Electronic Health Records: The Role of Electronic Health Records and Health Information Exchange in the Delivery of Quality Healthcare R Arku Community College of Allegheny County Health Information Technology‚ Cohort 5 Tutor January 14‚2011 Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Quality Definition 6 Data Collection Challenges 7 Electronic Records and its influence on quality 9 Data Infrastructure – Performance Measurement Foundation 11 Quality Measurements and Data Extraction
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Over the past five decades healthcare record keeping has been evolving. In order to protect patient ’s records and encourage healthcare providers to keep up with current technology trends several federal agencies have been developed. As a result of these agency formations several laws and regulations have been put into place. The development of healthcare information technology (HIT)‚ and subsequently the rules and regulations‚ began to evolve in the 1960 ’s with the development of Medicare and
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An Electronic Document and Records System (EDRS) is a computer program (or set of programs) used to track and store records. The term is distinguished from imaging and document management systems that specialize in paper capture and document management respectively. ERS systems commonly provide specialized security and auditing functionality tailored to the needs of records managers. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has endorsed the U.S. Department of Defense standard 5015
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• Record patient history and personal information • Measure vital signs‚ such as blood pressure • Help the physician with patient examinations • Give patients injections or medications as directed by the physician and as permitted by state law • Schedule patient appointments • Prepare blood samples for laboratory tests • Enter patient information into medical records Medical assistants take and record patients’ personal information. They must be able to keep that information confidential and discuss
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Electronic Records Langemo (1995) describe records as the memory of the organization‚ the raw material for decision making‚ and the basic for legal defensibility. Meanwhile Gagnon (1987) defines records from the functional standpoint when he says all recorded information regardless of media or characteristic‚ made or received and maintained by an organization or institution in pursuance of its legal obligations or in the transaction of business. However‚ Clubb (1991) admits that it was relatively
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America’s current medical recordkeeping system? How would electronic medical records alleviate these problems? The majority of America’s current medical record keeping is paper based which creates a lot of problems like:- a. Recordkeeping became really difficult with growing numbers of patients and their visits to Medical Practitioner. There are shelves full of folders and papers in corridors. b. It makes it difficult to effective communication‚ referring and access to the records. During emergency
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Demand versus Supply Mary Ridgeway - Bailey HCS/552 February 17‚ 2014 Jayme Carrico Demand versus Supply The electronic medical record system (EMR) is a product which has proven to be very valuable. An electronic medical record is a digital version of a paper chart that contains all of a patient’s medical history from one practice. Demand is one of the concepts of economics‚ the desired quanlity of this product is referred to as demand; supply refers to the amount offered by the market. Supply
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one of the most important parts in post-operative patients’ further life and health recovery. Specific nursing intervention in the post-operative period is essential in promoting healing and improving patient’s quality of life. The purpose of this research is to analyse the effect of a nurse-directed intervention on post-operative self-care ability in breast cancer patients to find out the relationship between a nurse-directed intervention and self-care agency variables. A three-month quantitative
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Computer-based patient records is a system in which its function are becoming an essential technology for health care in part because the information management challenges were being faced by health care professionals that are increasing daily. The system stores data regarding additional medical information records in a relational database. Most published studies to date have been in the area of keeping the records safety. The database is a general setting of compiling not only the records of the patients
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