When New Jersey residents get sick or injured, they depend on doctors, nurses and pharmacists to take care of them. But what happens when medical professionals cause more harm than good by making a medication error? Common causes of medication errors Medication errors...
Millions are misdiagnosed each year
New Jersey residents and others who are misdiagnosed by their doctors may experience a wide range of emotions such as fear or anger. A misdiagnosis can have a significant impact on a person's life, and diagnostic errors are considered a significant problem in the...
Research focuses on easier-to-use electronic health records
A major development in New Jersey hospitals and other medical facilities across the country in recent years has been the steady -- and rapid -- implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems to supplant paper records and handwritten patient notes.The...
Doctors cite too-rapid integration of electronic health records
Here is a central irony concerning the electronic health record (EHR) systems that are rapidly becoming the norm in hospitals across the country, including in New Jersey, as expressed by a pediatrician."It is actually much harder to take care of sick patients in the...
Growing pains for electronic health records’ implementation
The advent of electronic health record (EHR) systems to supplant paper records for patients in New Jersey and elsewhere across the country began in earnest several years ago with the federal government's initiative to reward hospitals upgrading their charts and...
Hospital disclosures highlight electronic records’ growing pains
The push across the medical industry in recent years that has focused upon supplanting paper records with electronic health records (EHRs), with New Jersey providers being no exception, has often been touted as revolutionary.The transformation, advocates routinely...
Computerized drug ordering systems: Effective, yet with problems
It takes a considerable amount of time for some medical studies to be fully evaluated following completion of research and material findings.Such is the case with a study on medication error published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics...
Study: “Human factor” core catalyst driving medication errors
"Studies like this give us the opportunity to find out how we are actually doing," says Asad Latif, "compared to how we think we are doing."What Latif, a doctor from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and lead author of a study that could potentially be...
Opinion on reusing medical equipment: “Clean and green” initiatives
As one doctor -- an infectious-disease specialist in New York City -- queried recently in his capacity as a media commentator on national health care, what reasonable person would ever argue over a uniform approach to injections that centrally incorporates the notion...
