The Importance of Mapping Existing and Future Workflows

The Importance of Mapping Existing and Future Workflows
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Workflows are successive steps performed by the employees to finish a task. In the medical setting, workflow mapping is vital to promote transparency by visualizing the key processes. This significantly increases efficiency, decrease inaccuracies, and improve outcomes CITATION Agend \l 1033 (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.).
Clinicians and other medical personnel are responsible for the life of the patients. Thus, maximum accuracy is necessary to prevent chaos in the workplace that may harm the patient. Furthermore, an excellent organization of tasks and referrals is essential to achieve maximum efficiency. Hence, increasing the available time to assist the patients.
Mapping of the existing workflows permits the administration to look for loopholes, which may act as potential harm to the patients. These loopholes can also be a factor for potential failures in the management. When these loopholes are identified, these can be incorporated in the planning for future workflows. By contrast, mapping of the future wor...