Wall Of Silence Journal Analysis

Wall of Silence Journal Two One can assume that the goal of most healthcare organizations is to improve patient outcome; but, how does one know that they are getting the best care. Thanks to the advances of technology, patients have immediate access to hospital ratings through their consumer report. The hospital consumer report addresses problem area such as: patient outcomes, hospital safety scores, adverse events in surgical patients, patient experiences and hospital practices (Consumer Reports, 2017). Technology has advanced as far as providing information on individual physicians to meet public demand about their health care provider. Each state provides information about physicians’ license to practice in that state. Information such as educational background, criminal convictions and disciplinary actions taken by hospitals. In addition, many medical boards release monthly press about disciplinary actions taken against named physicians, which is also recorded by the National Practitioner Data Bank (Gibson & Singh, 2003).
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Currently, hospitals have bed alarms to prevent falls and scanning system to avoid medication errors. Although technology enhances safe care, the overuse of technology has the potential to impair critical thinking skills or replace human expertise. When reflecting on the necessity of all nurses to use informatics in the field, patient safety and technology-induced-error comes to mind. Technology-induce-error can cause health care providers to make errors due to poor programming, requirements gathering, design and software testing at the point of care (Borychi, Cummings, Kushniruk & Saranto, 2017). Technology is the stepping stone for safe quality care in the future. In the next ten years technology will continue to grow from the educational system and into the