IMPLANTING AN ELECTONIC HEALTH ECOD CHIP INTO U.S. CITIZENS
The purpose assignment investigate safeguards apply ethical principles health care technology.
Imagine having all your medical records with you at all times, thus reducing the issues that arise of patient safety and identification when one visits a health facility. With the use of an Electronic Health ecord (EH), this would become a reality for every U.S. Citizen. The EH is a collection of a patient's health information that is acquired over several visits to a health facility. It has all the patients' progress notes, medications, problems, laboratory data, past medical history and radiology reports. For this to be achieved, one would need to be implanted with a chip or a adio Frequency Identification Device (FID) that would contain their health information. When one visits a health facility, the health care providers would scan the chip and all the patient's health information would be…...
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Electronic Health ecord (EH)
Bearing the everyday evolution of the technology used in hospitals and the Healthcare sector in general, there is need to understand the concept of EH. This paper undertakes to divulge what EH is, the components, the advantages that it brings to the Healthcare department in general as well as the complications or loopholes that may come with it and suggestions on how this system can be used safely without exposing the patients to undue dangers and exposure of private details.
The Electronic Health ecord (EH) can be referred to as a longitudinal electronic record about the health of patients that is gathered by the number of turns that the patient visits a healthcare facility. The information that is included in the EH is vital pieces of information that can help in the handling of the patient in any part of the state. The information include medications, patient demographics,…...
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References
Conrad Artio, (2011). Advantages of Electronic Health Record System. Retrieved November 23,
Clinical Documentation and the Health Record:
The adoption of computerized records is seen as the most appropriate means of improving the quality of care while decreasing health care costs. However, the main concern is on how to design the most suitable and effective electronic health records that improves the workflow of clinicians. hile clinical documentation is integral in electronic health records and accounts for a considerable portion of physicians' time, its practices have largely been dominated with legal and billing requirements. Through the effective implementation of electronic clinical documentation, it will be possible to not only lessen the rate of medication errors but it will also help in achievement of other benefits. This method of documentation has been characterized with various concerns including whether it can be leveraged to enhance the quality of care without negative impacts on the efficiency of clinicians.
Electronic Health Records can help in lessening diagnostic errors through…...
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Schiff, Gordon D., and David W. Bates. "Can Electronic Clinical Documentation Help Prevent Diagnostic Errors?" The New England Journal of Medicine 362 (2010): 1066-069. NEJM.org. NEJM.org, 25 Mar. 2010. Web. 11 Feb. 2012. .
electronic health record-Keeping (EHs)
According to Jensen, Jensen & Brunak (2012)'s article entitled "Mining electronic health records: Towards better research applications and clinical care," scientists have a potentially invaluable source of information at their fingertips that can improve human health -- the data yielding by analyzing the electronic records of patients. "Mining of electronic health records (EHs) has the potential for establishing new patient-stratification principles and for revealing unknown disease correlation" (Jensen, Jensen & Brunak 2012). One of the most common complaints about clinical trials is their limited nature: their accuracy may be compromised by relatively small numbers, limited demographic profiles of participants, and the difficulties of longitudinal analysis, all of which EHs can potentially remedy.
The downside of using EHs is that it involves using "scattered" and "heterogeneous" data not specifically designed for the purposes of research (Jensen, Jensen & Brunak 2012). Still, using such information is still vitally important,…...
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Gardner, Elizabeth. (2013). The healthcare approach to big data. Health Data Management, 21
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Jensen, Peter B., Jensen, Peter & Brunak, Soren. (2012). Mining electronic health records:
Towards better research applications and clinical care. Nature Reviews Genetics, 13, 395-
Electronic Health ecords
Adoption of electronic health records, commonly referred to as EH 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 HE evaluation through four measures linked to HE on care quality, optimization of software and the work flow designs.
The ole of EH
EH 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…...
