Bacon County Health Care Outline

E-health combines technology with health care. The use of this new and emerging technology allows the delivery of health care to take the form of e-visits, online patient charting, patient access to personal medical records and remote monitoring of vital health monitoring. The use of e-health in health care system with the support of federal guidelines and regulations will help improve the quality, efficiency, and access to

Primary care practioners must develop collaborative teams, that have practioners in the hospitals, clinics, and home. The field of informatics will be utilized to teach practioners data sharing, telemedicine, patient monitoring, patient triggers at point of service, and research data on patient outcomes and maintainence. With the addition of millions of people who will now have medical insurance, the need for primary care providers has increased the demand for APN’s in all areas. We will need additional educators and professors to teach at universities to educate more APN’s. The information technology that is required for the advanced tracking of medical information has created a great demand for APN’s in Informatics. “ telehealth is expected to reach 1.8 million Americans annually by 2017, according to the market research firm InMedica,

The high cost of healthcare continues to rise and many in the United States are optimistic for health information technology to reduce and improve our current situation. Health IT encompasses a broad array of new technologies designed to manage and share health-related information. When properly implemented, these systems can help coordinate patient care, reduce medical errors, and improve administrative efficiency. Therefore, implementing a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) will help the National Health Information Network (NHIN) achieve their goals in improving quality of care for the citizens of the United States. Thus, in order for the health IT to deliver on its promise, several obstacles must be overcome.

Background: The Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) identified five goals for adopting health information technology (HIT) into the current health care systems that would significantly improve healthcare in America. (Abdelhak, Grostick, & Hanken, 2012, p. 82) These goals will help improve the quality of care within the federal health system by reducing medical errors, cost, and duplication of workload.

Changes in current health care practices, the aging baby-boomer population, and the higher acuity of patients has created a need for change and adaptability with the health care industry. Kaiser is an organization who has shown the ability to continuously change in order to reduce costs while improving efficient quality patient care. The investment on information technology (IT) advancements such as the implantation of electronic health records (EHRs) and use of a patient portal system is one way the organization has shown readiness to meet the health care needs of patients. KP in collaboration with five other healthcare organizations created a Care Connectivity Consortium, enabling secure electronic retrieval of current

To start, structured data capture (SDC) initiatives should be utilized in order to leverage existing EHR interoperability standards. SDC seeks to identify how interoperability technology can be used to access a template containing common data elements, populate the template with the correct common data elements from existing EHR data, and then store the template or transmit it elsewhere. Using this framework will give healthcare professionals a standard way to collect data and populate the templates, thus creating a way to access, display, and store the data. It is also important for hospitals to ensure that they are working to meet meaningful use requirements, which will help the organization to be more prepared and educated about interoperability and related issues. The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology states that the ultimate goal is to have an interoperability system in place by 2024, one that puts “the person at the center of [the] system that can continuously improve care, public health and science through real-time data access.” In order for the goal to be achieved, however, specific actions need to be taken. It is not enough to simply state what needs to be done, but rather it is the combination of the talk and actions that will make the end-goal

“Athenahealth is a Watertown, Massachusetts-based developer of Web-based electronic health record (EHR), electronic medical billing and medical practice management software for small and medium-sized physician’s offices.”(athenahealth, 2009-2016). With all those programs and software’s included the physician and associates can accomplish sending and receiving information from one person to another. It can be used through a large wide selection of physicians as well with patient’s records.

The ARRA includes the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which pursues to improve American Healthcare and patient care through an extraordinary investment in Healthcare IT (HIT). The requirements of the HITECH Act are precisely designed to work jointly to provide the necessary assistance and technical operation to providers, enable grammatical relation and organization within and among states, establish connectivity in case of emergencies, and see to it the workforce is properly trained and equipped to be meaningful users of certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs). These computer software products are designed collaboratively to intensify the footing for every American to profit from an electronic health record (EHR) as part of a modernized, interrelated, and vastly improved grouping of care delivery.

Several advancements have been made in healthcare technology, from the highly-awaited ICD-10 coding to HIE and general interoperability projects. California has been a pioneer in leading efforts in this space, and is home to some of the best hospitals in the nation. As a consultant, I had the opportunity to work with one such innovative organization, Sutter Health, that serves over 100 Northern California communities.

