Health? news. A job for northerner maybe.

[ypauly]

16000 lives could be saved with better IT. We spent Billions and Billions for them to say this. 😡

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15340102



I bet our very own Northerner could have had a decent system up and running for a fraction of the cost.

 

[cherrypie]

I cannot believe this part of the report,

"It has become, over the decades, culturally acceptable for drugs not to be given to patients".

So we need expensive IT systems to remind nurses to give drugs????

 

[ypauly]

I cannot believe this part of the report,

"It has become, over the decades, culturally acceptable for drugs not to be given to patients".

So we need expensive IT systems to remind nurses to give drugs????

Yes it would seem what they are actually saying is medicine saves lives, but then they are not going to win any awards for that nugget on knowledge are they.

 

[Vicsetter]

They have a system that tells nurses to give patients their drugs - it's called a patient.
I thought most hospitals had a drugs round where you got your drugs along with everyone else according to your chart. This is just someone pushing an expensive IT program they have thought up.