CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ISSUE NURSING ROLE Impact of an Electronic Medication Administration Record on Medication Administration Efficiency and Errors JEFFERY MCCOMAS‚ MSN‚ RN‚ CNS MICHELLE RINGEN‚DNP‚ RN‚ CNS-BC SON CHAE KIM‚ PhD‚ RN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIN: Computers‚ Informatics‚ Nursing & Vol. 32‚ No. 12‚ 589–595 & Copyright B 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins http://www.nursingcenter
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Quality Utilizing the Electronic Health Record Melissa Fuller HCA 417 John Saindon April 29‚ 2013 Improving Patient Care and Quality Utilizing the Electronic Health Record Improving patient care is a process that always has room for improvements. It is important to make sure patients receive the best quality care available. "Studies suggest that high quality patient care relies on careful documentation of each patient ’s medical history‚ health status‚ current medical
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ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS‚ HIPAA‚ AND HITECH: SHARING AND PROTECTING PATIENTS’ HEALTH INFORMATION S tep 1 S te St e 0 p1 Follow up payments and collections Preregister patients KEY TERMS p2 Establish financial responsibility St ep 3 Step 9 Generate patient statements Check in patients Review coding compliance Ste p4 Medical Billing Cycle Monitor payer adjudication St ep 8 Prepare and transmit claims Ste Check out
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Organization SWOT Analysis Tina Sampers November 21‚ 2014 CSU Global Campus HCM 560 Dr. David Milen I currently work for a local home care company‚ Angels Care Home Health. Currently‚ I am working on a project in which we are creating a new department that is responsible for the development 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
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90’s where patient’s records were written down in hardcopies and were filed accordingly to alphabetical orders in their registry‚ in the result when retrieving of data could wait up to as long as 30 days and lots of space had been taken out for storing these papers. In the 20’s they came out individual system such as EMR‚ e-CRM‚ e-pharmacy‚ etc to keep track of various data in their system although retrieving of data had greatly improved but still not effective due to records that had been found
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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
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with the use of information in health care by clinicians.[3][4] Clinical informaticians transform health care by analyzing‚ designing‚ implementing‚ and evaluating information and communication systems that enhance individual and population health outcomes‚ improve [patient] care‚ and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. Clinical informaticians use their knowledge of patient care combined with their understanding of informatics concepts‚ methods‚ and health informatics tools to: assess
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400 physicians that are on staff. By using Epic‚ physicians can access patient’s information in multiple ways. Employed physicians of the hospital can access Epic Care Ambulatory EMR‚ Community Physicians via a shared record-connecting Affiliates‚ Community Physicians via record exchange- Epic Interoperability‚ Paper-based Physicians via Web portal-Epic Care Link (Piedmont.org‚ 2014). According to Patrick Coleman‚ M.D. at Piedmont Henry they believe that “one chart for one patient”‚ will improve
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In the article‚ Strengthening Public Health and Privacy Collaboration through Public Health Records‚ it discusses how EHR’s (electronic health records) are a more likely facilitator for a more effective association between public health departments and primary care providers in maintaining a healthy community. Health risks in the community continue their shift from contagious diseases to chronic illnesses. Public health departments are increasing their focus on conditions such as diabetes and obesity
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Imagine life without your computer‚ cell phone or laptop‚ email or access to a fax machine. Some may even call the 21 century the century of technology. Our everyday living is base around something computerized. Electronic technology is used to simplify and organized complex task. Informatics is used the same way to manage data and streamline communication. This paper will define informatics in nursing‚ provide the example of informatics uses in different healthcare settings‚ pros‚ and cons‚ and
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