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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
Herndon, J. H., Hwang, R., & Bozic, K. H. (2007). Healthcare technology and technology assessment. European Spine Journal, 16(8), 1293 -- 1302. Doi.10.1007/s00586-007-0369-z
Kohli, R., & Tan, S. S. (2016). ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: HOW CAN IS RESEARCHERS CONTRIBUTE TO TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE? MIS Quarterly, 40(3), 553-574.
New Electronic Health ecords System
Nurse Facilitator preparing a team on implementation of new electronic health records system
Electronic health record systems are a compilation of health information details of the individual patients stored in digital systems (Greenhalgh, 2005). The records are shared across the different health care institutions. The sharing of this information occurs via the network connections, where the internet facilitates this connection.
An electronic health system includes information of patients, such as the identity and contact information of the patient (Greenhalgh, 2005). The system contains details about the patients visiting the healthcare facilities, whether a patient has allergies or any conditions. Information of the insurance of the person and general family health history, the immunization status, a list of medications administered, records of being hospitalized and information of any surgeries performed on the individual.
The health of our population is a very crucial area of success to the economy of…...
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References
Greenhalgh, T. (2005). Diffusion of innovations in health service organisations: A systematic literature review. Malden, Mass: Blackwell.
Lehmann, H.P. (2006). Aspects of electronic health record systems. New York: Springer.
Rogers, E.M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5th ed.). New York, NY: Free Press.
Predicting the Future of Medical Health ecords
Predict the form and function of medical health records in 2030 (provide specific example to support your response).
With the advent of digital databases used to store vast amounts of medical information, health histories, and vital statistics for millions of patients across America, a concept known on the local level as electronic medical recordkeeping (EM), and collectively forming the electronic health record (EH), the delivery of healthcare services has undergone a rapid transformation during the last two decades. The traditional clipboard and paper chart carried by physicians and nurses, which held an often indecipherable maze of pencil-etched recordings made throughout a patient's stay, has since been replaced in many modern healthcare facilities by the iPad and other handheld computer tablet devices. Banks of unwieldy filing cabinets, each storing hundreds of individual patient files, have vanished in the private practices and doctor's offices of America's healthcare…...
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References
Ford, E.W., Menachemi, N., & Phillips, M.T. (2006). Predicting the adoption of electronic health records by physicians: When will health care be paperless?. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 13(1), 106-112. Retrieved from http://jamia.bmj.com/content/13/1/106.abstract
Wall, P.T., Kudtarkar, P., Fusaro, V.A., & Pivoravov, R. (2010). Cloud computing for comparative genomics. BMC Bioinformatics, 11(259), Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/259
However, because they make billing more efficient, the majority of large urban practice groups and hospitals have already made the switch to electronic records, according to Michael R. Costa, attorney and associate at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, in oston, Mass. However, he adds, most of these organizations maintain warehouses where they store paper records that have been transcribed to electronic form. "There is resistance from some about going to a completely electronic format because there are still some questions about privacy," Costa says. "There is definitely still a place for paper-based medical records, but the focus from now on will be on making sure that information can be adequately secured" (Fiske).
Frederick Geilfuss, partner in the health law department of Foley & Lardner, in Milwaukee, Wis. says that while many larger providers have already begun the shift, he has not encountered any institutions that have made a complete transition -- an…...
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Bibliography
Ball, Marion, Carla Smith and Richard Bakalar. "Personal Health Records: Empowering Consumers." Journal of Healthcare Information Management (2007): 76-83.
Brenner, Bill. "Secure Electronic Medical Records: Fact or Fiction?" 3 March 2009. The Standard. 10 April 2009 .
Byers, Jay. "Medical Records Scanning: Convert your paper-based patient records into electronic records." December 2008. EMR Services of Canada. 9 April 2009 .
