Health care has become to depend on information technology (IT) to deliver, monitor, and communicate health care delivery. Discuss the role IT has on the measuring and improving the quality of care being delivered. How will the electronic medical record (EMR)/electronic health record (EHR) help or hinder the delivery of health care?
Hospitals and other healthcare settings will often implement Transmission-Based Precautions
Hospitals and other healthcare settings will often implement Transmission-Based Precautions to prevent or help reduce the spread of infections to healthcare workers, as well other patients in their care. These Transmission-Based Precautions are designed to supplement standard precautions in patients/residents with documented or suspected infection/colonization of highly transmissible or epidemiologically important