Recommendations to Improve the Current eMAR System NURS FPX 6412 Assessment 3 Manuscript for Publication

The eMAR system effectively reduces medication errors and adverse events, but there is always room for improvement to enhance technological aid to yield more benefits for the stakeholders. As the eMAR system is a digital system, it operates on electricity; however, if there is a power blackout, the healthcare providers cannot access the patient information, nor can they provide remote healthcare services. To prevent possible healthcare disparities due to delays in treatment caused by power blackouts, the healthcare system can initiate the implementation of a backup power source through generators, solar panels, or an Uninterrupted Power Supply (Guven et al., 2021). This would help ensure that the in-patients and outpatients (remote) are provided access to healthcare services without delay (Bean et al., 2020). 

The eMAR system is an electronic system; thus, there is a need to have a backup system where all the patient’s information is kept safe and updated. The backup will ensure the data is not lost if hacking or data theft or care system. This means that the patient’s information has been lost or deleted. The documentation process is digitalized, and the healthcare system will have no way to recover the information. It would need to restart its data entry process from the beginning, which would take months until the patient information has been restored. This lengthy process would hamper safe, and quality care as the healthcare providers will be engrossed and stressed about patient information and documentation procedure. To prevent this from happening, backup data through a cloud system or Google Drive would ensure a safer alternative if the data were to be hacked or deleted (Aguirre et al., 2019)