Visiting the annual conference and exhibition some reflections pop up.
• Clinical decision support
• Healthcare processes
• Workflow
• Unnecessary errors/mistakes in healthcare
• Patient Health Record
In World of HealthCare Congress – 2005 in Les Fontaines, Paris, Per Båtelson CEO Capio Group Sweden, talked said that “Doctors should be like pilots, not artists” in the context of decreasing errors/mistakes in healthcare.
We have heard about horrible errors/mistakes in healthcare at WHCC and HIMSS every year thereafter. This year at HIMSS we heard Dennis Quaid, CEO Quaid Foundation, talking about his, and his family’s, experiences in healthcare.
The work, delivered and ongoing, on clinical pathways, process models, workflow and clinical decision support clearly points out the need and stresses the fact that the number of unnecessary errors/mistakes must decrease.
As a complement to this the Patient Health Record likes HealthVault, Revolution Health, Google Health etc. engage people to be active in the process and able to follow the activities made by the Caregivers. Compare to the banking industry and the evolution of the internet bank.
When will we see the curve of unnecessary errors/mistakes in healthcare subside?