Medical Safety & Global Health
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Role of Health and Development in Medical Safety Services

Gary Elem^{* *}Correspondence: Gary Elem, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, Email:

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Health can be promoted by encouraging healthful activities, such as regular physical exercise and adequate sleep, and by reducing or avoiding unhealthful activities or situations, such as smoking or excessive stress. Some factors that affect health are caused by individual decisions, like whether to engage in a high-risk habit, while others are caused by structural factors, such how society is structured and how easy or difficult it is for individuals to get essential healthcare services.

Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)

The most often identified source of avoidable errors in hospitals is incorrect prescribing (IOM). According to the IOM, each hospitalized patient experiences one medication error on average every day. Although medication errors can be reduced by 80% overall with computerized provider order entry, which was formerly known as computerized physician order entry, it is more important to note that patient harm can be reduced by 55%. According to Leapfrog in 2004 survey, 16% of US clinics, hospitals, and medical practices plan to use CPOE within the next two years.

Complete safety medication system

25% of drug errors might be avoided with the use of a standardized bar code system for drug distribution. Due to worries about interoperability and compliance with upcoming national standards, doctors and hospitals in the United States have been slow to adopt competing medication delivery systems (barcoding and electronic prescribing) even though there is ample evidence to show that they reduce medication errors. Such worries are serious since several US states' laws conflict with Medicare Part D guidelines for electronic prescribing.

Specific patient safety software

A standardized, modular technological platform that enables a hospital, clinic, or health system to record its incidents such as falls, medication errors, pressure ulcers, near-misses, etc. is called an incident management system. These systems may be customized to fit particular workflows, and the analytics behind them enables reporting and dashboards to help users learn from mistakes (and right). Datix, RL Solutions, Verge, Midas, and Quantros are a few of the vendors.

Technological latrogenesis

Errors caused by technology are considerable and becoming more noticeable in healthcare delivery systems. Healthcare and IT professionals are now seriously concerned about these peculiar and potentially serious issues related to the implementation of HIT. Therefore, this new class of unfavourable occurrences that emerges as a result of technology innovation causing system and microsystem disturbances is referred to as technological iatrogenesis. Because healthcare systems are adaptable and complicated, numerous networks and links operate at once to create certain results. Unfamiliar and novel process faults frequently occur when these systems are subjected to the additional strains brought on by the spread of new technology. If not recognized, over time these new errors can collectively lead to catastrophic system failures. The term "eiatrogenesis” can be used to describe the local error manifestation. The sources for these errors include:

Inexperienced prescribers and employees may give patients a false sense of security that mistakes are prevented when technology proposes a course of action. Unusual medicine regimens for old or underweight people can be overridden by shortcut or default choices, leading to toxic doses. Eighty-four percent of the more than 500 healthcare facilities taking part in a surveillance system run by the United States Pharmacopoeia identified CPOE and automated drug dispensing as a cause of error. Solutions include ongoing design adjustments to accommodate special medical settings, monitoring manual system overrides, and training (and retraining) all users.