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¶ … Electronic Health Records
Adoption of electronic health records, commonly referred to as EHR in short, provides a significant chance for secondary application of clinical data for clinical research purposes. For instance, because individual genetic variants do not have a strong correlation to complicated illnesses, the need for genome-wide associations studies increases if significant results are to be realized (Kohli & Tan, 2016). This paper conducts HER evaluation through four measures linked to HER on care quality, optimization of software and the work flow designs.
The Role of EHR
EHR systems are support tools for clinicians and have the potential to decrease the strain that the clinician is often subjected to in terms of memorizing and cognition. They also have the advantage of efficiency. They enhance the effectiveness of care and improve coordination. Patient centered equitable and timely provision of quality healthcare requires tools that can help to organize and provide information display that places the data of the patient in specific context. It also helps to synthesize such information with the medical evidence that is available and facilitates the decision-making by the clinician. Such organization and information display is essential in supporting clinical care effectively and drastically, reducing human error in the practice (Nohr, 2006). The dispensing of medical care occurs in environments that are highly interruptive. These environments are highly controlled, in terms of provider specific and site, decision-making modes based on rules. The EHR interface through which care teams input and retrieve information, and on many occasions, guidelines for care and evidence for medical care, should be efficient, responsive and intuitive to the varying information needs by the clinicians so as to effectively support medical practice.
EHR Stakeholders
Patients, providers and purveyors are the three basic stakeholders in EHR. Those in indirect access to EHR data such as insurers, local, state and public agencies, clinical researchers, technology vendors and accreditation agencies constitute the secondary stakeholders. Pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers and biotech research firms may benefit as they contribute to EHR integration...
It is imperative that EHRs support primary stakeholder goals. Such goals include improvement of the quality of healthcare outcomes, more coverage of healthcare service and the reduction of the cost of healthcare service (Lyke 2009). The method to apply in accomplishing these aims is a controversial matter because each of the stakeholders comes with their unique concerns and objectives that come into conflict with the goals of others. Expanded cover of healthcare service calls for higher cost in healthcare. It is important to invest in integration with the rest of the providers if patient care quality is to be improved. Yet, integration increases the costs. Providing high quality care for the population needs investment in technology so as to collect, assess or analyze and disseminate clinical results. All these combine to increase costs.
EHR Usability
The planning of implementation of EHR is important to the probability of the success of the implementation. The selection of the healthcare systems that serve the organization's needs best are important at this stage. The literature points to the need for organizations, at the onset, to review their technical requirements, organizational culture, the implementation environment and the staff perspectives at the various levels. It is also important to cultivate partnerships with external stakeholders so as to exchange and share information about patients. Smaller organizations with limited resources have entered network arrangements in order to emulate the systems by larger organizations. Nevertheless, some small organizations have found the systems used by larger organizations ineffective in their circumstances (Armijo, Mcdonnell & Werner, 2009). The aspect of usability is essential in enhancing both wider adoption and meaningful EHR usage. Utility…
References
Armijo, D., Mcdonnell, C. & Werner, K. (2009). Electronic Health Record Usability: Evaluation and Use Case Framework. AHRQ Publication No. 09(10)-0091-1-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Cresswell, K. M., Worth, A., & Sheikh, A. (2010). Actor-network theory and its role in understanding the implementation of information technology developments in healthcare. BMC Medical Informatics & Decision-Making, 10(1), 67-77. doi:10.1186/1472-6947-10-67
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Kohli, R., & Tan, S. S. (2016). ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: HOW CAN IS RESEARCHERS CONTRIBUTE TO TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE? MIS Quarterly, 40(3), 553-574.
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