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The evolution of modern technology being used in healthcare has been most fascinating to see over the years. Witnessing this evolution of moving patient charts and paper records into an electronic system has been educational over the course of my 7 years experience in the clinical laboratory. The use of data storage, document control software, implementation of EMRs and physician use of electronics to aid them when diagnosing patients, has certainly been effective in quality and safety in patient care. At my first job in a clinical setting, I was a part of a task of going from a paper system to a paperless system. Back in 2007, the need to flip through bulky patient charts and deciphering scribbled hand writing from various people would be a thing of the past for CSL Plasma’s Wichita, KS center. The implementation of ePROGESA was a nationwide, multimillion dollar project that promised to save money and time whilst improving patient care. “ePROGESA is a modular, stand-alone blood bank transfusion service software application that is specially designed to meet the needs of collecting blood, plasma, platelets, cord blood and/or transfusion services organizations to aid/assist qualified and trained personnel to support the major operations within their facilities” ("eprogesa 501(k) summary," ). ePROGESA included modules to enable users to manage the following capacities, but not limited to: donation collection management, donor management, laboratory testing, inventory management, quality control management, consumable management, equipment management, sample storage, deferrals management, standard operating procedure management, report management, and billing. I was very impressed after my personal experience with this system. The use of this technology didn’t necessarily save time, but it certainly was impressive with the traceability it provided and improved patient safety by alerting the care giver of any
The evolution of modern technology being used in healthcare has been most fascinating to see over the years. Witnessing this evolution of moving patient charts and paper records into an electronic system has been educational over the course of my 7 years experience in the clinical laboratory. The use of data storage, document control software, implementation of EMRs and physician use of electronics to aid them when diagnosing patients, has certainly been effective in quality and safety in patient care. At my first job in a clinical setting, I was a part of a task of going from a paper system to a paperless system. Back in 2007, the need to flip through bulky patient charts and deciphering scribbled hand writing from various people would be a thing of the past for CSL Plasma’s Wichita, KS center. The implementation of ePROGESA was a nationwide, multimillion dollar project that promised to save money and time whilst improving patient care. “ePROGESA is a modular, stand-alone blood bank transfusion service software application that is specially designed to meet the needs of collecting blood, plasma, platelets, cord blood and/or transfusion services organizations to aid/assist qualified and trained personnel to support the major operations within their facilities” ("eprogesa 501(k) summary," ). ePROGESA included modules to enable users to manage the following capacities, but not limited to: donation collection management, donor management, laboratory testing, inventory management, quality control management, consumable management, equipment management, sample storage, deferrals management, standard operating procedure management, report management, and billing. I was very impressed after my personal experience with this system. The use of this technology didn’t necessarily save time, but it certainly was impressive with the traceability it provided and improved patient safety by alerting the care giver of any
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