Electronic health record

Electronic Health Record Implementation Advancements in technology have grown rapidly over the years, even integrating itself into the medical field. Gone are the days of paper charting and handwritten prescriptions allowing for a decrease in medical errors and an increase in patient safety. With the attacks on September 11, 2001, the nation acknowledged a need for standardized electronic health records. Many facilities have already implemented the use of electronic health records; however,…

Nurses are the backbone of the health care system. It is imperative for them to access all technology that is available to improve the quality of care provided for their patients. The article emphasizes on the use of Electronic Health Record to identify patients who are at risk for complication related to their diagnoses and how the system can alert the nurse clinician of their risk. According to the article the use of Electronic Health Record has contributed to the quality of care…

Barriers to Electronic Health Records Implementation According to Landi (2017), the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) index stated that although the health care industries are adopting to electronic health records technology reasonably, healthcare providers still need to be affected on using information technology to avoid wasteful spending on business administrative costs. Moreover, Landi (2017) mentioned CAQH claim that if healthcare providers implement the electronic…

Electronic Medical Records The purpose of this case analysis is to address the problem related to Electronic Medical Records and Health Care. Let us, examine how effective can be EMR to support health care of the patient. Technology has always been helpful in solving the problems associated to health and medical care. Advance technologies have been used to cure diseased people all around the world. Let's have a look at another Digitizing Technology, i.e. EMR (Rouse, 2011). Problem in Case…

Movement to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) The federal government would like to see a vast movement toward adopting Electronic Health Records (EHRs) by 2015. This is evident by the incentive programs that are included in the 2009 HITECH Act. Along with this act, the regulations set forth by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provide for a reduction of Medicare payments to providers who neglect to adopt EHR by the beginning of 2015. This mandate poses considerable…

problem is that the staff members do not have much experience using the system which will require trainings and more procedures. What are the possible causes and contributing factors of each problem? The first problem is the fact that the Electronic Health Records system is very expensive. One of the causes is that the systems might require expertise for its installation making the cost higher. In addition, there might be other resources that require much money then, making the cost higher.…

This case study is about system acquisition process of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system by Valley Practice. System acquisition process includes first two phases of the SDLC. It refers to the process form the time decision is made to select a new EHR system until a contract is signed between the vendor and Valley Practice. The procedure followed by the practice started with a two days of strategic planning session in which mission, vision…

1. Describe the 5 functional components of an electronic health record system and provide examples for 3 of the components. According to McDonald, Tang, and Hripcsak (2014), “An electronic health record (EHR) is a repository of electronically maintained information about an individual’s health status and health care, stored such that it can serve the multiple legitimate uses and users of the record”. Furthermore, the EHR comprises five functional components i.e., integrated view of patient data,…

Informatics Electronic Health records: A boon or privacy nightmare? Health records are supposed to be private and secure. This article shows how not all health records end up being private and secure. Health records were stored in different ways. People were trying to steal private information. Then you had people that didn't know they could be committing a crime and saw it as no big deal.Health records were supposed to be secure years ago and now. If health records were put in the wrong…

the health system for care, the pressure in the physicians practice can be overwhelming. Any physician would rather have more face time with a patient then spend time on administrative work. I do not believe Physicians “ game the system”, I think that electronic health records systems has just made it easier for physicians to document appropriately. Unfortunately, the old paper encounter could not reflect all of the complexity behind what actually happens during a visit. The electronic health…