Benefits of electronic charts in intensive care and during a world health pandemic: advantages of the technology age.

Aims And Objectives: This study sets out to describe benefits from the implementation of electronic observation charting in intensive care units (ICU). This was an extension to the existing hospital wide digital health system. We evaluated error reduction, time-savings and the costs associated with conversion from paper to digital records.

Dietitians can improve accuracy of prescribing by interacting with electronic prescribing systems.

Background: Dietitians increasingly interact with electronic health records (EHRs) and use them to alert prescribers to medication inaccuracies.

Objective: To understand renal dietitians' use of electronic prescribing systems and influence on medication accuracy in inpatients. In outpatients to determine whether renal dietitians' use of the electronic medication recording might improve accuracy.