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This 5-page paper explains how medical systems manage patient data these days versus how it was done in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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ultimately help save time and money, and could mean fewer misdiagnoses. Many medical institutions, such as the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, are relying on state-of-the-art
data to help treat patients, especially burn unit patients. A recent article points out that treatment of burn victims takes longer than for other trauma patients - one to two
days for every one percent of the body burned (Blankenship, 2006). A recent study conducted at Brooke Army Medical Center did investigate information systems and the use of ketamine,
an analgesic that has been effective in the care of burn patients (Blum and Maani, 2006). In this particular study, the authors compared orders written for ketamine and dosages of
ketamine given during a one-year period, with the first six months being recorded before implementation of a computerized standard order set, and six months afterward (Blum and Maani, 2006). It
was found that, following the implementation of a computerized standard order set, there was a greater incidence of ketamine utilization - and therefore, significantly larger doses were given (Blum and
Maani, 2006). As the point of analgesic prescriptions is to try to dampen pain among burn patients (dont forget, burn patients also take longer to recover), Brooke Army Medical Center
is relying a great deal on up-to-date information systems and instantaneous information to ensure that patients can receive the best of care. The interesting thing, however, is that the idea
of using electronic data and information systems to help with everything from treatment to developing physical therapy program for burn unit patients is still a relatively new phenomenon. During the
early 1990s, Jennifer Smith wrote about a somewhat new scenario - that of Chicagos Lutheran General Health System, and its redesign of information systems. Doing so, she noted, would help
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