On the other hand, it is critical for nurses in the 21st century to have the ability to use technology to incorporate into patient care (Barnard & Sandelowski, 2012). In order to keep up with the competitive edge, nurses have to keep up with such changes. This can be a struggle for some nurses, especially for the older generation nurses (baby boomers). Another disadvantage is troubleshooting when technology malfunction. Nurses were not trained to fix the machine when it malfunctions. This situation can be frustrated and time taken away from monitoring patient condition and care. According to the U.S food and drugs administration(FDA) report, there are several hundred thousand medical device reports of suspected device-associated deaths, serious injuries and malfunctions each year. In addition, FDA reports that the annual number of medical device recalls is nearly doubled between 2003 and 2012, from 604 recalls to 1,190 (FDA: Medical Device Reporting, 2015).
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With the rise of electronic health records (EHR) systems, it’s becoming more and more difficult for hospitals to keep patient info secure and accurate. Between clinicians accessing health records and hospital internal email messages via tablets and smartphones, and digital hackers becoming more sophisticated in their techniques to steal patient health information/record, and caused hospitals to face many cybersecurity challenges with new healthcare technology. According to center for Medicare and Medicaid service (CMS), U.S. hospitals have spent $1.6 billion each year for healthcare security system. Breaking it down by incident, hospitals have spent on average $810,000 per security breach, which occurs at nearly one in five healthcare organizations nationwide (CMS, 2016). (To sum up, even though technology has many befits, there is no doubt there come along the risk of
Next problem is the dependency on technology. It is not uncommon for a computer system to face technical errors. This …show more content…
With the rise of electronic health records (EHR) systems, it’s becoming more and more difficult for hospitals to keep patient info secure and accurate. Between clinicians accessing health records and hospital internal email messages via tablets and smartphones, and digital hackers becoming more sophisticated in their techniques to steal patient health information/record, and caused hospitals to face many cybersecurity challenges with new healthcare technology. According to center for Medicare and Medicaid service (CMS), U.S. hospitals have spent $1.6 billion each year for healthcare security system. Breaking it down by incident, hospitals have spent on average $810,000 per security breach, which occurs at nearly one in five healthcare organizations nationwide (CMS, 2016). (To sum up, even though technology has many befits, there is no doubt there come along the risk of