Patient Safety is Paramount
Reduce Healthcare Errors
Enhance Quality of Life

• WHO reports that healthcare errors impact 1 in every 10 patients around the world^[1]
• Medical errors can lead to adverse healthcare events
• Handwritten reports or notes, manual order entry, non-standard abbreviations and poor legibility lead to substantial errors and injuries
• The U.S. healthcare system could save more than $81 billion annually, reduce adverse healthcare events, and improve the quality of care if health information technology is widely adopted^[2]
• Prescribing errors are the largest identified source of preventable errors in hospitals
• It is estimated that each hospitalized patient, on average, is exposed to one medication error each day^[3]
• Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) can reduce medication errors by 80% overall, and decrease harm to patients by 55%^[4]

AKOS software can help you address these areas and improve patient safety.

• Improve patient safety through digital entries in our user-friendly software
• Manage your time better, delegating repetitive tasks and redundant work to tools and technology
• Make Time for R&R (rest & relaxation)
• Enhance the Quality of Life for patients and providers
• The degree to which a person enjoys the important possibilities of his or her life defines the Quality of Life -- University of Toronto
  

References:

[1] "World Alliance for Patient Safety". Organization Web Site. World Health Organization. Retrieved 2008-09-27

[2] RAND Healthcare: Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality? Retrieved on July 8, 2006

[3] The Institute of Medicine (2006). "Preventing Medication Errors". The National Academies Press. Retrieved 2006-07-21.

[4] David W. Bates, MD, et al. (1998). "Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry and a Team Intervention on Prevention of Serious Medication Errors". JAMA 280 (15): 1311–1316. DOI:10.1001/jama.280.15.1311. PMID 9794308. Retrieved 2006-06-20.