Learning Portfolio

Electronic Health Records (Week 7)

Patient Access

Online Lab Services

Adverse Events

Documentation and Changing Information

Bias towards delivery technology and electronic health records

Consistency among all healthcare bodies, underlying language

Availability of all medical records

History of substance abuse

Past scans

Fall risk

Allergies

Informatics and Social Justice (Week 11)

Health Information Technology & Social Justice

Information Poverty/Digital Divide

Social Justice in Health Policy

Electronic Health Records (Week 8)

Human-Technology Relationships
(4 rules for the reinvention of healthcare)

Canada's health care system is under heavy strain; there is too little money and too few resources and workers to meet the demands of the Canadian population. The current system is not sustainable, changes need to be made.
An approach that can be taken to make the healthcare system more effective is by changing current technical tools (such as EHRs) to address the social nature of human beings. EHRs need to be designed to complement the way humans and technology interact with each other, and address the changes in both technology as well as clinical roles and processes.
(Coiera, E. (2004). Four rules for the reinvention of health care. BMJ, 328(7449), 1197–9.
doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7449.1197)

Technology in Clinical Settings
(Have Electronic Health Records Improved the Quality of Patient Care?)

Pros

Saves money

improved data retrieval

Efficiency and accuracy in documentation

Cons

Client feels disconnected from care, interferes with nurse-client relationship

Time Consuming

Leads to stigmatization/ bias

Issues with universality

Difficult for nurses that are not tech-savvy