patient quality and safety is performed in order to renew or give the hospital’s accreditation. “However, to ensure compliance with all health information-related standards, review of all sections and monitoring of all pertinent standards that are found is important” (Sayles, 2013). The Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) also has access to LGH’s health system. It is needed to track all electronic medical record (EMR) progress used at this hospital. With the advancing technology, LGH has completely transitioned from the use of paper records to Electronic Records. They were awarded by HIMSS Analytics in the acute care stage 7 for electronic medical records use. “Stage 7 hospitals operate in a paperless environment and represent
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It also offers “care at a distance” which means any organization in the Epic community are able to use telehealth. “Telehealth allows a physician to examine and treat a patient without either party traveling” (Sayles, 2013). With telehealth, doctors use telephones and videos to care for a patient who is at home or across the world. The weakness of this system is cost; it is expensive to implement an EMR and it does not let an organization use other systems. The system allows sharing, but they charge a fee for every data or charts shared, “Epic EMR systems do not allow users to share data in a way that will satisfy Meaningful Use requirements, since the software charges a fee to send data to some non-Epic systems” (Theme, n.d). This system is developed, implemented and supported within the organization. Their team includes clinicians, creators and process experts. It is any staffs who have extreme knowledge and background in patient care and healthcare …show more content…
Something I found interesting is how a company like Epic could be started in the basement with one and a half employees and is now the top rated vendor in America. Epic is task oriented and has many functions to benefit a facility’s needs. The medical team uses the health systems to document patient care and provide the best possible care for the patients. The strengths of the system would be having telehealth so physicians are able to care for patients outside the hospital. They are also able to exchange records even if it is for a fee. Since Epic is a private company, a challenge to the system includes having to pay a fee for every charts and data shared with other facilities who do not use Epic as their main system. An opportunity for improvement could be allowing organizations to share charts or data, no matter which system they use and not having to pay the fee. Lancaster General Hospital is continuing to improve by finding the best methods to care for their patients. They strictly stand by their mission “to advance the health and well-being of the communities we serve” (Health,
It also offers “care at a distance” which means any organization in the Epic community are able to use telehealth. “Telehealth allows a physician to examine and treat a patient without either party traveling” (Sayles, 2013). With telehealth, doctors use telephones and videos to care for a patient who is at home or across the world. The weakness of this system is cost; it is expensive to implement an EMR and it does not let an organization use other systems. The system allows sharing, but they charge a fee for every data or charts shared, “Epic EMR systems do not allow users to share data in a way that will satisfy Meaningful Use requirements, since the software charges a fee to send data to some non-Epic systems” (Theme, n.d). This system is developed, implemented and supported within the organization. Their team includes clinicians, creators and process experts. It is any staffs who have extreme knowledge and background in patient care and healthcare …show more content…
Something I found interesting is how a company like Epic could be started in the basement with one and a half employees and is now the top rated vendor in America. Epic is task oriented and has many functions to benefit a facility’s needs. The medical team uses the health systems to document patient care and provide the best possible care for the patients. The strengths of the system would be having telehealth so physicians are able to care for patients outside the hospital. They are also able to exchange records even if it is for a fee. Since Epic is a private company, a challenge to the system includes having to pay a fee for every charts and data shared with other facilities who do not use Epic as their main system. An opportunity for improvement could be allowing organizations to share charts or data, no matter which system they use and not having to pay the fee. Lancaster General Hospital is continuing to improve by finding the best methods to care for their patients. They strictly stand by their mission “to advance the health and well-being of the communities we serve” (Health,