Electronic health record

paid to artists are given to the label. Jared Leto, lead singer of the band Thirty Seconds to Mars, told the Rolling Stone that "if you think the fact that we have sold in excess of 2 million records and have never been paid a penny is pretty unbelievable, well, so do we” (Kreps 2). Of the millions of records that the band sold, zero profit has been made. It’s easy to think that artists should read their contracts before they sign them so that they know what they’re getting themselves into. If…

attraction. XXYYXX is a twenty-year old black electronic dance music artist who challenges stereotypes and uses his racial, age, and gender identity to creatively produce music without the boundaries of modern convention. XXYYXX, otherwise known as Marcel Everett, considers his genre to be “post-internet” due to his rise to fame via social media, and specializes in heavily sampled electronic dance music (Taylor). Critics hail XXYYXX as the “child prodigy” of electronic dance music (Eror).…

Did you hear about the old abandoned house in Berwick Pennsylvania? Well I have, I heard it from my best friend's, friend's dead uncle, John. He said it started a long time ago in a library. The library was brand new, just built. John was 16 years old and was heading towards the library to find a nonfiction book about Pennsylvania's history for a research project. When he entered the library he felt something strange, but he didn't know what was making him feel this way. He went to the…

Mamlin presented an overview of the Wishard/Eskenazi Health Services Medical Gopher (Gopher) and G3 systems. The Medical Gopher system was first developed in 1984 as an outpatient order entry system and in 1990 expanded into the inpatient setting. Gopher has been in in continuous use supporting a 350-bed hospital, 12 community health centers, and 79 clinics that provide a variety of services (Duke et al., 2014). Gopher is an electronic medical record (EMR) system and by definition a…

One of the primary reasons for the successful TB intervention at Rush-Copley Medical Center can be attributed to strong collaboration between the staff in the ED, infection prevention professionals, and the county, state, and federal public health departments. This collaborative effort allowed successful management of 45 active and 350 latent TB patients in the homeless population over the course of four years (Homan, 2013). Rush-Copley also was in direct communication with the Centers for…

money into health care (Blank, 2012). However, the overall performance of the American healthcare system is lower in comparison to those other countries. American leaders seek innovative ways to improve patient outcomes. One of those strategies to patient outcomes and improve quality of care is the customizing of health care. The paper will discuss how customization is evident in health care, particularly with Electronic Medical Records (EMR), to improve quality. Electronic Medical Records…

Introduction Over the years, the healthcare in the U.S. has struggled with how to maintain patient health information and how to keep it safe and private. The HIM (Health Information Management) industry can be traced back to the 1920s, when healthcare professionals realized that patient caring would be more effective for both the provider and the patient. Documentation became popular and was used throughout the U.S. after healthcare providers realized that it was impossible to treat the…

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are constantly evolving and beneficial to healthcare. Dryden Family Medicine (DFM) has operated for a number of decades without the use of EMRs and it has grown into a challenge that they intended on fixing. Through the use of EMR, the practice has had an increase in revenue, an increase in employee satisfaction and incentives from federal and private insurers. This case study focuses on the stages of implementing a EMR and how it is used to benefit DFM.…

the degree that I acquire from this program, I will pursue a career as a medical database administrator where I will tailor my skills to maintain and potential improve the electronic medical record. Through my interactions with medical staff from various facilities, I have realized that the electronic keeping of health record can often be convoluted and can result in error. While I recognize that more needs to be done in terms of user friendliness and transfer of data between facilities, I don’t…

Health care information related regulations, laws, and standards There are a variety of health care information related regulations, laws, and standards. These together through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act aim to produce better health care. These regulations, laws, and standards, cover items from the transfer of information between involved parties through what constitutes acceptable…