Electronic medical record

Introduction The transition from hardcopy health records to electronic health records (EHR) creates a need for new protocols to protect patient data. “Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to adopt standards for electronic medical transaction,” these standards are to protect patient health records. The standards three main focuses are; 1) “to protect and enhance the rights of consumers by providing them access…

conducted, we will analyze the impact pertaining to emergency health records (EHR) and discuss the relevance of administration and clinical work, which contributes to information technology, electronic health records, and information requirements in technology. The analysis will describe the most important reasons why policy makers’ use the delivery of technology information in the health care industry. Keywords: electronic health record evidence based, economic evaluation, computerized…

The outpatient facility I am going to discuss is pediatric primary health care facilities. Pediatric primary health care is an outpatient facility that deals with the medical care of children from birth to adolescents up to 18 years old. The most important provider in a pediatric primary health care facility is the pediatrician. A pediatrician is a primary care doctor who only sees children, and specializes in the physical, emotional, and behavioral needs of children. A pediatrician does…

with Electronic Health Records (EHR). EHR’s make health care delivery more functional than ever. Menachemi and Collum (2011), tell us that EHR’s include patient demographics, progress notes, current problems, medications, and vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory and radiology data. Over a lifetime, a patient’s data accumulates in a variety of different facilities. Providers used to depend on faxing or mailing each other important information and patient records.…

through the access of this electronic records new system. This mandate will improve the quality of care, improve accuracy and the delivery of care, the convenience of delivery of…

use of computer programs to facilitate the delivery of health care. Electronic medical charting has increased the accuracy and proliferate the productivity of nursing documentation, eliminated redundancy, and fosters the analysis of clinical data. The ability to retrieve nursing data quickly, promotes decision-making at all levels of health care delivery, reduce errors of omission and enhance the ability to track medical records. My experience with health care information begins with paper…

maintenance of documentation integrity in their electronic healthcare records (EHR). Accuracy in documentation is critical for a healthcare organization as it seeks to provide high-quality care for its patients. An electronic health record (EHR), as well as current health information technology (HIT) is important to a healthcare organization in order to provide care that is efficient and safer for its patients. Through accurately completing health records, implementing policies and procedures,…

profession. Effective nurse-patient communication and the whole health team are essential in ensuring that this goal being met. Miscommunication or failure to communicate the patient information effectively among the health team can result in poor care, medical mistake and can even be harmful to the patient. (Paget, L., Han, P., Nedza, S., Kurtz, P., Racine, E., Russell, S., Santa, J., Schumann, M., Simha, J. and Von Kohorn, I. 2011, June). Nurses need to have a clear understanding of their…

one set payment for multiple services. Accountable Care Organizations consists of multiple health providers that offer medical services across various medical specialties. These providers share the responsibility of cost while providing high quality healthcare to patients. The providers have a clear understanding of reducing the cost of healthcare by not duplicating medical services for patients. Accountable Care Organizations must also satisfy specific quality measures as outlined by the…

Electronic Data Interchange is an electronic communication method that delivers standards for exchanging data by electronic means. EDI has a set of standards that requires that any patient health information must be in EDI standards from one computer to another. The rules are different types of trades that are covered under HIPAA. According to the article HIPAA: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Rule, “Electronic transactions such as health care claims, claims status and remittance advices (RA),…