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ECWeb will benefit everyone in the ethics consultation community in a number of useful ways. Importantly, by making it possible to systematically collect data on ethics consultations, ECWeb will provide VA ethics consultants with the means to systematically evaluate how they are doing. Being able to do this will make it much easier to:
Identify areas that need improvement Formulate realistic, achievable improvement strategies Allocate limited resources effectively Document workload Reward ethical aspects of performance Having a repository of information on your previous consultations can help not only in planning and management, but in completing everyday tasks as well. If you conduct ethics consultations, you will almost certainly find it useful to be able to quickly locate and review your consultation records that addressed similar concerns in the past. This may well help you get to the heart of the current matter more quickly. And it will definitely help maintain consistency across consultations. Using ECWeb will also improve record keeping in a number of important ways.
First, by residing behind VA's firewall, ECWeb provides a more secure way to store the confidential information that often arises in ethics consultations Second, by structuring data entry, ECWeb promotes systematic documentation of consultation activity Third, by providing a means to transfer data entered into ECWeb into patients' health records, ECWeb can be used to generate consistent, thorough consultation summaries for the health record Fourth, by storing data electronically, ECWeb reduces paperwork And finally, ECWeb has been designed to help you complete your work more efficiently. If you perform consultations, ECWeb will help you follow the CASES approach in your consultations. If you are responsible for collecting evaluation information, ECWeb will guide you through this process. And, whatever your role, if there is something you need to remember to do, you can have ECWeb send you an email reminder on the day you specify. |
