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Evolution Of Medication Administration Workflow In Implementing Electronic Health Record System, Yuan-Han Huang
Evolution Of Medication Administration Workflow In Implementing Electronic Health Record System, Yuan-Han Huang
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This study focused on the clinical workflow evolutions when implementing the health information technology (HIT). The study especially emphasized on administrating medication when the electronic health record (EHR) systems were adopted at rural healthcare facilities. Mixed-mode research methods, such as survey, observation, and focus group, were used to investigate insightful interventions to compensate potential errors during the medication administration process. Research data were collected from three South Carolina small-scale rural hospitals over several clinical departments.
The major purposes of this study were two folds: (1) to assess medical staff's computer competency for the new IT system, and (2) to investigate …