The second step is to plan how you want to implement your electronic health records. This step entails thinking about how you are going to start, stop, or what are you going to continue within your practice. After planning your approach, you need to understand your current work flow and find out if this workflow will need to continue or whether or not changes need to be done. Create a plan of what you want to do and create alternative in case the first plan will not work at this time. One last major concern is to create a plan to address privacy and security ("How to implement EHRs," 2014).
The third step is to upgrade to a certified electronic health record which is essential. Within this step, it is imperative that the leadership team …show more content…
Whereas, when the goals are met, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act do provide financial incentives. These goals are, to improve quality health of a patient, to become involved with both the patients and their family, to improve care for the patients which may involve other agencies and, more importantly, they must maintain the privacy and security of all their health record information ("How to implement EHRs," …show more content…
Unfortunately, there was issue when this was implemented. Within the private sector of a physician’s office, doctors and nurse practitioners were concerned that the EHRs would be time consuming and take away from the care of their patient. To be able to talk and care for the patient while also updating and making sure all the charting was done correctly was a big concern. Were the patients going to feel neglected because the doctor is typing in the computer while they are talking to them? For the “old time doctors”, who were use to paper charting, typing and understanding where and how to enter data in the computer was also a concern. Not even to mention the anger they felt that by not keeping the EHRs up to date that they may lose reimbursement payments by Medicare/Medicaid per the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Sheridan, 2012). In addition to private practice, the hospital establishment also had a hard time implementing this idea. Not only does the doctor have to maintain all the records and information for their patient but the hospital are required to have all the doctors/ residents/ nurse practitioners use the computerized physician order entry system. It is required by the Act that 80% of the order entered into the computer must be done by the doctor in order to receive and obtain financial incentives. Inevitably, the private sector doctors along the hospital adhered
The third step is to upgrade to a certified electronic health record which is essential. Within this step, it is imperative that the leadership team …show more content…
Whereas, when the goals are met, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act do provide financial incentives. These goals are, to improve quality health of a patient, to become involved with both the patients and their family, to improve care for the patients which may involve other agencies and, more importantly, they must maintain the privacy and security of all their health record information ("How to implement EHRs," …show more content…
Unfortunately, there was issue when this was implemented. Within the private sector of a physician’s office, doctors and nurse practitioners were concerned that the EHRs would be time consuming and take away from the care of their patient. To be able to talk and care for the patient while also updating and making sure all the charting was done correctly was a big concern. Were the patients going to feel neglected because the doctor is typing in the computer while they are talking to them? For the “old time doctors”, who were use to paper charting, typing and understanding where and how to enter data in the computer was also a concern. Not even to mention the anger they felt that by not keeping the EHRs up to date that they may lose reimbursement payments by Medicare/Medicaid per the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Sheridan, 2012). In addition to private practice, the hospital establishment also had a hard time implementing this idea. Not only does the doctor have to maintain all the records and information for their patient but the hospital are required to have all the doctors/ residents/ nurse practitioners use the computerized physician order entry system. It is required by the Act that 80% of the order entered into the computer must be done by the doctor in order to receive and obtain financial incentives. Inevitably, the private sector doctors along the hospital adhered