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VisualMED Clinical Solutions
Corporation
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One of the greatest challenges that will
face health care providers over the next 10 years will be to improve
patient safety in hospitals by the elimination of medical error.
In North America
it is estimated that as many as 10% of patients admitted to hospital are
subject to some form of medical error. Preventable medical errors are
estimated to cause up to 100,000 deaths annually, with another 250,000
suffering some form of permanent injury. A significant number of these
errors are medication errors, resulting in adverse drug events (ADEs), or
are associated with other inadequate hospital procedures.
To combat this problem, a new generation
of computer software has been developed, providing facilities for
electronic prescribing, computer physician order entry (CPOE) and clinical
decision support. Studies in live North American hospital environments
indicate that the application of CPOE technology can reduce these types of
errors by more than 50% - and, in some cases, by up to 86%.
As health care costs rise faster than
can be sustained by regional and national governments, Health Departments
and Ministries are recognizing that the long term solution will need to be
based on better health care information management, management that can
best be addressed by the implementation of state-of-the-art integrative
solutions such as those marketed by VisualMED Clinical Solutions
Corporation.
An emerging trend is developing in the
government sector, with legislatures in France, Australia, Canada and
several of the the United States developing consensus and legislation
pushing forward an agenda that sees the rationalization of healthcare
practice. This rationalization is accomplished by making available to
clinicians information stored in heretofore disparate non-communicating
information systems, while integrating the documentation of care into a
uniform electronic medical record easily accessed by caregivers both
locally and regionally. The products marketed by VisualMED Clinical
Solutions are the solution.
VisualMED Clinical Solutions
Corporation was established in 2004 with the sole
purpose of marketing state-of-the-art Clinical Information Systems (CIS) to
healthcare institutions, based on a robust core CPOE engine conceived by
clinicians, integrated within a comprehensive patient electronic medical
record.
This site
provides additional information on the problem of medical error, the use of
CPOE technologies to reduce error, VisualMED Clinical Solutions Corp, and
the VisualMED family of healthcare solutions.
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