Effect of Knowledge Management Based Error Mitigation Techniques in Medical and Diagnostic Applications

Abstract

Today, quality of human life rests greatly on correct diagnostics and medication. Medical errors are both costly and harmful. Medication accounts for the largest percentage of medical errors but several types of information technology have the potential to reduce the frequency of medication errors. This paper demonstrates how we can benefit from knowledge management technologies to improve patient safety and reduce medication errors. In principle, it focuses on Electronic Medical Record (EMR) as the first step toward decreasing medication errors, Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) and Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE) as a knowledge retrieval and error detection technology. The paper proposes a model that applies the three technologies (EMR, CDSS and CPOE) simultaneously to give good results in the reduction of medication errors.Keywords-knowledge management; medication errors; electronic medical record (EMR); clinical decision support system (CDSS); computerised physician order entry (CPOE)

Acceptance of clinical decision support systems in Saudi healthcare organisations

“…One of the important sub-themes in terms of the performance expectancy factor, which contributed greatly to GPs’ acceptance of the CDSS, was their perceptions of its role in avoiding or reducing medical errors. According to Aldekhail (2014), CDSS prevents many medical errors and thus contributes to providing better health care services for patients; as SB42 said, “CDSS help to reduce medical errors. For example, when it provides me with a warning that the patient has allergies or gives advice about that in order to draw it to the attention of the physician”.…”

Extending Health Information System Evaluation with an Importance‐Performance Map Analysis

“…Tacit knowledge is gathered through professional practices and experiences of medical practitioners while explicit knowledge is generally embedded and presented into the forms of electronic health records (EHRs), electronic medical records (EMRs), clinicians' workflows, clinical guidelines, and protocols [42,43]. HIS also integrates clinical decision support system (CDSS) and computerized provider order entry (CPOE) as the knowledge tools to hold medical knowledge [39,[42][43][44]. It should be noted that the wide adoption of HIS worldwide is not only due to EHRs but also its integration with CDSS and CPOE to raise higher quality of patient care [45].…”