Health Care Safety In Canada

Canada Healthcare Safety The Canadian healthcare system is currently undergoing a major transformation on patient safety mirroring similar top healthcare systems across the world. Increased awareness regarding the importance of patient safety issues has led to the creation of theoretical conceptualizations, frameworks, and studies that apply safety experiences from high-reliability businesses to medical settings. Canadians have universal access to publicly funded health care services, including primarily physician and hospital services. However, Canadians also experience longer waits periods due to high demands for services but not enough staff or adequate facilities to go around for everyone. This situation place a strain on patients waiting on either lifesaving or improving procedures but because of the lack of availability, medication, or unavailable rooms at hospital. The results, is the creation of over watch entities such as the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) whom main responsibility is to study, report and recommend solutions to the Canadian government the current status of the healthcare system as a hole. The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) was established in 2003. Its broad overall mandate is to ensure the safety

EHRs play a major role in patient’s safety since it can prevent double outpatient electronic prescribing, can track down in-patient computerized physician order entry and can have patients having their essential health data accessible to their different providers. The EHR is considered one of the main products in the integration of various tools such as decision-support systems, digital imagery that can be observed by authorized physicians while working with patients and other staff via telemedicine which would enable a safer and more efficient healthcare system in Canada (Gagnon et al.,