Electronic Medical Records Making healthcare affordable and accessible to all Americans is one of the top priorities of the federal government. In order “to reach this goal‚ the federal government and many medical professionals strongly advocate the implementation of electronic health care records” (Steward‚ 2005). What is an electronic medical record (EMR)? An electronic medical record (EMR) is a computerized medical record created in an organization that delivers care‚ such as a hospital or physician’s
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Electronic Medical Record Assessment [Your Name] In today’s society we are constantly growing and changing in the U.S. health care industry. It is clear that you cannot utilize all the paper records in a format that will benefit and capable of supplying primary care providers with all the information needed in a way that will be employed. We have a growing emphasis on providing the right information to the right person anywhere at any time. The world is globally unified‚ the U.S. health
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student will discuss the national mandate of electronic health records (EHR)‚ and how this mandate is being implemented at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Also discussed are how Cleveland Clinic is progressing to achieve EHR‚ and what challenges this brings to patient confidentiality and self-determination. Lastly this student will provide information on the benefits of EHR in healthcare. According to Gunter & Terry (2005)‚ “The electronic health record (EHR) is an evolving concept defined as a
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review: The Adoption of Electronic Health Records. The implementation of 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
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Week 8 - APA Electronic Medical Records Assignment Posted: Sun 04/08/2012 11:49 AM ‚ by: Heather Dupuis ( hdupuis@email.phoenix.edu ) Previous | Next Reply View/Print Flag Message Mark as unread Hello Everyone‚ Per the Syllabus‚ the Electronic Medical Records assignment due on Day 7‚ Sunday April 15 must be written in APA format. Please review the APA Example Paper and The Writing Style Handbook I provided to you in Week 1 to assist you in completing this APA paper.
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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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seen a change in medical record keeping since I started more than 15 years ago. Every patient would have a paper chart. This would include there personal information‚ which included social security number and medical history. Physicians would document there progress notes and any orders for tests or medications. The nurses would document when they gave medication to there patients. This process was very time consuming and sometimes very hard to read. With electronic medical records this process has
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Abstract Electronic health records (EHR) is more and more being utilized in organizations offering healthcare to enhance the quality and safety of care. Understanding the advantages and disadvantaging of EHR is essential in the nursing profession as nurses would learn its strengths and weaknesses. This would help the nursing profession know how to deal with the weak areas of the system. The topic on advantages and disadvantages of EHR has been widely researched on with different researchers coming
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ELECTRONIC RECORD The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act also known as the HITECH Act is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) which contains incentives related to health care information technology in general and contains specific incentives designed to accelerate the adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems among providers. Because this legislation anticipates a massive expansion in the
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The Beginning: Paper Trail SlumThe medical and healthcare field is characterized with the cumbersome practice of obtaining and maintaining extensive documentation of patient information. Medical staff‚ physicians and healthcare practitioners are legally responsible to maintain a comprehensive‚ efficient as well as effective way to collect‚ maintain and archive patient information. Traditionally‚ this process of information collection and maintenance was accomplished manually resulting in an endless
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