Electronic Health Record Data Analysis

Today’s world in Health care Electronic health records are being utilized in every office. With that utilization of the electronic health records from your staff and physicians and patients, the reduction in mis-diagnoses is continuing to decrease as the years pass. Some would say that EHR is a continual migration path sometimes dictated by internal organizational issues. (Latour, 2009) A CIO would need to research and evaluate every option for her hospital staff. The hospital would do great to join the newly HIR organization to extend its ability to care for patients across the continuum of care (Latour, 2005) The whole purpose of the EHR system is to provide quality care by providing care to patients ensuring accuracy, comprehensiveness, data integrity, data security, and decreased medical errors within the patients chart and clinical side.

Over the past few years, we have notice a significant change in the workflow of a healthcare organization. This change is caused by the technological advancements of Health Information Technology (HIT). One of the many technological advancements of HIT is the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Electronic health records are a patient’s paper chart in a digital format. It always contains real time information and can be easily accessible. With EHR put into act, it has the ability to electronically view and share a patient’s medical history, past and current medications, immunization dates, any diagnoses or allergies, as well as testing and lab reports. It is also used to document and store data, in addition with many more abilities. It is important to understand the purpose, application, challenges, and advantages of an electronic heath record. In order to get a greater understanding of its use, we will use a private family medicine practice as the foundation for implementing the EHR.

As the national health care system transitions to the electronic health record (EHR), it is important to recall the impetus to this reform. Prior to the implementation of the electronic health record, the national health care system encountered many problems that impeded quality patient care. There was not a standardized formal structure with the process. Consequently, it lacked communication across disciplines and among providers and

Over the previous eight years, there has been a significant investment of private and public funds to upsurge the adoption of Electronic health records (EHRs) across the nation. The extensive adoption and “meaningful use” of electronic health records is a national priority. EHRs come in various forms and can be utilized in distinct organizations, as interoperating systems in allied health care units, on a regional level, or nationwide. The benefit of utilizing an EHR depends heavily on provider’s uptake on technology. Benefits related to electronic health records are numerous and may have clinical, organizational and societal outcomes. However, challenges in implementing electronic health records has attained some attention, the implementation

Technology has enabled us to make advances in patient care, and thus increase healthy patient outcomes. Nurses are constantly adapting to new technology, and need to learn to work with their IT department to successfully maneuver their electronic system. This paper will provide details of EHR implementation, and the goals of health implementation technology.

The university of Arkanaza is preparing future nurses for using EHR and evidence-base practices by peaking the interest of health professional through training and seminars. As describe in the previous article is important for the facility providing education to future nurses to maintain a level of positivity about electronic health record. Educational organizations need to be onboard with this new technology to better serve patients efficiently. EHR, is important part of reducing errors, patient safety, and improving standards of care. As nurses its important to maintain a level of honesty and accountability. The use of EHR gives nurses the opportunity to promote proper documentaiton standdards for nurses and other care professionals. The

Health information technology is a familiar entity for most working nurses in the year of 2017. Many nurses, have lived through the transition from paper charting to online charting. This transition has not always been a progression of ease. Change is never easy. The process of paper charting with pen and paper and the use of paper medication administration records have been the routine process for many years. With the new onset of the electronic health record (EHR) many processes have become easier, safer, and more efficient while some tasks have become more complicated, confusing, and more time consuming. The goal of this paper is to describe the electronic health record system, expand on the essence

Meaningful Use is a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) program that awards incentives to eligible professionals (EP) and hospitals for using electronic health records (EHR) to improve patient care. This paper will provide an overview of the core criteria providers must follow to effectively use the EHR to qualify for the incentives and avoid penalties. The Meaningful Use criteria is implemented in three stages over five years to improve healthcare outcomes. This paper also explores the implementation of meaningful use in health information and how it has directly affected nursing, the nation’s public health, patient outcomes, and population health. Benefits of EMRs are improved patient care and coordination, quality of care and patient safety, improved efficiency and productivity, and financial savings.

