Medical Records and the Implementation of Health Informatics
Introduction
Health Informatics or Medical Informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. Health Informatics offers resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. The applicable areas would be nursing, clinical care, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, and bio medical research.
Electronic health information systems are the science that addresses how to use information to improve health care. This paper will present the concept of electronic health records (EHRs) and the current developments and analysis of the transition and implementation of health informatics in health care organizations in the United States and globally.
The analysis contains a brief overview of the affects of physicians and their practices in relation to their adaptation to EHRs. This paper addresses the issue of the security of EHRs, and the efficiency and costs of electronic prescribing.
Clarification of Electronic Medical Records and Electronic Health Records
Electronic Medical Records and Electronic Health Records are two different concepts.
The data in the EMR is the legal record of what happened to the patient during their encounter at the care delivery organization (CDO) and owned by the CDO. The EHR environment relies on functional EMRs that allow care delivery organizations to exchange data/information with other CDOs or stakeholders within the community, regionally, or nationally (Davis & Garets, 2006).
The EHR’s are composed of other records and documents owned by the patient, and allow patient access within a community, region, state or national.
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In the 2005 EMR adoption model, there are seven stages towards the completion transition. Many U.S. hospitals have not reached stage 1 or 2 of the EMR Adoption Model. Without the effective and efficiently implementation of the stages of the EMR Adoption
Health Informatics or Medical Informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. Health Informatics offers resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. The applicable areas would be nursing, clinical care, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, and bio medical research.
Electronic health information systems are the science that addresses how to use information to improve health care. This paper will present the concept of electronic health records (EHRs) and the current developments and analysis of the transition and implementation of health informatics in health care organizations in the United States and globally.
The analysis contains a brief overview of the affects of physicians and their practices in relation to their adaptation to EHRs. This paper addresses the issue of the security of EHRs, and the efficiency and costs of electronic prescribing.
Clarification of Electronic Medical Records and Electronic Health Records
Electronic Medical Records and Electronic Health Records are two different concepts.
The data in the EMR is the legal record of what happened to the patient during their encounter at the care delivery organization (CDO) and owned by the CDO. The EHR environment relies on functional EMRs that allow care delivery organizations to exchange data/information with other CDOs or stakeholders within the community, regionally, or nationally (Davis & Garets, 2006).
The EHR’s are composed of other records and documents owned by the patient, and allow patient access within a community, region, state or national.
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In the 2005 EMR adoption model, there are seven stages towards the completion transition. Many U.S. hospitals have not reached stage 1 or 2 of the EMR Adoption Model. Without the effective and efficiently implementation of the stages of the EMR Adoption
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