Hcs 490
Communicating with Electronic Medical Records
Katrina Mabone
HCS/490
May 23, 2013
Kendrick Brown Communication is the key to relating in all environments. When communication lines are broken, it makes take in jobs and personal relationship suffer. In medical environment communication is key in running hospital, nursing home and community care providers. With technology our communication has advanced because now we have electronic medical records. Electronic medical records are a way of providing the medical staff and insurance on the patient health information and insurance coverage. As stated by About.com, “This also provide the doctors away to for individual patients, access to good care becomes easier and safer when records can easily be shared. Important information -- such as blood type, prescribed drugs, medical conditions and other aspects of our medical history -- can be accounted for much more quickly.”(Torry, 2012) Doctor’s handwriting often to leads to medical variances and cause the hospital to have laws suits. Using EMR will be a short cut to the future of all hospital and medical facilities. Medical facilities will no longer need to have the space for the medical chart records to be store in rooms. Electronic Medical Records will provide simplicity, accuracy and sometimes safety. By 2013 all provider must have electronic medical records, this will provide simplicity in the facility. EMR will make easier for the receptionist or the medical assistant to find patient charts. The doctor can now log on to the EMR and go through the patient history. The will save time for the patient so they do not have wait for their medical records or the medical records can be send electronically to the next physician instead of carry your files over. They can pull them up online. The EMR are best for accuracy because as years has passed doctors handwriting was not the best. Often the patients and the medical staff could not read
Katrina Mabone
HCS/490
May 23, 2013
Kendrick Brown Communication is the key to relating in all environments. When communication lines are broken, it makes take in jobs and personal relationship suffer. In medical environment communication is key in running hospital, nursing home and community care providers. With technology our communication has advanced because now we have electronic medical records. Electronic medical records are a way of providing the medical staff and insurance on the patient health information and insurance coverage. As stated by About.com, “This also provide the doctors away to for individual patients, access to good care becomes easier and safer when records can easily be shared. Important information -- such as blood type, prescribed drugs, medical conditions and other aspects of our medical history -- can be accounted for much more quickly.”(Torry, 2012) Doctor’s handwriting often to leads to medical variances and cause the hospital to have laws suits. Using EMR will be a short cut to the future of all hospital and medical facilities. Medical facilities will no longer need to have the space for the medical chart records to be store in rooms. Electronic Medical Records will provide simplicity, accuracy and sometimes safety. By 2013 all provider must have electronic medical records, this will provide simplicity in the facility. EMR will make easier for the receptionist or the medical assistant to find patient charts. The doctor can now log on to the EMR and go through the patient history. The will save time for the patient so they do not have wait for their medical records or the medical records can be send electronically to the next physician instead of carry your files over. They can pull them up online. The EMR are best for accuracy because as years has passed doctors handwriting was not the best. Often the patients and the medical staff could not read
References: Basic Health IT. (2013). Retrieved from http://Healthitgov.gov Dolan, P. (2012, March 5). Patients recognize quality and security benefits of EMRs. . Retrieved from http://American Medical News Torrey, T. (2012, October 23). Benefits of Electronically Medical Records. . Retrieved from http://About.com