Paper-free at the Point of Care

"Providers are being invited to complete a Digital Maturity Self-assessment in order to establish the baseline position regarding the effective use of information, technology and systems by health and care professionals at the point-of-care." 

Paper-free at the Point of Care: Completing the Digital Maturity Self-assessment (Five Year Forward View)
NHS National Information Board
November 2015

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Patient handover in orthopaedics, improving safety using Information Technology

"Following the merger of two orthopaedic departments into a single service in a new hospital, it was felt that a number of safety issues within the handover process needed to be addressed. This quality improvement project addressed these issues through the creation and implementation of a new patient database which spanned the department, allowing trouble free, safe, and comprehensive handover."

Patient handover in orthopaedics, improving safety using Information Technology
T Pearkes
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u207329.w2939

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Securing excellence in GP IT services

"This document sets out the operating arrangements for the delivery of GP IT services across England. It outlines clear accountability, responsibility and financing support for general practice in England to receive high quality IT support services."

Securing excellence in GP IT services: operating model, 2nd edition (2014-16)
NHS England
April 2014

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Features of effective medical knowledge resources to support point of care learning

"We identified nine features that influence users' selection of knowledge resources, namely efficiency (with sub-features of comprehensiveness, searchability, and brevity), integration with clinical workflow, credibility, user familiarity, capacity to identify a human expert, reflection of local care processes, optimization for the clinical question (e.g., diagnosis, treatment options, drug side effect), currency, and ability to support patient education."

Features of effective medical knowledge resources to support point of care learning: a focus group study
DA Cook, KJ Sorensen, W Hersh, RA Berger, JM Wilkinson
PLOS One, 25th November 2013

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Computer technology may reduce medication errors

"Current policies to increase CPOE adoption and use will likely prevent millions of additional medication errors each year."

Reduction in medication errors in hospitals due to adoption of computerized provider order entry systems
DC Radley, MR Wasserman, LEW Olsho, SJ Shoemaker, MD Spranca, B Bradshaw
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2013, online first

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International profiles of health care systems, 2012

"Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization, quality of care, health disparities, efficiency and integration, care coordination, use of health information technology, use of evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations."

International profiles of health care systems: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States
The Commonwealth Fund
November 2012

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Health IT and patient safety

"Health IT is playing an ever-larger role in the care of patients, and some components of health IT have significantly improved the quality of health care and reduced medical errors."

Health IT and patient safety: building safer systems for better care
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
National Academies Press
February 2012

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