Kaiser Permanente Risk Management Executive Summary Organization Description Kaiser Permanente (KP) is the nation’s largest integrated health care delivery system. KP serves nine states and over nine million members‚ with an annual operating revenue in 2013 of 53.1 billion. KP is a leader in quality improvement efforts in the health care industry through participation in studies performed by the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA)‚ The Joint Commission (TJC) accreditations‚ and the
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MEDIC A L GROUP M A N AGEMENT A SSO CIATION® Electronic Health Records: Status‚ Needs and Lessons 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data Snapshot of an Infrastructure under Construction Research funded by PNC Bank Electronic Health Records: Status‚ Needs and Lessons – 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data Snapshot of an Infrastructure under Construction Medical Group Management Association 104 Inverness Terrace East Englewood‚ CO 80112 877.275.6462 Mgma.com
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medical records (EHRs). The healthcare field is a team effort and when everyone has the patient’s medical information it helps things go smoother. EHRs are designed to help improve the quality and safety of patient care. The promise of fully realized EHRs is to have a record that includes a patient’s health information: a record that is up-to-date‚ complete‚ and accurate. This puts providers in a better position to work with their patients to make good decisions. Providers who use EHRs report tangible
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full extent of their licensure and education‚ largely due to the overhaul of the health care system with the introduction of the ACA (IOM‚ 2010). In addition‚ the rapidly evolving health care system to include adoption of electronic health records (EHRs)‚ computerized provider order entry (CPOE)‚ electronic medication administration (eMAR)‚ and bar code medication administration (BCMA)‚ to name a few. This paper will focus specifically on the nursing practice‚ nursing education‚ and nursing workforce
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Clinical Health) which gas made more than $15.5 billion available to the hospitals as well as to the health care professionals as the research has shown that “A recent study of 180‚000 outpatients and 800 clinicians in communities that had adopted EHRs from multiple vendors found that‚ over a multi-year period‚ the overall
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and implementation of the electronic health record (EHR). Due to the size of the organization and the number of clients‚ the development of the EHR is a daunting and time consuming task. For these reasons‚ the EHR project runs like a strategic business unit (SBU). As an SBU‚ the project runs almost completely separate from the company drawing on three goals as its driving force: 1. Create a unified and cohesive system that incorporates
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how they are secured‚ how security is enforced‚ and what the consequences of security breaches are. It is important for the purpose of clarity to distinguish the difference between electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic health records (EHR). Electronic medical records are an electronic composition of an individual’s medical history including such components as procedures‚ past diseases‚ diagnosis‚ medications‚ doctor’s names‚ and allergies. An electronic health record is an electronic
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savings?”‚ the article focuses on patient privacy and how electronic health records (EHRs) can help the health care industry save billions of dollars‚ but has considerable risks involved in the U.S that must be taken into account before they are fully implemented in U.S. health care. This paper will describe the patient privacy issues brought up in the article‚ the argument and facts that support the use of EHRs as a solution to the issue but what changes are needed‚ ethical and legal issues of the
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electronic health records (EHR) in the healthcare industry has been an evolving concept throughout the healthcare ecosystem for some time. The term EHR is often used interchangeably with EPR (electronic patient record) and EMR (electronic medical record). Even though the terms are mostly used to describe the same thing‚ the differences between them can be defined. EMR is defined as the patient record created in hospitals and ambulatory environments. EMR serves as a data source for EHR while an EPR is generally
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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‚ vital signs‚ past medical history‚ immunizations‚ laboratory data and radiology reports The EHR automates access to information and has the potential to streamline the clinician’s workflow. The EHR also has
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