Paper-Based Versus Electronic Medical Record Keeping For many years‚ physicians’ offices documented all data in paper-based medical charts. Now‚ the physician or clinician records the medical data into a computer. Information stored in this manner is known as an electronic-based medical record or EMR. By definition‚ an EMR is a computerized record of the important health information regarding a patient including the care of that individual and the progress of that patient’s condition
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Kaplan University Going Paperless: Electronic Medical Records versus Paper Medical Records “Is it time to make the switch?” Carletta Howard Kaplan University Abstract Making the switch to an electronic medical records system will help to bring forth health care advances with the systems data quality and availability. This research study uses focus groups and surveys to get the opinions of different health care providers and some patients on what they think EMR will do for the health care
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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 similarities that I found for the organizations of patient files are that most of the paper files between the small and medium facilities are handled the same way. With the demographics and administrative filed on the left and medical on the right. Such as reports of labs‚ patient progress notes‚ prescription documentation‚ and any miscellaneous reports. Some of the small and medium facilities seem to use this filing method. This filing works well in a small to medium facility because there are
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Chapter 3 – Medical Record History of Present Illness The patient is a 61 year old female. The patient is complaining that they feel weak‚ their urine is dark‚ nausea‚ pain in the abdomen. Past Medical History Mrs. Carter has suffered from seizures since she was 14 years old. She has been taking Dilantin to help keep her seizures under control and to a minimum. Clear history otherwise. Physical Examination Temperature was 99.8 Pulse was 83 Blood Pressure was 120/84 Abdomen area was swollen
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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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Electronic Health Records The electronic health records fits seamlessly with a central cost-saving of health care reform: to shift U.S. health care from an expensive‚ pay-per-service system based on quantity to one that emphasizes quality. The goal now is to have medical payments reward good care -- in a way that’s difficult to do with paper records. "You really can’t have accountable care without electronic records‚" says Judy Hanover‚ a research director for IDC Health Insights‚ a health care
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1. Explain how an organization can ensure the quality of data contained in its electronic health record (EHR) information system. (20 points) Electronic documentation tools offer many features designed to increase both the quality and the utility of clinical documentation‚ enhancing communication between all healthcare providers. Silow-Carroll‚ S.‚ Edwards‚ J.‚ Rodin‚ D.‚ (2012)‚ stated that one of the key driver in the implementation of EHR is to improve health care quality‚ and patient safety
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What are the problems in this case? The problem is financial mismanagement whereby there is higher consumption. This is very an understandable because there have been 30% more consumed in office supplies‚ a 25% increase in staff and 23% of the purchased medical supplies discarded for their expiration. What are the possible causes and contributing factors of each problem? The cause of the problem is the increase in the staff expenses‚ pharmacy management and office supplies. I think the factors include
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Historically‚ the only means available to record health information were paper and pen‚ today the industry has multiple options. This type of information has been known to be transmitted between practitioners and facilities via personal messenger‚ phone‚ or interdepartmental mail. There are numerous options of transmittal but most of the above mentioned methods were fraught with errors and time consuming. Medical information recorded in paper format makes tasks difficult‚ provides opportunities
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