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Running Head: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE

Quality Improvement in Healthcare
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Question one: Everything is advancing, including diseases that healthcare providers are
striving to prevent and treat. Currently, patients suffer from complex diseases with complicated
and fatal signs and symptoms requiring quick, effective, and patient-based care while still
warranting evidence-based interventions to save lives and promote health (Singh & Sittig, 2016).
Old ways of providing healthcare cannot sufficiently achieve these. Therefore, obligating nurses,
other healthcare workers, and patients to embrace innovations and technology, positive change,
take proactive measures, and be responsible. This has seen technology becoming a vital part of
the healthcare delivery system.
Every healthcare provider sees technology as a potential tool for improving patient care
quality and safety, often the primary focus. Thus, a competent healthcare-related project must
prioritize them as well (Strudwick, et al., 2018). The proper use of the right technology for the
right purpose in healthcare increases efficiency and access to care, ensures quality, decreases
cost, and medical errors. An example is electronic health records. Nurses in different facilities or
within various departments can currently share patient health information and efficiently
communicate by exploiting the EHR. It has enabled nurses to know about their patients to
provide a more tailored, quality, and safe care. Besides, EHR promotes patient-based care and
has improved patient safety by reducing medical errors. However, when not used accordingly
and all polices are put forward adhered to maximally, the primary focus is missed. Patient health
information is left unsafe, which is vastly detrimental to patients and the healthcare system.
Therefore, a project plan must ensure strict compliance with policies governing the use of
technology and continually educate healthcare providers and patients on ensuring this.
As patients go through their medical journey, multiple healthcare providers care for them.
In retrospect, patient information was stored in papers, so a nurse or relevant authorized person

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would carry them around from one department to another (Strudwick, et al., 2018). This
increased the probability of miscommunication and mistakes. The result was possible fatal
medical errors or assumptions due to a lack of reliable patient health information. Researches
have shown how failures in communication have caused major adverse events in healthcare.
Fortunately, the discovery and adequate implementation of electronic health records save
patients and healthcare providers from these adverse events that demotivated healthcare workers,
increased length of hospitalization, and burdened patient and healthcare sectors. However, the
discovery and implementation alone cannot achieve anything. Healthcare providers must
accurately record, strictly access these records as stipulated and maintain loyalty as they handle
patient health information.
Moreover, the maximum exploitation of technology has enabled the empowerment of
patients and the public to be responsible for their health and care. The use of social media, for
instance, has allowed reaching many people with health educati...