Sara, another concern with standardization and the loss of autonomy is that physicians may start to depend on the technology and lose their clinical knowledge and skills. When an abnormal case is presented that doesn’t fit these standards, physicians may not be able to adequately assess and treat the patient. Additionally, organizations may become so standardized that they restrict the autonomy of clinicians so that they are not able to try new procedures or treatments in order to refine or develop new best practices.
Menachemi and Collum (2011) also bring up the concern of what physicians will do in the event of a downtime when the computer system is not available and individuals have become so reliant on following the standard protocol in
Menachemi and Collum (2011) also bring up the concern of what physicians will do in the event of a downtime when the computer system is not available and individuals have become so reliant on following the standard protocol in