Patient-Centric Systems The use of health information technology (HIT) can be seen as a tool that makes it feasible for health care providers to better handle patients ' care through a secured and health information sharing process. By making health information available electronically has also brought health care closer to the patient when and where it is needed. Apart from making health information easily accessible, HIT can make health care more cost effective and improve its quality. Some of the health information technology include consumer health IT applications, clinical decision support, electronic medical record systems (EMRs, EHRs, and PHRs), computerized provider order entry, computerized disease registries, and electronic prescribing.
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Through HIT, the electronic health records (EHRs) can improve healthcare quality, safety, and effectiveness. This can be achieved by harmonizing patient 's health information with appropriate clinical knowledge so that clinicians can incorporate that information or knowledge into decision-making. Clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a means that enhances decision-making by clinicians and patients in their healthcare management. As patients participate and become partners in their care through personal health records (PHRs) and EHRs integration, information generated can become relevant clinical facts to guide clinicians to provide timely services tailor to specific health needs of patients. To optimize patient outcomes, it is vital to record and store relevant health information that can be accessed easily as needed to strengthen clinical decision making (Levy, & Heyes, 2012). For example, incorporation of clinical decision support systems into EHR can ensure that a patient receives appropriate preventive care and proper management of chronic illnesses. On the other hand, the goals of patient-centered care cannot be realized without the use of computerized physician order entry (CPOE). The CPOE allows clinicians to enter patients ' orders …show more content…
The connection among these systems reduces the time and the extra efforts of going to other units physically to obtain test results before making a decision. In health delivery, time is critical to patient 's full recovery and survival. Physicians can request a test electronically and obtain the results through the same medium as they strive to restore health. Normally, the EHR software comes with optional expansion modules which allow patients ' history, diagnostic test results, and medical imaging to be integrated into a single set of records for easy access through any computer on the medical
Through HIT, the electronic health records (EHRs) can improve healthcare quality, safety, and effectiveness. This can be achieved by harmonizing patient 's health information with appropriate clinical knowledge so that clinicians can incorporate that information or knowledge into decision-making. Clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a means that enhances decision-making by clinicians and patients in their healthcare management. As patients participate and become partners in their care through personal health records (PHRs) and EHRs integration, information generated can become relevant clinical facts to guide clinicians to provide timely services tailor to specific health needs of patients. To optimize patient outcomes, it is vital to record and store relevant health information that can be accessed easily as needed to strengthen clinical decision making (Levy, & Heyes, 2012). For example, incorporation of clinical decision support systems into EHR can ensure that a patient receives appropriate preventive care and proper management of chronic illnesses. On the other hand, the goals of patient-centered care cannot be realized without the use of computerized physician order entry (CPOE). The CPOE allows clinicians to enter patients ' orders …show more content…
The connection among these systems reduces the time and the extra efforts of going to other units physically to obtain test results before making a decision. In health delivery, time is critical to patient 's full recovery and survival. Physicians can request a test electronically and obtain the results through the same medium as they strive to restore health. Normally, the EHR software comes with optional expansion modules which allow patients ' history, diagnostic test results, and medical imaging to be integrated into a single set of records for easy access through any computer on the medical