The health information system being selected is QuaDramed and the hypothetical health care organization selected is rural hospital. QuaDraMed EHR solution provides the accurate, reliable foundation organizations need to link and manage patient records across disparate Information technology (IT) systems in rural hospital. By leveraging the powerful capabilities of QuaDramed’s EHR technology and PatientSecure, organizations can better patient safety and satisfaction, protect patients from medical identity theft, and minimize the risk of insurance card fraud. Organizations can also reduce duplicate healthcare records and overlays in the EHR leading to immediate cost and time saving (QuadraMed Corporation, 2015).

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) and associated technologies have had a dramatic impact on the UC Davis Health System (UCDHS). UCDHS has realized significant returns on the clinical technology investment in the form of enhanced revenues and reduced costs. The new perspective and approaches enabled by UCDHS‟ EHR are driving improvements in clinical quality and cost reduction. There is no question that these new tools will enable dramatic improvements in care delivery and care quality that were simply not possible in the legacy fragmented paper-based care processes. UCDHS had a clear goal to deploy the EHR across all venues of care (inpatient, emergency department, ambulatory clinics, home health, and Telehealth encounters). Other key goals included secondary use of clinical content, leveraging EHR data to support transitions of care, and to provide better access to clinical data for

According to the research found, Twiggs County appears to be the perfect county for retirement. Without having many people, there is a lot of open roads and peaceful canvases upon which one can reflect on their lives. It has senior citizen centers and rehabilitation centers located within the county. A downside to this small population is that some may not believe that Twiggs needs any fixing. However, healthcare wise, significant improvement is needed. Given the large percentage of those over the age of 40, chronic disease care is growing to be a major source of healthcare consumer spending. Twiggs has a higher rate of deaths from high blood pressure, stroke, and various respiratory conditions than both the state and country. This may significantly related to how the male life expectancy is approximately 4 years younger than GA, according to County Health Rankings.

Georgia Medical Center has ten physicians clinics that can benefit from the patient portal. Now that the organization has transitioned to Cerner powercharts electronic medical records, the organization can now focus on implementing Cerner patient portal and its benefits. “A patient portal is a secure website that gives patients convenient 24 hour access to personal health information from anywhere with an internet connection” (“What is patient portal?” n.d.) The doctor's clinics of GA Medical Center have 500 to 600 patients seen by the providers for various conditions. Patient portal will be a patient friendly tool designed to help the patients manage their own records and be able to communicate with their provider (Goldzweing, 2013).

Health Information Exchange is the electronic movement of healthcare information amongst organizations according to the national standards. HIE as it is widely known, serves the purpose of providing a safe, timely, and efficient way of accessing or retrieving patient clinical data. Health Information Exchange allows for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other vital healthcare professionals to have appropriate access and securely share vital medical information regarding patient care. Health Information Exchange has been in efforts of developing for over 20 years in the United States. In 1990 the Community Health Management Information Systems (CHMIS) program was formed by the Hartford Foundation to foster a development of a centralized data repository in seven different geographically defined communities. Many of the communities struggled in securing a cost-effective technology with interoperable data sources and gaining political support. In the mid-1990s a similar initiative began known as the Community Health Information Networks (CHINs) with the intention of sharing data between providers in a more cost-effective manner. In 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research Health Information Technology Portfolio was funded $166 million in grants and contracts to improve the quality and safety to support more patient-centered care. This was the beginning of the progress we have seen in HIE today. Health Information Exchange devolvement serves the purpose of improving

Over the past decade, virtually every major industry invested heavily in computerization. Relative to a decade ago, today more Americans buy airline tickets and check in to flights online, purchase goods on the Web, and even earn degrees online in such disciplines as nursing,1 law,2 and business,3 among others. Yet, despite these advances in our society, the majority of patients are given handwritten medication prescriptions, and very few patients are able to email their physician4 or even schedule an appointment to see a provider without speaking to a live receptionist. Electronic health record (EHR) systems have the potential to transform the health care system from a mostly paper-based industry to one that utilizes clinical