An act protecting patients from technology related errors, not yet pass to the house or senate. In order to prevent the likelihood of medical errors, There should be an original medical record documented by a responsible physician.Then can the record be safely transcribed by a qualified medical assistant who has completed a program for medical office administration assistant , or a related program at an program accredited school.The physician must inspect the entire record before it s signed by the assistant and the physician.The number of assistants assigned to a patients chart should be one.
The last 4 offices I have worked at that implemented CPOE and Meaningful Use policies worked exactly as you explained, but there wasn't a need for a paper chart. After going paperless at each location, we found that medication-related errors dropped by at least 90%. There are lockouts in place in electronic systems as well as drug interaction protocols, that wouldn't allow for prescribing certain drugs if the patient is allergic or if it interacts with other drugs. The paper charts allowed so many errors to happen, whereas the electronic systems have safeguards in place to protect against them. A medical assistant just can't enter something into the system without approval. Every order and procedure entered into the electronic system was then sent to the physician to sign off on.
