Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 143: A Golden
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For les, Twitch and Bakunin - just read an article on a new hospital being designed for Toronto that will be fully digital. From the article:
Upon entering the hospital, the ability to easily access data and information enables users to “connect” from points such as kiosks situated throughout the hospital or on mobile devices anywhere in the building. Once in patient rooms, Integrated Bedside Terminals (IBTs) allow patients to control their environment, order restaurant-style room service, and communicate with caregivers and family members via video. Doctors and nurses use voice recognition software to complete charts verbally, and smart bed technology monitors patients’ vital signs and updates electronic medical records immediately. Lab work specimens are delivered via pneumatic tubes, with results returned to hand-held mobile devices within minutes. While all this is happening, Automated-Guided Vehicles (AGVs) deliver supplies and equipment to units and clinics, allowing caregivers to fully devote their time to patient care. “The new facility is as automated as they come,” added Jeter. “The technology reinvented workflows and makes patient care a top priority.”
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That has the potential for the biggest cluster pfukc I have ever seen. I would rather go to the morgue than take my chances where everything was automated. Not only that but they have shown that electronic systems for patient care take 3-4 times as long to document, process orders, or do anything than the good ole paper. there are a million more opportunities for error because everything is compartmentalized in the records. Update the records immediately? the dam things take so dam long to load that you could have written it by hand or checked what ever it is off and seen 3 more patients than if you need to get the EMR to take in the info 'immediately'.