Introduction to EMR at New York Hospital How going electronic affects nursing staff and patient care WGU NTU1 Task #1 The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and New York Hospital • Use of computers at NYH is not a new concept – Currently, access to lab results, some patient orders and nursing assessments can be found online – Additionally , we access many scanned documents online to support patient care – But is this an EMR? No, not quite! The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and New York Hospital • Implementation of a true electronic medical record is a cultural and conceptual shift to patient care order entry, clinical documentation, organization and access to patient care data as well as security, storage of data as opportunity to provide excellence in patient care. The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and New York Hospital • Access to an individual’s patient care, financial and demographic data and use of analytical tools designed to collate information from all patient data collected across the continuum will be an important tool for strategic future planning, research opportunities and fiscal accountability as well as complying with new federal, state and regulatory requirements. • Computers and numbers go hand in hand.
What the Heck has Internet Done to Our Brains? Section I: Introduction and Context Imagine going back in time and staying there permanently. Out of all the things that will be missed, there is no doubt that the one thing would be technology. The Shallows: What Internet is Doing to Our Brains is nonfiction book written by Nicholas Carr who asserts and cautions the effects that internet has on everyone to this day and even more so in the future. People nowadays can communicate with people all around the world using many different types of communications such as social networking sites, cell phones, emails, etc.
At times, this documentation happened hours later when time permitted. The vitals were hard to take in some cases and errors were not uncommon. These stats are a tool used to communicate patient deterioration to healthcare providers and sadly it also was not uncommon for clinical decisions regarding a patients care to be made using outdated vitals (Zimmerman, E., 2012). With today’s technology, patient care can be a lot more effective. The use of smart phones and broadband-enabled devises has allowed patients to do their own monitoring of vital signs and body functions and upload them to their medical provider’s clinical servers (Meingast, M./ Roosta, T./Sastry, S., 2006).
The quality of the consumer health information on the Internet is an important issue among health providers. “Both clinicians and patients can benefit from the improvements in timeliness through the use of Internet-based communication (i.e., e-visits, telemedicine) and immediate access to automated clinical information, diagnostic tests, and treatment results” (Briere, 2001, p. 164). In this paper, I will discuss the future trends in health care and point out issues on how the Internet and other form of electronic
Personalize medicine has changed the concepts of patient care. Personalize medicine has began to revolutionized the healthcare field; in treatment, managing healthcare issues and treating diseases. Each patient’s needs are different and their treatment is based on individual needs. According to www coriell.org, Personalized medicine Personalized medicine is determined by many factors: the genetics we inherit; our innate personal traits of race, age and gender; our individual behavior; our family and community networks; and at the macro level, our economic, cultural, and environmental conditions.1 When most people think of personalized medicine, they assume it is everyday prescriptions received from family doctors; however, personalized medicine deals with gathering ones genetic information and combining that information with clinical data to modify drugs and doses to meet the patients’ needs. There is a variety of benefits, drawbacks and limitations in the use of personalized medicine.
We Can But Should We? Dixie Hagen Chamberlain College of Nursing As healthcare embraces technology to improve patient care outcomes, streamline operations, and lower costs, are the technology’s that makes life simpler. But who will benefit from this new technology and at what cost? Like the saying goes, “We Can But Should We?” Quick Response (QR) codes are the new rage today, they are black-and-white square boxes with maze like lines that resemble a digital bacteria or some computer life form (Whaley, 2012). These two-dimensional codes have the ability to store 14 types of data, and when scanned will deliver the stored information to that person’s mobile device.
However, there are cases in which these mistakes go unnoticed and surgical objects are accidentally left behind in patients. More hospitals should adopt the use of preventative measures to decrease these mistakes. The most common items reportedly being left behind in patients are surgical sponges, accounting for “about two-thirds of all retained items” (NYtimes). Recent technology and newer methods have made it easier to reduce the number of cases where surgical sponges are forgotten in patients with a strategy called NoThing Left Behind. NoThing Left Behind is “a national surgical patient safety effort to prevent retained surgical items left in patents” (Harrison Medical Center).
Electronic Medical Records: Cost, Quality, and Privacy Using paper charts in the health care field is becoming a thing of the past. Fewer and fewer health care providers are still using the dated system. In many offices you will find a computer in each exam room or a health care worker carrying around a laptop to chart with. The biggest questions with electronic medical records are the cost effectiveness, the quality of care they help provide, and if they protect the patient’s privacy as well as other options. Lowering health care costs while providing increased quality of care and protecting patients’ privacy is the federal government’s goal with the use of the electronic medical record.
For purposes of this research paper I will focus on a surgical robot called the daVanci surgical robot that both electrical and biomedical engineers team up to design. The daVanci robots are surgical robots that allow doctors to perform surgical operations inside the patients with minimal external incisions. They feature a screen that the doctors look into and graspers that the doctors operate. The combinations of these movements moves the surgical arms and allows the doctors to operate the robot. Electrical Engineers are needed for the designing of these robots as the robots have a complex circuitry and wiring of
Electronic Medical Records 1 Running Head: EMR’S AND NURSING EFFICIENCY Electronic Medical Records and Nursing Efficiency Fatuma Abdullahi, Phuong Doan, Cheryl Edwards, June Kim, and Lori Thompson July 22, 2009 HSM 5003 Management of Health Service Organizations Texas Woman’s University Electronic Medical Records 2 Introduction Across our nation healthcare organizations are beginning to implement electronic medical records. Electronic medical records (EMRs) are computerized medical records that are taking the place of paper medical records, which have been the standard of clinical documentation for centuries. The advantages of an EMR are many, such as the consolidation of patient medical information into a single record across the healthcare continuum (Robles, 2009). Further, evidence demonstrates that EMRs improve the quality of patient care by improving legibility, enhancing communication among caregivers, decreasing medication errors and improving clinical work flows as well as billing processes (Robles, 2009). In addition to improving quality, evidence also supports that EMRs save physicians time and reduce costs for ambulatory practices (O’Neill, 2007).