Lack of a Comprehensive Audit Trail
A comprehensive audit trail is crucial to analyzing the efficiency of your routines and procedures, justifying a Medicare/Medicaid billing item, or defending yourself from an unjustified malpractice suit. The problem is, most hospitals don’t have one. The manual tasks associated with the processes handling multi system environments do not get documented properly.These routines force staff to enter data into multiple entry points, this in turn creates a fractioned audit trail that is as best obtuse and at worse useless. A Metabolyst Solution replaces the splintered front end audit trails with a single comprehensive audit trail that can be easily accessed. This audit trail can also be configured to include as little or as much information that is needed.
Increased Chance for Human error
Every organization has to cope with human error, but few errors have the same direct and dire potential as those committed in a Hospital. Errors can be as benign as to cause a hiccup in the schedule or can be malignant enough to warrant Litigation.Human error exists, but it can be mitigated. One of the best methods of controlling human error is by reducing non decision related human activities. This usually manifests itself as multiple data entry points per station, or multiple manual handoffs of information between departments. These action as are when the chance for error increases significantly.
Metabolyst can reduce the chances of error by automating incoming med orders, interdepartmental handoffs, automatically enforcing data checking processes, and reducing the points of entry to one. Our solutions also add a comprehensive audit trail, so you can internally evaluate your routines and improve them.Multiple Data Entry Points
When your overworked staff has to retype data into multiple points of entry, you increase the chance for error by a factor equal to the number of points of entry. While multiple points of entry are a reality for many hospitals, reducing the amount of systems you have to execute this process on is crucial for cutting risk.Our front end automation solutions can help you reduce the number of times you enter data into your systems. We can do this by either pushing the data into the critical systems, or by circumventing a paper based task and handling the process digitally. Either way, your labor is reduced and your error rate due to data entry is decreased.