health care is extremely important to society because without health care it would not be possible for individuals to remain healthy. The health care administers care, treats, and diagnoses millions of individual’s everyday from newborn to fatal illness patients. The health care consists of hospitals, outpatient care, doctors, employees, and nurses. Within the health care there are always changes occurring because of advance technology and without advance technology the health care would not be as successful as it is today. Technology has played a big role in the health care and will continue in the coming years with new methods and procedures of diagnosis and treatment to help safe lives of the American people. However, with plenty of advance technology the health care still manages to make an excessive amount of medical errors. Health care organizations face many issues and these issues have a negative impact on the health care system. There are different ways medical errors can occur within the health care. Medical errors are mistakes that are made by health care providers with no intention of harming patients. These errors rang from communication error, surgical error, manufacture error, diagnostic error, and wrong medication error. There are hundreds of thousands of patients that die every year due to medical error. With medical errors on the rise it has caused the United States to be the third leading cause of death. (Allen.M, 2013) Throughout the United States there are many issues the he...
(2013) among 40 care workers in the same facility. The study came out with the four major themes; (i) acknowledgment of the patient, it is about recognizing a person’s physical, psychological and social needs, (ii) recognition as an individual, everyone is different from the other, they are unique individuals that needs to be understood, (iii) value of the relationship, it is related to the feelings and warmth which they receive from their friends, family and even the carers. It also resembles the bonding between residents and staff, (iv) encouragement of independence, it is about the environment of the care homes and residents’ right to decision and independence. Apart from these, barriers were also identified which were time, system constraints and process of evaluation and planning.