Electronic Health ecords (EH)
Description: The legislation
Over the past fifty years, Electronic Health ecords or EHs have quickly transformed just like all other technologies in computing. The pace of these transformations has seen more acceleration since the promulgation of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Health Act, or HITECH, in January 2009. This was a $30 billion attempt to transform the delivery of healthcare in the United States through greater application of EH technology. EH incentive program stipulations, and insistence on meaningful use, have largely assisted in creating more homogeneity in the primary functions of EH. This uniformity of design has been spreading across systems much more rapidly than could otherwise have been envisaged. However, technological advancements do not solely determine the direction of innovations in EH. The pace and type of change is impacted by other factors such as "Accountable Care" programs and organizations, business drivers and legal…...
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References
Freymann Fontenot, S. (2013). The Affordable Care Act and Electronic Health Care Records: Does today's technology support the vision of a paperless health care system? Physician Executive, 39(6), 72-76.
Friedman, D., Parrish, R., & Ross, D. (2013). Electronic Health Records and U.S. Public Health: Current Realities and Future Promise. American Journal of Public Health, 103(9), 1560-1567.
Menachemi, N., & Collum, T.H. (2011). Benefits and drawbacks of electronic health record systems. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 4, 47 -- 55. doi:10.2147/RMHP.S12985
The relevance of electronic health records (EHRs) cannot be overstated when it comes to the enhancement of better and safer care for patients. This is more so the case given that they enable quick access to the records of patients, as well as enhance the safe and secure sharing of medical data. However, it is important to note that the efficient implementation of EHRs could be hindered by a number of challenges. It would be prudent to highlight some of the said challenges, based on my experiences with implementing EHRs, and to develop suggestions on how the challenges could be addressed.
One of the key challenges in the implementation of electronic health records is cost. In essence, health information technology is in most cases costly not only in implementation, but also in usage. For instance, some of the key cost centers with regard to EHRs include, but they are not limited…...
large number of changes in the healthcare industry, largely due to globalization and technological improvements. Much of the change has been the result of the cost of healthcare and its continual rise. For example, in 1990 the average cost of care per person was $2,800, in 2000 it was $4,700 and then in 2010 close to $8,000. One way to reduce these costs and improve efficiency is to allow healthcare professionals to spend more time with their patients rather than filling out redundant paperwork, to increase information accuracy, and to provide a way for medical professionals in Emergency Rooms or other health care facilities to have access to critical patient information. his can be accomplished through the use of Electronic Medical Record Systems, or ERM systems.
Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases that surround the body's ability to produce and use sugars and efficiently process those sugars. Globally, there…...
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The conclusions reached seemed robust and showed that the use of EHRs, particularly in the primary care system improves both the process of care and outcomes. This suggests that organizations should immediately implement EHR systems so that decision support, patient care, timing of appointments and efficiency of recording of data and tracking medications and treatment options is actually far more efficient in both monetary and patient centered outcomes. Certainly, room for improvement exists, and as EHRs become more sophisticated, it stands to reason that efficiencies, outcomes and improvements in decision support will also become expected by stakeholders.
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Herrin, J., et al. (2012). The Effectiveness of Implementing and Electronic Health Record on Diabetes Care and Outcomes. Health Services Research, 47(4), 1522-40. doi:10.1111/j.l475-6773-2011-01370.x
Health Care Situation: Medical Error Due to Doctors' Bad Handwriting
Identify a health care news situation that affects a health care organization such as a hospital, clinic or insurance company.
I have identified the following health care news situation as the topic of my paper: "Poor Handwriting of Doctors and its implied risks for the Patient, Hospital and Medical Malpractice Insurance." Poor handwriting of physicians resulting in poor legibility of entries into patients' medical records carries very dramatic risks for all above-mentioned interest bearers. It can result in severe health danger for the patient and - in extreme situations - even cause a patient's death. Doctors' bad penmanship has long been seen a problem within organized medicine and the patient safety movement. Three American Medical Association (AMA) policies dating back to 1992, urge doctors to "improve the legibility of handwritten orders for medications" and review all orders for accuracy and legibility after…...
