Ambulatory care

hindrance to service delivery. In particular, the essay will analyze how EHR enhances a patient’s safety. Advantages The electronic health records allow easy retrieval of a patient’s records for follow-up (Menachemi & Collum, 2011). In the case of acute care, technology…

practiced in a number of facilities. From ambulatory care facilities to mental health facilities they are continually using analysis techniques as well as visualization tools to improve decisions making about data collections and use. Data can be used to improve protocol, practices, track outcomes of patients. HIM professionals work to help establish electronic data criteria and are responsible for multiple different databases with information crucial to the quality care of patients. By…

Health information technology (HIT) is changing rapidly, affecting how clinicians in ambulatory care practice medicine. Electronic health records (EHRs) permit electronic documentation of current and historical health, tests, referrals, and medical treatments as well as enabling practitioners to order tests and medications electronically. EHR systems have the potential to improve communication between physicians and patients by making data more readily available. At the same time, the…

Lexington Medical Center (LMC) Urgent Care in Irmo, is one of the physician practices under the Physician Network Services. For physician services at LMC-Urgent Care, continuing education is for the nurse practitioners, physicians, and other staff that uses Misys. Misys is a financial software that is used in the revenue department in Urgent Care. The Coding Compliance Educator (CCE) at Lexington Medical Center-Physician Network Services (PNS) provides the auditing, training of codes, updates…

Therefore, nurses? responsibility, the nature of care, and nurses? role has also changed. This paper is centered around the evolving health care changes and its impact on the nursing profession, including a continuum of care, accountable care organization, medical home, and nurses managed health clinics. Furthermore, this paper is presented to three nurses colleague and their opinion and feedback are discussed. In the 21st century, health care practices have changed rapidly compared to previous…

become part of the healthcare team mainly in acute, long-term, primary care and public health settings. According to the Institute of Medicine (2011), one of the primary goals of nursing education is to meet the diverse patient needs as well as function as a leader. The demand for nurses…

health care: urgent care, a walk-in clinic. Although urgent care is not exactly like an emergency room, it is a clinic that handles many medical problems that are not too severe but need to be treated right away, especially if your primary care physician is not available. It is important that you realize that urgent care clinics are not a substitute for your primary care physician, but they are a great resource when you need care but can not get in with your doctor. Visiting an urgent care…

Cone Health System is a health system Central North Carolina operating across multiple counties and serving those communities through six hospitals, three ambulatory centers, three outpatient surgery centers, four urgent care centers, 100 plus physician practices and two retirement communities. Having worked with the system for 19 years I have seen the system utilize multiple strategic methods to gain a competitive advantage in the region. Acquisition is the one the first strategies that the…

Rheumatoid arthritis is an unwelcoming disease where millions of people are diagnosed with it per year and is a painful process if you have a severe case of it. Symptoms vary for every individual's body joint, but the cause of it still remains unknown although research within a few years we will be able to pinpoint the cause, but for now we will rely on the information presented to us. There are a couple of therapies used to cope with Rheumatoid arthritis and seem to be beneficial to reduce pain…

laterality, the addition of sixth and seventh characters, the creation of combination diagnosis/symptom codes to reduce the number of codes needed to fully describe a condition, expanded injury codes and the addition of information relevant to ambulatory and managed care encounters. These…