Engagement of doctors in training in quality improvement and patient safety

With the advancement of technology, the healthcare industry has also shown innumerable advances and engaging doctors in the improvement of patient care and patient safety has gained a lot of importance in the recent era. However, many a time it is seen that when it comes to patient safety, doctors fail to perform up to the required level. What we have mostly seen is that physicians depend on the primitive conversation with patients using pen-paper giving them the requisite instructions. However, the quality of the healthcare system needs to be improved along with the improvement of patient safety. 

Improvement of patient safety can only come up with the enhancement of efficiency and effectiveness. For this, doctors need to be more involved in redesigning the healthcare system. Many EMR software is there that gives user-centric designs to the doctors and this software, for example, iPatientCare Electronic Health Records help the doctors to come up with more innovative and reliable results and more time for quality healthcare services.

Patient safety helps in making the entire healthcare process more efficient. Apart from looking after their other work, doctors need to spend more time with their patients and by this, their most important function will get fulfilled. It's important to get the patient's needs and at the same time their expectations. The services which can bring about these two together are as follows:

• ·         Patient Safety and Engagement
• ·         Health literacy of the patients
• ·         Doctor-patient communication
• ·         System supporting patient access
• ·         Care provision

Effective communication between two doctors can also lead to the overall improvement of patient care. It becomes effective in the way where a patient is suffering from a chronic disease and had to refer to numerous doctors for diagnosis. In cases like this proper communication between the doctors can reduce the care fragmentation of a patient. To maintain effective communication different software applications can also be used.

Doctors can also focus on the use of data because data plays an important role in quality improvement and ultimately leads to the improvement of patient care. It tracks changes and also describes how the current system is working. Qualitative and quantitative data collections can be used to improve the quality of the healthcare system.

We talk about the benefits of quality improvement in healthcare and patient care.

·         Effective: Implementation of an effective system will reduce the chances of redundancy and failure and lead to better patient care.

·         Proactive: Through a proactive system lot many problems can be solved even before they occur

·         Efficient: It can be considered as one of the most important benefits. An improved process will make wasteful activities associated with ideas and supplies. Reducing wastage of supplies lead to an increase in efficiency

·      Cost-effective: Undoubtedly, quality improvement will lead to cost-efficiency. By reducing the cost associated with failures, the excess and unwanted cost can be reduced to a good extent. 

In a nutshell, it can be said that a doctor has a lot many activities to give his focus on. However, the most important of them, which is patient care needs to be done effectively for the overall goal achievement of the healthcare system.