Question

Describe two (2) ways in which healthcare informatics can improve patient safety.

Answer 1

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HEALTH CARE INFORMATICS ----- It is the combination of information technology, management , practices, and to provide service facilities to improve the health of population.

Benefits of healthcare informatics to improve patient safety-------

1. It improves the efficiency of clinical practices, like patient record, data collection, schedule the recall of patients so that proper healthcare of patients is taken into consideration.

2. It enhance the diagnostic interpretation and asses the proper laboratory result.

3. It reduces the medical errors like , prescription error, adverse effect of drugs, etc and increase the accuracy.

4. It decrease the travel time and money of patient.

5. Home care facilities also become possible by health informatics.

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