Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say

Re:Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, ... by petra on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:50PM (#11632603)

>> but I think the lack of anything like 100% uptake is due to the lack of appropriate technology to easily create, maintain and utilise checklistbundles.

How would such technology in ideal form would be like ? and how do current practical implementations look like ?

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Re:Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, ... by noir_lord on Thursday May 05, 2016 @09:33AM (#11635903)

The ideal would be an on-screen overlay (HUD, MS Hololens) which has voice control, "Insert IV, checklist", it pops up, "Completed: Swab", "Completed: Step2".

Have the system then sync that to a central system so you have a real time status of every procedure/drug/intervention administered to a patient, voice control means no issues with hand contamination, paperwork to carry around (and forget) etc.

I think we'll probably get to that at some point especially if sub-vocal voice recognition catches on.

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