Health informatics

been so easy. The creation of Electronic Health Records(EHR) has made it so easy for healthcare workers to access patient medical records for an efficient and accurate care. Every healthcare Institution under HIPAA is responsible for the protection of maintaining patient records, regardless of whether they use a vendor to process or store their patient information. It’s so important that privacy and security must cover all of healthcare company’s health information systems for HIPAA compliant…

000 deaths have occurred annually because of medical errors (Sultz & Young, p 89). The implementation of EMR can reduce significant mistakes, by utilizing computerized prescription entry, predicting drug interactions and displaying a warning for the health-care provider, assisting clinicians in reconciling patient medications, and most important, maintaining a detailed and legible medical record. The electronic medical record (EMR) facilitates information accessibility and communication among…

in America. Obama’s plan was to switch hospitals, insurance companies, and other medical institutions to electronic health records systems. President Obama’s plan would definitely be very beneficial to the healthcare society. An electronic health record will save many more lives by providing a more efficient way of storing and recording patient’s health data. An electronic health record is a digital version of a patient’s chart that contains the patient’s medical history, diagnoses,…

Electronic Health Records Article Overview The article that I chose to analyze discusses upcoming changes with the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) requirements due to the overall cost. I selected this particular article because cost seems to be playing a major factor for our office and making the decision to purchase an EHR program. It is evident that the one priority with mandating physicians and hospitals to implement EHRs into their facility was to simplify tasks while improving the…

EHRs? EHR is an acronym that stands for Electronic Health Record. EHRs are digital collections of vital patient information such as medical history, treatments, and medication use. This virtual data can be shared broadly across various healthcare services and professionals for the diagnostic assessment of a patient (Young et al., 2018). EHRs have been implemented since the year 2009 when the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was created. 2. Are EHRs widely used?…

In today’s world, many hospitals, physicians, and organizations are using the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) instead of paper charts to record patient information. The purpose of EHRs is to document and record the patient’s overall health information such as their medical history, treatment plans, diagnosis, and medications, etc. There are advantages and disadvantages of using EHRs instead of paper records, here are a few known pros and cons for us to better understand the adoption of EHRs.…

There are many reasons for establishing a personal health record. Keeping an updated personal health record (PHR) can save you a lot of time, money, and maybe even your life one day. If you are switching doctors or getting different health insurance due to the Affordable Care Act, a PHR will provide you with the records you need to easily make that transition, and when you get to the doctor you can make better use of the visit because you have everything in one place, there will be no guessing…

What is Health Information Exchange? Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) embrace the potential to assimilate patient data residing across dissimilar information systems in numerous hospitals to recover care coordination, patient engagement, and provisioning of real-time information to physicians. Electronic health information exchange (HIE) permits doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other healthcare providers and patients to properly access and securely share a patient’s vital medical information…

development of AHIMA states that health information management (HIM) professionals are responsible for improving “the quality of healthcare by insuring that the best information is available for making any healthcare decision” by managing healthcare data and information resources (Zeng, MD, PhD, Reynolds, EdD, RHIA, & Sharp, MBA, RHIA, 2009) . Explain policies and standards that govern health IT Health information technology (health IT) involves the exchange of health information in an…

When differentiating between an Electronic Health Record (EHR) and an Electronic Medical Record (EMR), we are dealing with electronic data that can be created, controlled, and accessed at different locations, or one specific location. An EMR is a patient’s paper-based medical file for a unique location, such as a doctor’s office, or clinic, which has been transferred into digital format. With an EHR a patient’s digital personal, and medical information is broader, by allowing various locations…