There internet has had a major impact in healthcare, the first wave of that impact was to give information to consumers. As a result, no longer you had to wait until you got sick and had to go to the doctor to get the information you need it. Now you can go to the internet and find information about different health conditions that matters to the consumer. The second wave is how the consumer stars actively managing their health care through use of a PHR. Many studies show that is extremely important to be able to access to this medical information on times of crisis. As in example, we have what happen during hurricane Katrina, where many patients weren’t able to access their medical records as a result many critical patients couldn’t get their
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Some doctors are excited about the process of transferring from paper charts over to a full electronic system, other doctors not so much. This is because they feel overwhelmed by the extensive government regulations and they feel that the costs does not outweigh the effort of the transfer. Before our health care system started using a comprehensive EHR system, doctors didn’t have the government economic incentives to proceed to change the way they maintained medical records, processed payments, issued prescriptions, etc. In present times the government has develop a plan to distribute economic incentives to medical practices that adopt the EHR …show more content…
This situation suggests the need for all medical facilities to implement and enforce the use of this system. A great example of institutions that has implemented the EHR system is the Veteran Health Administration, all the VA hospitals across the country have adopted this system. This means that the doctor practicing in this hospital will have all of his patient’s medical information always available. When the physician prescribes medications nobody has to decipher the doctor’s hand writing. The EHR system gives the physician support when prescribing medication, if the patient has allergies the system will alert him. This has led to improvement and quality and reduce errors with in the VA medical system. This demonstrates that many medical facilities can obtain the same benefits, because the common goal is to improve patient care. This is the type of care all of us deserve and expect from American
Some doctors are excited about the process of transferring from paper charts over to a full electronic system, other doctors not so much. This is because they feel overwhelmed by the extensive government regulations and they feel that the costs does not outweigh the effort of the transfer. Before our health care system started using a comprehensive EHR system, doctors didn’t have the government economic incentives to proceed to change the way they maintained medical records, processed payments, issued prescriptions, etc. In present times the government has develop a plan to distribute economic incentives to medical practices that adopt the EHR …show more content…
This situation suggests the need for all medical facilities to implement and enforce the use of this system. A great example of institutions that has implemented the EHR system is the Veteran Health Administration, all the VA hospitals across the country have adopted this system. This means that the doctor practicing in this hospital will have all of his patient’s medical information always available. When the physician prescribes medications nobody has to decipher the doctor’s hand writing. The EHR system gives the physician support when prescribing medication, if the patient has allergies the system will alert him. This has led to improvement and quality and reduce errors with in the VA medical system. This demonstrates that many medical facilities can obtain the same benefits, because the common goal is to improve patient care. This is the type of care all of us deserve and expect from American