Therefore, several authors share some of the same ideas as to what some of the barriers faced during the transition to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and if these barriers still exist once the transition to a full EHR system is complete. Herrick, et al., 2010, states that currently, there is no hard-core evidence to support the argument that Electronic Health Record (EHRs) and Health Information Technology is the best route for health organizations to prevent errors. In fact, the use of such technology could potentially lead to errors if information incorrectly entered in the system and Haupt, 2011, statement that smart software could help to prevent life-threatening errors better when administering medicines. Whereas, Boonstra & Broekhuis, 2010, states from a physician point a view need the understanding of the possible barriers that faced during implementation of EHRs because there a tremendous amount of literature on the obstacles but no suggestion on how to resolve these barriers have not been viewed. Barriers such as, financial on great startup and ongoing cost, technical and time to train staff and how much knowledge do they have with computer skills and psychological when support needed from vendors, etc. It suggests that once those barriers have been ironed out and a plan has set in place, then the transition from paper documentation to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) may go a lot easier for the healthcare arena physician, nurses and administrative

As patient information is readily available in the electronic record, it makes health care provider make better and quicker choices and decisions. These decisions can be based on evidence base care that is supported through data that is gathered from the patient’s records. EHR improves patient safety by providing access to information, eliminating gaps of communication among the different providers, decrease redundancy, and reduces duplication in testing. EHR has benefited health care and at the same time create positive outcomes for the nurses. Some of the positive outcomes for nurses are; comparison of previous to current data, improves documentation of the quality of care, allows recognition of the work done in measurable units by nurses, and reduces redundancy with baseline demographic data (Hebda & Czar, 2013). Data that is summarized through the EHR can evaluate performance management and look at quality issues. Along with those features, EHR can potentially increase efficiency, improved quality of care, standardize documentation, increase clinical workflow, and improved overall outcomes for

As an organization that pride itself on continuous improvement it is time to move away from an electronic medical record (EMR) to an electronic health record (EHR). The organization currently utilizes three different EMR, each for different reasons. This has and will continue to make accessing patient information difficult and inefficient as access to each database is dependent on individuals role within the organization. Overall, this will continue to influence patient care negatively. Currently, only nurses have the ability to enter and change orders, therefore, all orders must be given verbally to the nurse or be written down. Further, the system only contains information of each clinics patients and not across the

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) had developed the “Use of Dense Display of Data and Information Design Principles in Primary Care Health Care Information Technology Systems (Virginia)” project, which identified the electronic health records utilization. Key recommendations is to improve the lack of standardized practices, development of process, and share information freely. These reports include core establishments in the EHR aspect in a hospital environment. The development of criteria through these practices, explore the operation of EHRs are crucial. Plus, some basic steps in utilizing IT systems would be to deliver safe, effective, and efficient care.

As an Electronic Health Record worker it can be difficult with patients medical history, diagnoses, medication, treatment plans, immunization records, and radiology; a lot of this can be overwhelming because you have to make sure when your doing these things it takes times rushing into it may cause errors and huge mistakes when dealing with a patients health and there life itself. Things that you do can reflect on improving their quality of a patients care. For one not having enough training can be an issue maybe to much information to capture at one time.Lack of interoperability between information technologies, cost of set-up and maintenance, HIPAA violations, empty data fields, coping and pasting and end closing. It would definitely be best

Clinging our research onto (Ghazisaeedi, Mohammadzadeh, & Safdari, 2014), electronic health records is a digital version of a patients health record or chart. It is unique in its own way since information is readily available and restricted to a number of users hence maximum security. Information in it is confidential since it contains medical reports of patients which include their progress, reaction towards treatment and a record of treated illnesses. Not only does Electronic health records contain the information or date named above but also tests and results taken on patients over certain duration of time. As a result, this helps in correct procedures and work flow in health institutions.

This paper will identify the use of Electronic Health Records and how nursing plays an important role. Emerging in the early 2000’s, utilizing Electronic Health Records have quickly become a part of normal practice. An EHR could help prevent dangerous medical mistakes, decrease in medical costs, and an overall improvement in medical care. Patients are often taking multiple medications, forget to mention important procedures/diagnoses to providers, and at times fail to follow up with providers. Maintaining an EHR could help tack data, identify patients who are due for preventative screenings and visits, monitor VS, & improve overall quality of care in a practice. Nurse informaticists play an important role in the