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
For example a doctor may take blood pressure and the heart rate of a patient and use it to find a treatment. Another reason why research is useful to Health and Social Care is highlighting gaps in provision. The Health and Social care needs of the community can rise and fall. Government and local authorities then use research to gather data on a local and national scale. They use this research to monitor that the services provided are acceptable.
According to Black (2011), “nursing research enhances the status of nursing as a profession by expanding nursing’s scientific knowledge base.” (pg. 268). "The information revolution that is transforming the present and shaping the future has made reading, understanding, and using nursing research as fundamental to professional practice as are knowledge of asepsis, application of the nursing process, and communication skills"(Blais, 2011). EBP is one of the many reasons that magnet hospitals are so successful. Magnet hospitals have brought improved patient care, patient satisfaction along with nursing satisfaction to the forefront by using systems that foster evidence based practice (Saver, 2006).
There are so many things that the Medical Law and Ethics course has covered that pertains to the healthcare field. This includes situations that have to do with patients, healthcare workers, laws & procedures, and patient confidentiality, which I will now tell about briefly. The Medical Law and Ethics course has covered many situations pertaining to the relationships between healthcare workers and patients. Healthcare workers must make sure that a patient understands any procedures that they may be given, and they must have the patient’s consent to give the procedure. If the consent is not given by a patient the practice, physician, or the healthcare worker can be held liable in a lawsuit.
Patients and families dealing with potential end-of-life issues is a very common problem in health care today. The Research addresses the following questions: 1. How can we assist our patients with ESRD with end-of-life issues? 2. Is the topic a priority for the organization 3.
Consumers realize medical providers are gaining a better way to manage the medical information, which will help improve the health care industry, and provide positive medical care. Electronic medical records has become a replacement for paper charting, the main reason for EMR is to provide better and accurate care, in a faster and safer manner. It also allows all providers in the same system to manage patient information faster. EMR offers many beneficial changes in how patient care is manage, and fewer errors, yes there is still glitch that has to be corrected in the system, but the overall purpose of
ILHIE allows healthcare providers and professionals to exchange electronic health information in a secure environment, which helps prevent duplicate tests and procedures, and ensure the accuracy of prescriptions and other medical orders. HIE allows for improved healthcare quality and outcomes, patient safety, and promotes greater
Next will be the discussion regarding the responsibilities of administrators and how to address employee problems. Finally, the essay will end on possible resolutions to confidentiality problems to limit future issues. Affected Population While exploring the concept of patient confidentiality, there are many individuals who are affected all across the country, particularly anyone in the health care field. The most notable are patients but physicians and health care employees run a close second mainly because they are handling patient files. Patient confidentiality includes any information such as test results, treatments, diagnoses, and personal information like name, age, and SS#s.
These duties only slightly change when a person advances in their position to health information supervisors and managers, auditor, compliance review, or clinical documentation and improvement specialists (Coeira, 2012). The increasing use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) will continue to change the job responsibilities, but staying current with technology and medical advancements along with government regulations will ease those changes (Cai, Hing, Hsiao, & Socey,
How might advances in technology and medicine enable consumers to make healthy or unhealthy choices? Provide examples. HCS/490 June 2, 2015 Conversation Starter Technology is a great tool that has become an integrated part of our lives making them more convenient, efficient, and productive. Health care, like many other industries, has undergone an explosion of innovative concepts and applications that make our lives in many ways, more efficient and convenient, and in some cases, helping us to make better, informed decisions. Some examples of technological revolutionary applications in healthcare that allow us to make better decisions, are the use of computers and other electronic devices.