Electronic Health Records (EHR) Essay

Nursing had experienced abundant transformation in the last 20 years. The advancement of the profession, and progression from care worker to knowledge worker has shown the survival and value of nurses. It has also given a preview of the future of nursing. Finding nursing’s path in a world of innovation and technology has been complex. Looking to the past, there has been a shift from nurse’s responsibility lying mostly in patient care tasks and concentrating on doctor orders, to the focus being…

For most older adults, low adoption rates for home-based health IT are not necessarily related to lack of technology access, interest, or skill. In 2014 The Pew Research Institute found that 59% of seniors (age 65 and older) report going online as compared to 89% of all adults. Pew also reports that 23% of seniors do not and have not used a cell phone. Wealth and education levels also correlate to higher levels of internet use in seniors. 90% of seniors with a household income of at least…

Targeted News Service (March, 2013) reported that survey results released by the American College of Physicians showed physician satisfaction declining with the ease of use of the electronic medical records. A key finding in this report was that not only did the transition to electronic medical record take a toll on productivity, but this decreased productivity continued after implementation. “With fewer physicians choosing primary care as their specialty, the demand for primary care physicians…

groups of patients. In primary care, examples of health IT include the following: Clinical decision support, Computerized disease registries, Computerized provider order entry, Consumer health IT applications, Electronic medical record systems (EMRs, EHRs, and PHRs), Electronic prescribing,…

In her article Is It Possible to Curtail Copy & Paste? Lisa Eramo (2017) discusses the prevalence of copy-and-paste documentation in electronic health records, along with its challenges and benefits, and strategies to prevent documentation errors. This article utilized qualitative methodologies to examine issues caused by cloning of electronic documentation in patient’s medical files, using examples from a report published by the ECRI institute and Patient Safety Organization (PSO). This…

Today we will be going over some new movement in the healthcare field. One you will find out doesn’t even have a truly set definition of what it is. The others is behind the curve with rest of the services out there. This paper will be defining what Population Health is, Healthcare Information Technology is and what it is, and will be going over how healthcare Information technology can help Population Health in the future. Population Health is a new term being used in United States since 2003…

It is much easier to retrieve and track patient data using an EHR and patient registries than to use labor-intensive paper chart reviews. EHRs are much better organized than paper charts, allowing for faster retrieval of lab or x-ray results. It is also likely that an EHR will have an electronic problem summary list that outlines a patient’s major illnesses, surgeries, allergies and medications. How many times does…

UMUC Family Clinic data flow with external healthcare organizations There are two important healthcare organizations that need to communicate and have data flow with UMUC Family Clinic. These organizations are pharmaceutical and insurance company. It is important for UMUC Family Clinic to communicate for instance with pharmaceutical organization because Dr. Martin will be sending electronic prescription on behalf of his patients to the pharmacist. The pharmacist will require some form of…

care coordination In recent years, the healthcare sector has invested heavily in IT to enhance decision – making and increase its efficiency through improved medical processes and the use of integrative and interoperable electronic health record (EHR) (Itamar Shabtai; Moshe Leshno;Shawnra Hill ;Ofir Ben-Assuli 2013;Goldschemidt 2005). There is an agreement among medical staff that access to a comprehensive electronic record of medical history benefits patients (Boonestra 2008).…

elevation of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care. The HIT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was employed in 2009—assigning over $19 billion to surge the use of EHRs by…