On February 22, 2010 President Obama had signed the healthcare overhaul bill. The Obama-Biden plan provides more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don’t. And it will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and most importantly our government. Under the President Obama plan, patients will be able to make health care decisions with their doctors, instead of being blocked by insurance company bureaucrats; an official in a government department.
Implementing electronic health records improves patient care and safety. The development of the Meaningful Use Program was to initiate a nationwide exchange of health information to improve health outcomes and reduce costs. Benefits of using the electronic health records include; less paperwork for patient and providers, improved quality of care, reduce risk of medical errors, and reduced healthcare costs (Chin & Sakuda, 2012). The adoption and implementation of Meaningful Use of EHRs will improve health outcomes, increase transparency and efficiency, and ability to produce evidence based research to continue to improve patient care and safety at a national level (Chin & Sakuda, 2012). Furthermore, the development of Meaningful Use of EHRs provides a standard and modern approach to improve health information technology nationwide.
Annotated Bibliography of Medical Assistants DeAnna Butler Kaplan University HS100: Introduction to Health Science November 27, 2014 Susan Chapman, Angela Marks, and Melanie Chan (2010). Center for the Health Professions. futurehealth.ucsf.edu This article discusses the key issues as it pertains to medical assisting. Even though Medical Assistants are a critical component of small office practices there is little opportunity for a career ladder. While the Medical Assistant role continues to expand, career advancement remains limited.
4. My recommendation according to my calculations are to use option 2 as labour utilization is higher. The Pharmacy could buy an computerized prescription system so they only accept electronic prescriptions, that could cut the step of having to call the dr due to illegible handwriting. The main priorities are patient safety, lower errors, and service
The lock-in program would help lower the amount of people abusing prescription medication. The lock-in program would also ease the minds of physicians and pharmacists who are fighting a constant battle of keeping track of patients on controlled medications. Even though Americans will pay taxes on Medicaid regardless, many people would feel more at ease knowing their money wasn’t going toward funding the habits of drug abusers. Any patient that seeks assistance from Medicaid should be entered into the lock-in program to help lower the amount of controlled substance abuse, to ease the minds of doctors and pharmacists, and to ensure American tax dollars are spent more
The current alternative to the fee-for-services is the capitation arrangement. The physicians believe that the pay-for-performance is controlling how that he or she conducts the practice, but it will eliminate many expensive and unnecessary procedures (Shi & Singh, 2012).The pay-for-performance in the United States healthcare industry comes after the capitation and managed care and if managed correctly will become an asset and if not it will become a major blunder. The goal of pay-for-performance is to change patient behavior and doctors and hospitals with a rewards systems or punishment. A pay-for-performance bonus for doctors can be an increase for the general fee-for-service hospitals can receive an extra in the form of the diagnosis group-based payment (Shi & Singh,
The Electronic Medical Record, Dollars or Sense? Anne Wolfersberger Ball State University Abstract In recent history, it has become increasingly necessary, that facilities, especially inpatient acute care hospitals, implement an electronic medical record. Clinical information technology is recognized by champions of healthcare quality as a means to save lives, improve less than optimal care, and reduce costs (J Healthcare Finance 2004). There are several advantages to adopting the EMR, from reducing preventable adverse drug events to improving drug prescribing. On the patient side it has been shown that patient compliance with medication regimens as well as follow up appointments and preventative care greatly increase with the
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
The healthy people would have to pay the burden of sick people. Patients may have to wait a long time for treatments. In conclusion, I have talked about the history of health care reform. I talked about the current legislature in Congress for health care reform. I have discussed the advantage of the consumer driven health plans.
On the surface, just being able to simply send the basic patient chart to another doctor in the practice, the front desk, the nearest hospital or even a specialist is an improvement on the current paper process (Source One). However, even more important than ease of use, is the ability of the EMR software to track patient systems across multiple providers in the same practice or across hospital in an entire integrated health network (Source Seven). The physicians would have the option to view other patient charts with similar patient symptoms to a patient they were currently treating in real-time, which would allow them to see what they were ultimately diagnosed with, potentially saving the life of the patient on the table. It could essentially cut out the ‘learning curve’ of that doctor, especially if it was a set of symptoms that they were not as familiar with (Source Sixteen). Further, the EMR software is capable of alerting the doctors to trends that are taking place across the health system, making them aware of current bugs that may be floating around the area, which can help with quicker, accurate treatment of diseases and illnesses (Source