How can technology help Nurses/physicians

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I wanted to get everybody's opinion... I know a lot of problems in health care has been already solved with technology and innovation is still continuing. .. You think what are the problems that physicians/Nurses are still experiencing on day to day basis that can be solved by technology(software or hardware/gadget or both) ?

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Are you just casually wondering about this? Any thoughts of your own?

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I am just wondering. Want to see collectively what can we come up with..Sometimes we have problems that we are not aware of..:)

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

You have posted an extremely broad, unanswerable question.

Care to define "problems" that nurses & doctors are experiencing that can be solved by technology?

Otherwise, most of us have no idea what you're asking.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Actually, it sounds like homework.

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Specializes in Emergency.

Op, you go first. Frame a problem & solution. Then we'll chime in.

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Ok i will go first. I wish they built self check in kiosks at our office. With new chip debit card registration process takes 3 mins more because payments are not connected to Epic database anymore like in our old system. So setting up kiosk or handling patients ipad for self check in would cut down the line.

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I wanted to get everybody's opinion... I know a lot of problems in health care has been already solved with technology and innovation is still continuing. .. You think what are the problems that physicians/Nurses are still experiencing on day to day basis that can be solved by technology(software or hardware/gadget or both) ?

They definitely need to invent the clinician CADD caffeine pump with bolus function to give up to 4 or so caffeine shots ....

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical/Float Pool/Stepdown.

I would have to honestly say that technology has to actually WORK more so than not...sometimes I feel like I majored in IT instead! :cautious:

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Specializes in Float Pool - A Little Bit of Everything.

The other day it took me 1 hour after report to get a COW to work. I went through 3 and every time I thought it was working something would go wrong. I was restarting and setting up a new COW every 20 minutes. I wanted to throw that thing through the window. Like a poster said above, having technology that works is always nice. Some parts of our job and so technology involved that we can't do our job if it isn't working. It can be a huge waste of time!

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Specializes in LTC, Rehab.

I'm an ex-IT guy who's been a RN for a few years. As some others are saying, technology has to WORK if it's going to help us. Just for one stupid example: in our system (which is probably purchased software, not written by the corp. I work for), if you start a 'change of condition' on a resident, every shift for the next 8(?) shifts is supposed to enter a follow-up. Well, at the top of each follow-up you have to enter the original date of the change of condition. Hunh? It should be FILLED IN ALREADY. I should maybe be a nursing informatics person...

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.
Ok i will go first. I wish they built self check in kiosks at our office. With new chip debit card registration process takes 3 mins more because payments are not connected to Epic database anymore like in our old system. So setting up kiosk or handling patients ipad for self check in would cut down the line.

The retail clinics at Target do have iPads for check in. However check-ins are not part of the nurse's or provider's roles, so not sure how that is a "problems that physicians/Nurses are still experiencing on day to day basis that can be solved by technology"

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