New Wireless Technologies Reduce Medical Errors

Questions and Answers:

1. How should hospital staff and IT staff work together to ensure the success of safety-critical wireless systems designed to reduce medical error?

Answer: Hospital and Technologies or IT staffs should be alert to lesson medical errors, they should work together to prevent negligence. In addition, this Wireless technologies is not trustworthy for it has potential harmful effects of instituting this system.

2. Wireless systems can record who administered the medicine, the dosage administered, the time of day, and other details. In such clear accountability good or bad for the health in industry? Do you think nurses or other healthcare practitioners may be hesitant to use the systems because of potential legal consequences?

Answer: In this case, it is good for health industry because it records the details mostly important doings of doctors and nurses. However, some nurses and healthcare practitioners would hesitate to use this system for it could affect their work and responsibilities they could use this system for easy work.

3. Can you identify additional safety measures that should be built into these wireless systems?

Answer: For more safety measure in this wireless system, the staff of the hospital must use the system carefully. They should have IT professionals to guide the staffs and organized the system well, there should be Technicians in there everyday work to prevent errors in medicating patients. And there must be a double checking of a system if it still works very well.