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Adoption of New Technology using Rogers’ Theory Nurses can have a great impact on the success or failure of the adoption of electronic health record’s (EHRs). There are many challenges to implementing an EHR and nurse acceptance and buy-in are critical. Describing how a nurse facilitator can prepare the nursing staff for an EMR transition through a pre-implementation team meeting is important because nurse resistance of new technology is often high. Nurses as Change Agents Nurses are in a…

Introduction Electronic health records is the process of replacing traditional paper medical records according to Shi & Singh (2013, p. 109). Electronic health records have the potential to save time, eliminate errors and duplications, as well as improve the quality of health care delivery. However with all these different possibilities come limitations such as accuracy and potential financial cost that immerge as concerns. HITECH Act, The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical…

Living Legend? The first time I heard Kanye West rap was with his album 808’s and Heartbreaks. The first song I remember listening to was ‘Heartless’ by Kanye West. I was just a young boy, about 10 years old or so and I was relatively new to the to the music world and did not know much. I only really knew about the young pop stars that teenagers were all crazy about and the older music that my dad always listened to. But people at first told me not to listen to Kanye West because of his music…

Values of a person are the things that they believe are important in their lives. It is a way to know how the person is, almost like “judging a book by its cover”, except the cover is their value. I did not know what my values were. It was not until today that I found out. Although my values are different from the ones when I was a kid, I believe the values I have now are the right ones. At a young age, I can remember that my values were fun and friends. The values that I had back then are not…

years, electronic health records (EHR) have been transitioning into the health care venue. The patient record is an account of a patient’s health and disease after he or she has sought medical help (Ye, 2005). Hence, this information can be stored in an electronic health record. The records may include medical history, immunizations, allergies, current medication, measurements like weight, height, and body mass index, test results and billing information. Electronic records eliminates the…

NICK All alone with my thoughts. Just last month I was on the top of the world; in an exotic country of sand, camel spiders and terrorists. Even that was better than the present; I’m left only with a head to think and my heart to beat. That fucking car bomb left me a gimp… one arm, one leg, and charred more than a steak that was left on the grill a bit too long. It wouldn’t be too bad if I had a family to support me, unfortunately I wanted to wait until I finished my tour before I found a wife.…

payment reimbursement, maintaining the bottom line will prove more and more difficult. In 2009 the government passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to support the widespread use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) as a way to save costs thru “meaningful use” (healthIT.gov, 2015). How does the EHR impact health care consolidation? The Obama administration has tried to entice physicians, hospitals and health care providers…

The career goal that I am going to talk and focus on in this report is clinical psychologist. My intended license goal is to get the doctoral degree of PhD and the Licensed Psychologists (LP/HSPP). Licensed Psychologist (LP) or Licensed Clinical Psychologist (LCP) has had 4 years of graduate training of any clinical work experience and has also passed the EPPP test that is the Examination for Professional Practice of Psychology. Besides, The Health Service Provider in Psychology, or known as the…

reforms of the PPACA. Many public and private organizations are utilizing information technology more and more every day to communicate with institutions and organizations in dealings with patients. With the new implementation of the electronic health records many organizations need to be able to serve as the backbone for the patients they are responsible for, by delivering care and payment reform models. This is very essential when health providers need to converse on steps to take or…

Informatics is a technology term in today’s health care system. It deals with the science of computer information systems. When speaking of informatics in relation to an academic field, it involves the practice of information processing and engineering of information systems. The science of informatics according to American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2015, “drives innovation that is defining future approaches to information and knowledge management in biomedical research, clinical,…