Electronic Medical Record in a Healthcare Industry Electronic Medical Record is a type of information system that collects the date of each patient and stores their medical record, medication, and allergies on a protected server. Electronics medical records can also store x-rays, billing information, individual’s personal information, vital signs, radiology images, laboratory tests, and much more. Everything that medical personnel would ever need a patient history and/or doctor visits would all be stored in a medical record system. Electronic medical records are not only accessible to a hospital for analysis on a patient; it can be accessed on a networked connected database. It has a connected network that multiple hospitals have access
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It’s not that it’s from doctors having access to all of this data, but when they remove the data and send it unsecured to another individual. These information systems hold a significant amount of legal risk when you have access to an individual’s life history. If a data breach occurs, then all individuals must be notified, if over 500 individuals were affected then the HHS must also be notified. In 2015about 4.5 million individuals records were hacked at UCLA Medical Center. This is why we have to worry about HIPAA violations, but also lawsuits for when a hacker does get access into hospital electronic medical records. These are just a few issues that hospitals will have to overcome when they switch to an electronic medical record …show more content…
It is looking to grow an annual of 7.6% each year to adapt to the demand for health services. It has an employment a total of 16,775 with and is being implemented in about 1,268 businesses. 61.6% of hospitals plan on installing some form of an electronic medical record system within the next 3 years. If all the providers install an electronic medical record system in 2009 then that would mean that 87% hospital-based ASCs, 80% EDs, 71% OPDs, 63% freestanding ASCs, and 59A% office based physicians will have some form of an electronic medical record
It’s not that it’s from doctors having access to all of this data, but when they remove the data and send it unsecured to another individual. These information systems hold a significant amount of legal risk when you have access to an individual’s life history. If a data breach occurs, then all individuals must be notified, if over 500 individuals were affected then the HHS must also be notified. In 2015about 4.5 million individuals records were hacked at UCLA Medical Center. This is why we have to worry about HIPAA violations, but also lawsuits for when a hacker does get access into hospital electronic medical records. These are just a few issues that hospitals will have to overcome when they switch to an electronic medical record …show more content…
It is looking to grow an annual of 7.6% each year to adapt to the demand for health services. It has an employment a total of 16,775 with and is being implemented in about 1,268 businesses. 61.6% of hospitals plan on installing some form of an electronic medical record system within the next 3 years. If all the providers install an electronic medical record system in 2009 then that would mean that 87% hospital-based ASCs, 80% EDs, 71% OPDs, 63% freestanding ASCs, and 59A% office based physicians will have some form of an electronic medical record