Solution
Parul answered on
Nov 23 2021
Introduction
With growing rate of diseases and pandemic coming in forefront, there is a lot of demand for seamless medical services and care. Coupled this with massive increase of population requires tremendous efforts from healthcare professional to deliver a consistent experience as well as offer overall wellness package to the people. However, it is a sad plight that, today there are lot of problems being reported from medical healthcare industry. For instance, giving the wrong test results or misplacing the details of patient, prescribing different medicine to what is been recommended. These e
ors are because of excessive of manual intervention and involvement of the written details which may not be legible to all the stakeholders. As per the recent survey, top 2 reasons for job dissatisfaction by physician revolved around being less productive
· 85% of physician feel their time is spent on documentation
· 66% of physician feel they were not able to see more patients
· 49.1% of physician felt miss-alignment of their workflows
These can create scope of lot of e
ors and concerns which may lead to poor consumer experience. These manual interventions are actually distracting the healthcare workers and take professionals away from direct patient care, like patient connect, interactions, and monitoring of data records. This can only take place if bar code is leveraged in the medication as well as healthcare scenario. Unless bar code technology isn’t leveraged then present issues can also shape into various others vulnerabilities that could lead to violations of privacy and security policies.
· Fragmented Care and Communication Channels
· Working in multiple unstructured data silos
· Employees occupied with routine and repetitive task
· Limited communication amongst different stakeholders
· Outdated Communication Technology
Annotated Bibliography
Holden, R. J., Rivera-Rodriguez, A. J., Faye, H., Scanlon, M. C., & Karsh, B. T. (2019). Automation and adaptation: nurses’ problem-solving behaviour following the implementation of bar-coded medication administration technology. Cognition, Technology & Work, 15(3), 283-296.
In this article, the research explains that in the most recent years, the medical and health industry throughout the world has witnessed many issues that have raised numerous problems for patients. A barcode is a sequence of number that can be used to scan the code. Barcodes have been always utilised in retail industry for many years for its effectiveness and efficiencies to monitor the inventory of product. In the healthcare sector, the bar codes can be leveraged for tracking medications and to prevent medical issues and e
or thereby enhancing the safety of patients. There are numerous advantages of using the bar codes that improve the access for the patients as well as security in any medical procedure. In a healthcare setting, when nurses scan the barcode, they know for the fact what...