EHR Technology In Healthcare
QUESTION #3: What existing or new technologies do you think can deliver on these projects?
EHR Technology:
Healthcare is evolving its communication. For many decades, centuries even, healthcare has relied on paper records to keep track and communicate information. The healthcare is going through a digital evolution based on needs and settings (See Appendix I).
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), “An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an electronic version of a patients medical history, that is maintained by the provider over time, and may include all of the key administrative clinical data relevant to that persons care under a particular provider, including demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, …show more content…
In do so the healthcare data will be readily available to enhance quality of care and improve the more timely healthcare decisions for all vested parties.
According to CMS here are some examples of what the EHR can help improve:
• Reducing the incidence of medical error by improving the accuracy and clarity of medical records1.
• Making the health information available, reducing duplication of tests, reducing delays in treatment, and patients well informed to take better decisions1.
• Reducing medical error by improving the accuracy and clarity of medical records1.
EHR Benefits:
Healthcare is constantly evolving. Currently we all know healthcare reform is a national focus. Healthcare is entrenched and reliant on information and technology as a vital operational component in providing and improving healthcare communication and quality of care outcomes. Healthcare is tapping into the broad range of developed technologies via internet utilization, ‘smart’ devices (i.e. phones), laptops and tablets and even robotic devices. The emphasis is on continuity of information, its most updated accuracy and its communication from one entity as large as an National Organization or agency all the way down to the individual. This health record information will be readily available to the user instantaneously …show more content…
In California, Kaiser controls nearly every aspect of a patient’s care, from providing the M.R.I. for a diagnosis to filling a prescription at one of its pharmacies to running a hospital where the patient undergoes surgery. ‘We have all the pieces,’ said Philip Fasano, Kaiser’s chief information officer. ‘Anything a patient needs you get in the four walls of our offices,’ he said. As a result, while Kaiser can point to an analysis done by Aon Hewitt, a benefits consultant, showing that its plans are typically at least 10 percent less expensive than others, especially where they control all the providers, its costs are more like the average in places in Ohio, where it does not have its own hospitals and offer as broad a range of
EHR Technology:
Healthcare is evolving its communication. For many decades, centuries even, healthcare has relied on paper records to keep track and communicate information. The healthcare is going through a digital evolution based on needs and settings (See Appendix I).
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), “An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an electronic version of a patients medical history, that is maintained by the provider over time, and may include all of the key administrative clinical data relevant to that persons care under a particular provider, including demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, …show more content…
In do so the healthcare data will be readily available to enhance quality of care and improve the more timely healthcare decisions for all vested parties.
According to CMS here are some examples of what the EHR can help improve:
• Reducing the incidence of medical error by improving the accuracy and clarity of medical records1.
• Making the health information available, reducing duplication of tests, reducing delays in treatment, and patients well informed to take better decisions1.
• Reducing medical error by improving the accuracy and clarity of medical records1.
EHR Benefits:
Healthcare is constantly evolving. Currently we all know healthcare reform is a national focus. Healthcare is entrenched and reliant on information and technology as a vital operational component in providing and improving healthcare communication and quality of care outcomes. Healthcare is tapping into the broad range of developed technologies via internet utilization, ‘smart’ devices (i.e. phones), laptops and tablets and even robotic devices. The emphasis is on continuity of information, its most updated accuracy and its communication from one entity as large as an National Organization or agency all the way down to the individual. This health record information will be readily available to the user instantaneously …show more content…
In California, Kaiser controls nearly every aspect of a patient’s care, from providing the M.R.I. for a diagnosis to filling a prescription at one of its pharmacies to running a hospital where the patient undergoes surgery. ‘We have all the pieces,’ said Philip Fasano, Kaiser’s chief information officer. ‘Anything a patient needs you get in the four walls of our offices,’ he said. As a result, while Kaiser can point to an analysis done by Aon Hewitt, a benefits consultant, showing that its plans are typically at least 10 percent less expensive than others, especially where they control all the providers, its costs are more like the average in places in Ohio, where it does not have its own hospitals and offer as broad a range of