Better Patient Care with Advanced Technology and Accurate Medical Records

Better Patient Care with Advanced Technology and Accurate Medical Records Advances in medical technology including those in medical transcription services can ensure providers more time to ensure better patient care.

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Accurate and timely medical documentation promotes better medical care and patient safety. Recording all relevant information about a patient and the services provided to him/her helps practitioners monitor what’s been done and also minimize the risk of providing inappropriate care. Keen attention even to minor details reduces the chances of patients returning to hospitals and adding to healthcare costs. Outsourcing to a reliable provider of medical transcription services ensures quality medical documents.

Medical devices using advanced technology are emerging at a rapid pace, making medical procedures easier and highly efficient. In fact, the year 2017 was one of innovation in the healthcare industry and displayed newly developed technologies that can transform patient care.

The electronic health record allows physicians access to the complete medical history of their patients, which facilitates well-informed treatment plans that are just right for each patient. The medical charts can be accessed remotely and the physician can be alerted on medication errors, critical lab results, and so on. Other innovations used by various departments in hospitals are bar coding or RFID tag to help prevent medication errors and improve patient safety. According to the Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare report, “at its most basic level, barcode-assisted prevention of medication administration errors is predicated on verifying the “5 rights”; the right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, and right time.” RFID (radiofrequency identification) technology provides real-time tracking, identification, communication, temperature and location data on any person or resource. It ensures that the right patient receives the right medication.

Providers can quickly locate a patient and minimize errors while improving clinical workflow, studies point out.

Patient Should Take Charge of Their Health Healthcare professionals are now encouraging patients to take charge of their health.

This is because patients’ well-being stems from their ability to manage their own health in the long run.

Dr. Micheal Vallis, NSHA Dalhousie behavioural psychologist and

researcher says it is important to listen to patients, understand their problems, educate, and advise them, and motivate and support them. It is important to understand that only half of all medications prescribed are taken as directed by the physician, as the WHO points out. This calls for more awareness creation and patient education and participation.

Chris Delaney, Chief Executive of Insignia Health says research has shown that around 40 to 60 percent of all premature deaths occur due to lifestyle choices. So, it is the responsibility of healthcare providers to help patients make good lifestyle choices,

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manage their health conditions and reduce the chances of diseases. Insignia Health is on a mission to help patients take more active participation in their healthcare. They have introduced the following programs for NHS (National Health Service), UK. Patient Activation Measure

®

(PAM

) and Coaching for Activation

®

PAM is a 10 to 13 assessment that produces a score on a 0 to 100 scale. The score points could for example, represent a 2 percent decline in hospitalization or a 2 percent improvement in treatment adherence. A patient’s PAM score will put him/her into one of four activation levels that signify the degree of his/her self management capability.

Around 45 percent of patients with long-term conditions have lower activation - PAM levels one and two. These patients are high utilizers of the healthcare system and account for around 70 to 80 percent of the total healthcare costs. Patient activation level and PAM score enables healthcare providers to customize their support according to the ability level of a patient and thereby improve outcomes.

Coaching for Activation (CFA) is the next process, which aligns health goals and guideline behaviour for individuals with one or more of 14 conditions and diseases. CFA provides clinical as well as non-clinical health coaches with realistic objectives and action steps in whatever area they are working -- medication adherence, nutrition, physical activity, or stress management among other things.

The Challenge Involved Any solution provider has the challenge of integrating their technology with the right EHR. Once that is done the data they collect must be made interoperable with other systems around the world if the goal of healthcare coordination on a global level is to be achieved. Insignia Health has introduced a solution, SMART on FHIR that can integrate the above mentioned PAM and CFA through apps with portals, EHRs, Health Information Exchanges, and global Health IT systems. For this to work, EHR vendors must be capable of integrating their data with SMART on FHIR. Though these technologies are in their infancy, they are expected to develop at a fast pace and enable providers to provide the necessary healthcare resources to people who need them most as well as those who have less immediate need.

Professional medical transcription companies providing EHR-integrated transcription will continue assisting physicians in their day-to-day documentation tasks. Solution providers in this area work to improve physicians’ clinical workflow and their efficiency.

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