There is an air-raid practice alert in progress.
This week, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which regulates audit firms in the United States, issued an "audit practice alert" that made clear it was concerned that American auditors were now — like Japanese auditors in the past — too willing to believe whatever management said.
It consisted of five text boxes, one for each intervention "tool" (best practice alert in the EHR, outreach roster, etc).
The inclusion of an electronic best practice alert about influenza vaccination in each patient's electronic medical record in an antenatal clinic in Wisconsin saw vaccination coverage improve from 42%to61%1% and provider recommendation rates improve from 49 to 89% [ 48].
In our own medical center, we have now instituted a "Best Practice Alert" in our electronic medical record that alerts the physician when a HBsAg test is ordered within 14 days of a HBV vaccine order and advises delaying HBsAg testing until at least 15 days after vaccination.
All providers use an advanced electronic health record (EHR) that incorporates best-practice alerts and decision aids into clinical care and is inclusive of all patient data from clinic, hospital, and emergency department encounters.
Primary Care Trusts in England were asked to contact primary care practices, alerting clinicians to the availability of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) decision support tool.
Is there a paradigm shift from "(re)act-on-observation" to "act-on-forecast" or in other terms a "redefinition of practice from alerts to prediction" (Bruzzone 2015, p. 179) on the ground?
The analysis of the exposure indicator system is an important QC practice that alerts the radiographer to the occurrence of sub-optimal exposures; these may have a direct impact on the IQ and patient dose.
