Running head: NUT1:NURSING INFORMATICS:TASK 2 NUT1:Nursing Informatics:Task 2 Western Governors University NUT1:Nursing Informatics:Task 2 Section A Computerized medical record increase quality of care in many ways. First, it is a way that your medical records could be electronically viewed from one doctor to another without the need to wait for transfer of records or the need to copy records and hand carry them to another doctor. Second, they help reduce errors in orders due to the inability to decipher handwriting. Also, if you are in the hospital, your doctor can view your test results and give orders via computer from either his home or office. ( Lee, A. C. 2013).
This complex new system has ways of looking up patient history and pharmaceutical information if a drug is not known. Physician orders were now legible and properly sent with the new computerized physician order entry (CPOE). There were issues with the start of the system to locate beds that patients were listed in and how to get labs done from the Lab tech being paged through a paging system. Patient Access Reps, Doctors, and Nurses were now able to use “work station on wheels” (WOW) where portable laptops were used to triage and register a patient rather than the use of
Communication and Information technology Melissa Liesmann HCS 320 September 19, 2011 Sue Cox Communication and Information technology When thinking about communication and information technology, not many think that they can go hand in hand. This paper is going to discuss one type of information technology that can provide information but also be used as a way of communication. By now many know what electronic medical record is or EMR. It is a computerized medical record created in an organization that delivers care such as a hospital or physician’s office. It is a way to transmit patient information electronically and allow for physicians and staff to communicate by EMR instant messaging.
A patient can go into a doctor’s office for the first time and with the advent of electronic records, the doctor is able to access the patient’s record and compile the history of the patient’s health and problems that are specific for that individual. This information also creates a database of individuals with similar illnesses that can be used as tools to build knowledge in the illness and how to treat
HS225-01 Unit 1 Assignment Amy Burton Kaplan University January 12, 2014 What kind of healthcare institutions uses the two forms? Be specific and provide examples. Healthcare institutions and providers are required to submit a paper billing document for services provided to patients. There are two forms used, the CMS-1500 is the standard form use by physicians and suppliers, the CMS-1450, also known as UB-04, used the standard form used by hospitals for both outpatient and inpatient services, third-party payers for services provided by hospitals for outpatient and inpatient care, and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) (Smith 2013). * How do the two forms differ?
The Patient Portal: What It Is and Its Benefits Misty Smith June 21, 2014 Elizabeth Sage HCIS/265C The Patient Portal: What It Is and Its Benefits Although electronic records have been around since the sixties, the mandatory adoption of them has only been in effect within the last couple of decades. Along with the electronic health record systems, new and/or advanced or enhanced technologies are bound to follow. One of these advanced technologies is called the patient portal. The patient portal allows communication between consumers and their providers and healthcare organizations to remain open between doctor’s visits. There are many benefits of utilizing a patient portal, capabilities of a patient portal, and how it affects EHR access for consumers, healthcare organizations, and their employees.
For a hospital planning to open a portal for its physicians to access their transcribed reports, lab results, and potentially other applications, an important element of technology that should be considered is: Data repository 17. Why is it important to plot a migration path to an EHR? EHR is a journey with many components 18. A physician's office does not have a variety of functionality, so they chose to purchase from one vendor for all of their systems. This is what type of acquisition strategy?
Is this saying valid? Could there be a solution to prescription fraud or abuse? Some would say yes, some would say no, but others would present you with E-prescribing. E-prescribing can be defined in many different ways. NHS Connecting for Health described it as: The utilization of electronic systems to facilitate and enhance the communication of a prescription or medicine order, aiding the choice, administration and supply of a medicine through knowledge and decision support and providing a robust audit trail for the entire medicines use process.
Technology Assessment Sarah Brown Harold Griffin HSA 520- Health Information Systems February 9, 2013 Health care information systems and use of computer technology emerged in the early 1960’s with the rise of computers and the emergence of the first computer systems being used in health care. At that time, computers were utilized mainly for patient accounting purposes and payroll tasks. These activities were processed on expensive computers identified as “mainframes”. During the 1970’s, as a result of advances in technology, information systems were operating throughout the health care community. These information systems, now driven by technology, provide an overall structure to illustrate the widespread organization of health information across computerized systems and its protected swapping of information amongst consumers, providers, government and quality control agencies, and insurance companies.
With the emergence of the electronic health (EHR) record, decision support, and expert systems, the health care arena moved to an era of information-managing technologies (Englebardt & Nelson ,2012). Expert systems are used in hospitals for interpretation of patient data through a large database. The pharmaceutical expert system helps in identifying harmful drug to drug interactions whereas laboratory expert system alerts nurses and doctors of critical lab values. An expert system in one hospital system has been credited with remotely analyzing new data, upon discovering a problem, automatically alerts the doctor by a text message eliminating the doctors' need to have access to the computer to get the results. References Englebardt, S. P., & Nelson, R. (2002).