{"id":812,"date":"2017-05-24T02:51:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T02:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sigmify\/resources\/?p=812"},"modified":"2022-01-13T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T09:25:17","slug":"healthcare-team-collaboration-quality-and-safety-of-patient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/healthcare-team-collaboration-quality-and-safety-of-patient-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Team Collaboration – Quality and Safety of Patient Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Healthcare \u00a0Team Collaboration<\/span><\/h1>\n

Teamwork and inter-personal collaboration are necessary for patient care in a decentralized health system with many levels of health workers. Health care is an integrative profession. \u00a0Doctors, nurses, technicians and other professionals from different specialties work together to communicate and share information. These multidisciplinary teams try to get the following<\/p>\n

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Health care team collaboration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A comprehensive understanding of the patient\u2019s situation by asking more questions.<\/p>\n

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  • Make an initial assessment of the patient.<\/li>\n
  • Come up with a care plan after discussing with team members who possess different specialized knowledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    This type of teamwork and\u00a0collaboration help \u00a0improve patient care<\/strong><\/em><\/span>,\u00a0safety<\/span> <\/strong><\/em>and patient plans for care and discharge.<\/p>\n

    Health care systems involve numerous interfaces and patient handoffs between multiple health care practitioners. Even during the course of a short interaction, a patient may interact with ten different hospital employees ranging from physicians, nurses, technicians, administrators, etc.<\/p>\n

    How will a Collaboration Platform help?<\/span><\/h1>\n

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    Securely transfer<\/span> <\/strong><\/em>\u00a0critical patient information between \u00a0various parties and applications involved in patient care.<\/p>\n

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    • Improve patient\u00a0safety<\/strong><\/em><\/span> and outcomes , by providing a platform for \u00a0health care professionals to work as a team and communicate effectively.<\/li>\n
    • Ensure all critical information is available <\/span>at each touch point, reducing inaccurate diagnosis and treatment.<\/span><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Care team members\u2019 assessments, judgements and actions are based on the information available and any gaps can have permanent or fatal consequences for patients.<\/li>\n
    • Reduce the \u00a0number of medical errors<\/span><\/strong><\/em> , which in turn increases patient\u00a0safety.<\/li>\n
    • Improvements in decision making<\/span><\/strong><\/em>, as collaboration between physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals allow team members to become more aware of each other\u2019s strengths, knowledge and skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      The team approach ensures one person alone is not responsible for the patient\u2019s health and an entire team comes together to coordinate a patient\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n

      Collaborative care in the health care profession is integral to achieving optimal patient health. By increasing communication and partnership across disciplines, we get \u00a0better patient care and\u00a0safety.<\/p>\n

      A collaboration platform is a great medium that helps in integrating \u00a0scattered teams and diverse applications. It plays an important role in solving \u00a0communication problems and loss of critical information relating to patient health .<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      \t\t\t\tCollaborative care in the health care profession is integral to achieving optimal patient health. By increasing communication and partnership across disciplines, we get better patient care and safety\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"footer-one","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"off","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6107,"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/6107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}