A typical day on the ward
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A typical day on the ward
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#2"Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links." [1]
@jeeshan, I'm assuming you're the author. Why have these practices (archaic maintenance of lists) been maintained?
[1] - HN Guidelines -https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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#3Hospitals already put a bracelet on every in-patient, right? What if you had an RFID chip in the bracelets and scanned at entrances/exits to the ward, to keep track of where the patients are and have been?
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#4"Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links." [1] @jeeshan, I'm assuming you're the author. Why have these practices (archaic maintenance of lists) been maintained? [1] - HN Guidelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good and (complex) question. Essentially, the person deciding or purchasing technology in a hospital (an IT administrator) is not the person seeing patients (the doctor). They often work in completely different buildings and no have overlapping experience.
My bad incorrectly submitting.
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#5When I first shadowed on a post-op floor in Detroit, I was shocked to see how much information nurses had to copy by hand during a shift change. Even new medicine orders and drug administration schedules were being penciled into the margins of already-crammed pages.
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#6What's the easiest way to learn about and work towards changing/improving these places as an individual?
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#7After a 12-hour stay in the ICU a couple of years ago, this doesn't surprise me in the least. I was given a different patient's discharge papers by mistake, and when I got all the records of stay for reference afterwards some of the clinician's reports were utterly illegible. I guess this is why I ended up answering the same medical background questions over and over again during the night.
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This looks like a great tool How are you going to deal with the inevitable hurdles of HIPPA compliance? (HIPPA = patient privacy laws in the US, for people who don't know).
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#8When I first shadowed on a post-op floor in Detroit, I was shocked to see how much information nurses had to copy by hand during a shift change. Even new medicine orders and drug administration schedules were being penciled into the margins of already-crammed pages.
In a lot of ways, nurses have it even worse. They're constantly on the front lines they lose so much time in having to rewrite the same information over and over again.
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#9What's the easiest way to learn about and work towards changing/improving these places as an individual?
The most difficult part is selling to a hospital. So if you can crack that half of the problem the technology is the easy part.
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