Posted: February 26th, 2023

Discussion

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Discussion

Purpose:

Define the process of medication administration and how the EHR can increase safety during those processes

Task: Read the following article 

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2019/04/poor-usability-of-electronic-health-records-can-lead-to-drug-errors-jeopardizing-pediatric-patients

Choose one of the cases of patient medication safety and propose two ways the electronic health record can be set up to prevent these from reoccurring.

Criteria for Success:
 5 points possible

· 2.5 points for each of the two ways that you discuss that the EHR could have been set up to prevent the medication error from your chosen case from occurring

· Elaborate on how the setup in the EHR would have prevented the error from occurring