Around one in 20 patients is exposed to preventable harm in medical care, according to a report titled, ‘Prevalence, severity, and nature of preventable patient harm across medical care settings: systematic review and meta-analysis’, while 12 per cent of preventable patient harm is either severe or leads to death. The same review found that 25 per cent of preventable harm in medical care was related to medication. Beyond the human cost of healthcare medication errors, the World Health Organisation estimates the global cost to be US$42 billion annually.
To help improve patient outcomes, reduce preventable errors, strengthen decision support and provide stronger healthcare protocols, hospitals will need to continue leveraging technology. Ninety-five per cent of IT decision-makers surveyed in the Zebra Global Healthcare Vision Study said they expect to increase spending in healthcare IT and clinical mobility, with eight out of 10 emphasising improvements gained in reducing preventable medical errors.
More than half of the respondents in the study agreed that technology could help improve medication tracking, patient throughput and nursing workflows. Additionally, eight in 10 said that patient care would also improve if nurses, clinicians and non-clinical workers had collaboration tools and healthcare applications.
根據一份題為“整個醫療環境中可預防患者傷害的發生率、嚴重程度和性質：系統回顧和薈萃分析”的報告，大約每 20 名患者中就有一人在醫療護理中遭受可預防傷害，而 12% 的可預防傷害患者受到嚴重傷害或導致死亡。同一項審查發現，醫療保健中 25% 的可預防傷害與藥物治療有關。除了醫療保健用藥錯誤造成的人力成本外，世界衛生組織估計全球每年的成本為 420 億美元。
為了幫助改善患者的治療效果、減少可預防的錯誤、加強決策支持並提供更強大的醫療保健協議，醫院將需要繼續利用技術。在 Zebra全球醫療保健願景研究中接受調查的 IT 決策者中有 95%表示他們希望增加醫療保健 IT 和臨床移動性方面的支出，十分之八的人強調在減少可預防的醫療錯誤方面取得的進步。
該研究中超過一半的受訪者同意技術可以幫助改善藥物追踪、患者吞吐量和護理工作流程。此外，十分之八的人表示，如果護士、臨床醫生和非臨床工作者擁有協作工具和醫療保健應用程序，患者護理也會得到改善。
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