commitee....

I was “invited” to this patient safety committee as committee member few days ago. Well, “patient safety” has been a very important issue for the past few years….The hospital evaluation scheme(HES) has focus on this feature since the starting of the new evaluation scheme 2 years ago.

 

Well, a boring afternoon – most of the agenda need not to be discussed by whole bunch of member… It started by 12:30 noon and by 1:50pm I slipped and went to my OPD session. It dragged on till 2:40pm I heard.

 

But I was assigned to a specific issue – the past over record. Most of the past-over were done verbally in the past. Mostly MO to MO and sometime Specialist on call to Specialist on call. But now the HES required us to show record that past-over has been done. Well, more paper work again. The nursing director has told us that one of the big hospital is doing it over the  computer. There is this section in the intranet and MO will logged on and key in those patient that need to be “really” past over. The MO and specialist on call will than logged on to the net and tabbed on it meaning that they has seen the record.

 

Well, look like we need to do something similar…I will need to discussed with my cardiologist (still back in Penang and coming back today…he another invited committee member) and implement it within few weeks…