Medical informatics

Medical technology is a vast field where advancements in technology play a crucial part in sustaining the health of patients. Fields such as Artificial Intelligence, 3-D printing, robotics, and medical imaging have contributed to improving the health of many people. In the medical field, the dependence of medical technology has allowed doctors to improve their practice by making more accurate diagnoses, which reduces mortality rate. Healthcare practitioners, as a result of these innovations,…

The Call for Semantic Interoperability: The current lack of interoperability between EHR’s and poorly designed electronic systems can exacerbate and compromise patient safety, undermine quality and care outcomes, and increase in costs. It also hinders progress toward achieving patient centric care in terms of care processes and technologies used face significant obstacles accessing data, validating solutions, integrating into highly configured environments, and scaling implementations across…

Alberta “VITALCONNECT” Health Program Q 1: Outline the communication gaps in the patient information exchange that are attributed to Greg’s death? After investigation of Greg Price’s death case, the Health Quality Council of Alberta’s (HQCA) established a report under the name of “Continuity of Patient Care Study” that mainly shows the issues in Health Information System (HIS). There were many communication gaps in the continuity of Greg’s care that represents by the following points: I.…

Electronic Medical Record Conversion Issues Health records date back to the Ancient Greeks and Astrologers who charted observations, symptoms and outcomes. Today, we are documenting health information in either a paper chart or a digital version of a patient’s chart in a computer called an electronic health record. According to Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, “an electronic health record (EHR) is defined as an electronic version of a patient’s medical history, that is maintained by…

An advantage of the electronic health record is the allowance of patient information to be accessed anywhere, communicated to all physicians involved in a patients care. In a case study Dr. Holly miller stated “Patients are particularly vulnerable when they are transitioning across care environments, such as being referred from their primary care provider to a specialist for a consultation, or at the time of discharge from the hospital when the patient returns back to the care of the patient’s…

Management Corporation. Like you, we believe EMR’s has the ability to offer many significant benefits to the future of health care. The HER ssystem has been known to make health care more efficient and improve the quality of care by making patients’ medical history easily accessible to all who treat them. Many health professionals have discovered that the EHR system has several advantages over paper records. Although the benefits are clear, so are the needs for improvements. This system has…

view on the patient's care. EHR let other health care providers to share information about the patient care such as lab and specialists (Garrett & Sediman, 2011). Electronic Medical Record (EMR) are very similar to EMR, however, it is digital version of the paper charts in the clinician's office. EMR contains the medical and treatment history of the patients in one practice. With EMR, it allow clinicans to tract date over time, easily identify which patients are due for screening and checkup,…

Blog Keywords: Pediatric Medical Billing The Importance of Cloud-Based Medical Billing Solutions With every business activity managed better and more efficiently on the cloud, the healthcare sector is certainly no exception. As such, certain healthcare management service providers have emerged over the time, helping the different organizations serve the patients better in terms of pediatric medical billing, placement of claims as so on. If you are associated with a healthcare organization are…

Care IT Systems Today, the use of computers and information technology is fundamental in increasing the proficiency and performance of health care organizations around the world. This increases the speed and accuracy of collecting the patient’s medical history information. Also, these methods help in forming and storing the patient information in ways that can be tracked. The technological capability to lock access to patient information by using encryption and passwords guarantees that only…

Healthcare facilities use a variety of methods to safeguard patient information from theft. Every facility implements the system that adapt to their necessities, they take into consideration that they have to protect the paper and electronic information. Some of the security measures that can be implemented are: 1. Increase administrative control: this step can be achieved by updating the security policies and procedures; training employees in privacy and security; and keep updated background…