Medicine is one aspect of our world today that we heavily rely on no matter what part of the world we reside in. When it comes down to medicine we use it for multiple reasons whether we simply have the cold, or a more serious health problem. However, in order to get medication, and the proper treatment we rely not only on health professionals and their expertise, as well as experience, but also health care systems, and providers. However, can we truly rest assure that the systems and programs that they are using today are actually doing the necessary, and correct job?
Technology: Helping, or Hurting?
Technology is a part of our world that is forever expanding and changing. Within the medical field, technology has greatly shaped and molded treatments and medications that not only heal patients, but also ultimately save their lives. However, these forms of technology cannot properly be used if patients are not actually having their information properly filed with accurate information. Many hospitals, and health care facilities today have turned to using electronic filing systems versus past forms of filing, which required an actual file full of paper work that had to be copied, and lugged around all over a hospital from one department to the next.
What You Can Expect
While the new filing system is helping make patient file and records more readily available not only in one hospital, but any health care facility they are seeking treatment the system itself is also causing problems. Recently, many cases have begun to come to light that show when using this form of filing that patients records can actually have information not accurate with not only their health and condition, but also the amount of medication they should receive. How is this actually occurring though? When it comes down to errors within an electronic system one can either assume, as well as see, that they are either deriving from an individual either inputting in false information, or malfunctions and glitches within filing programs.
Recently, research and statistics were released by the government that stated that this year alone 60,000 medical errors were expected to occur due to issues with medical electronic filing systems, which was also expected to increase.
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