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Berwick, Donald M. & Winickoff, David E. (1996). The truth about doctors' handwriting: a prospective study. BMJ Vol. 313 (21-28 December 1996). 1657-1658. www.bmj.com/content/313/7072/1657.full, accessed 21 August 2011.
Bruner, Anne & Kasdan, Morton.L. Handwriting Errors: Harmful, Wasteful and Preventable.
1-4. www.kyma.org/uploads/file/.../Harmful_wasteful_and_preventable.pdfSimilar, accessed 22 August 2011.
Gallant, Al. (22 November 2009). For a secure electronic health record implementation, user authentication is key. 1-2). searchhealthit.techtarget.com/.../User-authentication-is-critical-for-pl.., accessed 24 August 2011.
" (2004, p.159) Activities have included:
(1) Development and promotion of industry-wide standards;
(2) Funding of research for investigation of the impact of IT on quality;
(3) Provision of incentives that provide encouragement of investment in IT;
(4) Giving grants to investors in IT; and (5) Development of strategies to improve the flow of information across providers. (Report to Congress, June, 2004, p.159)
Stated additionally in the Report to Congress is that there are multiple functions that must be considered when purchase IT and hundreds of applications that various vendors offer. The various IT applications are stated to be within three categories including those of:
(1) Administrative and financial systems that facilitate billing, accounting and other administrative tasks;
(2) Clinical systems that facilitate or provide input into the care process; and (3) Infrastructure that supports both the administrative and clinical applications. (Report to Congress, June 2004, p.160)
The work published by The Royal Society entitled: "Digital Healthcare: The…...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BC Medical Association. Getting IT Right: Patient Centered Information Technology [discussion paper]. Vancouver: BCMA. 2004:39-40.
Blum E. Paperless medical record not all it's cracked up to be AMNews; 17 February 2003. Online available at: www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_03/bica0217.htm
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The healthcare industry has widely adopted IT solutions in the development and maintenance of information systems for this sector. These information system applications will go a long way in boosting medical care goals by reducing costs significantly, increasing efficiency in the process and achieving a zero error. With this, client satisfaction will be realized. At the core of this is the electronic medical records (EHR) which is representative of all the health information of an individual that is available in a database and can be shared across healthcare service providers (Rouse, 2016). Also integral to this system are two components; mobile health (mHealth) and telehealth (telemedicine). Though the two are interconnected, they have a slight difference. Telehealth includes home monitoring of health conditions through desktops, laptops and other online material (Terry, 2016), while mobile health is restricted to mobile devices.
Considering the impact of electronic medical records (EHR), it is the…...
care in regards to EM when patients go from outpatient to inpatient to specialists
Effective Communication
The CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) uses the phrase 'care transition' to refer to patient transference between care settings (like hospitals, nursing facilities, home care, primary care, specialist care, or long-term patient care). Care coordination throughout the continuum of healthcare proves critical to patient treatment management, execution and assessment. Transferring health information of patients from one care location or level to another during patient transfers guarantees care continuity and fosters effective patient treatment. Direct communication between different healthcare providers is vital to smooth patient transition across healthcare settings. Partial knowledge of patient health details and absence of an EH (electronic health record) that may be accessed anywhere will restrict acute care professionals' capacity of accessing the patient's community pharmacy and ambulatory care records, especially if the professional is not the patient's primary care…...
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References
Rupal Patel Mansukhani, Mary Barna Bridgeman, Danielle Candelario, & Laurie J. Eckert. (2015). Exploring Transitional Care: Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Provider Communication and Reducing Readmissions. Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 690-694.
Sharon Silow-Carrol. (2012). Using Electronic Health Records to Improve Quality and Efficiency: The Experiences of Leading Hospitals. Commonwealth Fund.
Health informatics, also known as healthcare informatics or biomedical informatics, refers to a discipline that is a hybrid of science and engineering and involves the application of informatics fields to medicine. There are number of different topics that fall under the healthcare informatics umbrella, though the creation of electronic health records for patients is probably the most widely used application.
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