Future Trends and Effects of EHR Angelene Sears HCIS/265 September 28, 2014 Lucinda Shipley Future Trends and Effects of EHR Electronic health records are enhancing patient overall health care across the country today. We have a system that allows doctors, hospitals, and all health care providers to communicate securely and warehouse patient records. So if you’re at home or in another state, get ill or wounded, the information about your medical state is available to medical providers attending you. Hospitals and physician that utilize digital systems see many benefits of EHR’s over paper records, and this exchange of health information means providing better quality of patient care. New technologies are continuously in advancement
This will make patient records, test results, which practice guidelines make records accessible from the exam room. This allows providers the ability to consult with each other electronically and able to communicate a treatment plan. The internet has shifted toward better patient care, allowing patients to gather information on health related subjects on themselves. It allows them to communicate with their health care providers, health administrators, and other patients electronically and even receive care at home. This allows the patient to have a more active say in their health care and the tools to help improve their own health situation.
The benefits of IT for work tasks is the ease of communication, many attendees at a meeting may be invited quickly and in one go rather than individually calling each person. Quotes maybe easily sent via email to prospective customers, everyone who works for the business access notes and information on customers via databases. The internet can be used to quickly find information. Section 2 – Understand how to manage electronic and paper-based information 1. Explain the purpose of agreeing objectives and deadlines when researching information.
I choose the articles for Cerner, for the fact that my employer recently bought a contract with the company. I have grown accustomed to the changes, and know the pros and cons of the software. “Cerner is an integrated database that provides a comprehensive set capabilities allowing health care to electronically store, capture and access patient health information in both acute and ambulatory care setting.” (www.medicalrecords.com Feb. 2012). With this system our facility is able to keep up with the patients’ history even if they were not seen for years. This complex new system has ways of looking up patient history and pharmaceutical information if a drug is not known.
There are several advantages that have been discussed in the paper. One is more time with patients and less time gathering information. Two is that a physician can access patient information at a touch of a few key strokes instead of flipping through a file folder. Three the communication between a medical staffs can be done by using the instant messaging system that comes associated with EMRs, so a response is done faster than tracking someone
It is user friendly, free, and typical visitors use the site to search symptoms and learn about medical conditions. Heather can qualitatively argue that visitors to the MedNet.com website are “in crisis” mode and therefore more disposed to purchase products immediately. They proactively click on impressions for product information. Any visitor to MedNet is a serious prospect to Windham Pharmaceuticals and a likely sale. Moreover, unlike specific interest websites MedNet does not have advertising boundaries; therefore, it can advertise Windham Pharmaceuticals’ entire portfolio of products.
has progressively been implemented into many aspects of the healthcare systems such as family practice, ambulatory surgery centers, pediatrics, urgent cares, and hospitals. The electronic health record has more benefits than problems, yet there is resistance to a national electronic health record. The benefits to electronic health records are to improve “the efficiency of health care and the speed of communication, access to up-to-date information about patients, and the improvements in the quality of care such as the prevention of medical errors” (Benefits and problems of electronic information exchange as perceived by health care professionals: an interview study, 2011, p.4). The E.H.R. has been used to provide pertinent patient information to family physicians from cardiologists, physical therapists, emergency rooms and hospitals and vice versa.
Another advantage is the accessibility of the records. Information can be accessed by the physicians remotely. It is easier to send electronic records from one doctor’s office to another. This is useful when a patient has to visit more than physician in the same hospital; one won’t have to wait long for their records to be transferred’ Electronic Health Records reduces the likelihood of errors. This is because there would be no illegible handwritings or spelling mistakes.
John Providence Health System has many resources for patients. Sometimes patients want to explore other resources of care. Patients believe that once he or she can acquire more knowledge on certain conditions, the better educated him or her become. Although modern technology has allowed an enormous amount of online resources, people can explore the Internet and find solutions and answers to almost anything, including medical advice. St. John Providence website has many links in which patients and family members can find information on medical advice, medical procedures, and medical terminology.
September 06, 2012 Discourse Communities Just as the times have changed so have the ways in which we communicate with one another. Now and days we can communicate with several people at once in many different ways thanks to the advancements in technology. We can send and read e mails, texts messages, and even update our status on our favorite social networks in seconds. Which makes communicating information with in discourse communities a lot easier. My first discourse community is my fraternity.