Challenges Faced by Records Centres in Zimbabwe

In the medical field there have been a lot of technological advances and making health records electronic is one of them. The days of having a paper health record are almost obsolete. An electronic health record keeps a patient’s medical information and history on a computer which is accessible to more people in less time. I will explain how the continuity, communication, coordination and accountability of the electronic health record can help the medical office. I will explain what can be included in the electronic health record. As an advocate of the electronic health record I will also explain some disadvantages to the electronic system.

The use of technology in HIM department works out well and effectively. Each patient who is new is assigned a unique medical record number and it always remains the same for the patient each time he/she want to get health care from this health care system. Another system

The Medical Record Management System your office implements is only as good as the ease of

Although handwritten records are still the mainstay of clinical record keeping, many medical professionals believe that the increased use of information technologies has the potential to effect healthcare for the better. For example, Dr. Daniel R. Masys said, “Against a background of an explosively growing body of knowledge in the health sciences, current models of clinical decision making by autonomous practitioners, relying upon their memory and personal experience, will be inadequate for effective twenty-first-century health care delivery.” While keeping in mind how far manual records have gotten us, we need to realize that information technologies result in better data correlation and management.

We all know that it can be very hard and difficult to get use to change, mostly when a single person has become accustomed to doing the medical records the old fashion regular way. Nonetheless, there has been new technology keep arriving and it’s making the medical record so much easier with the innovations of today world. So the management must make changes to compose and motivate their employees so that they can be gladly fine of the new technology (Robbins, 2011). Healthcare are starting to use electronic medical records for different services across the health care world, although the change is not

1. Replace paper-based medical records which can be incomplete, fragmented (different parts in different locations), hard to read and sometimes hard to find (Electronic Medical Records, 2005).

Remember when everything was paper based and computers never existed, what happen to those days? What happen to having to do things manual? Well technology sure has changed and had made things easier and more cost effective in some ways. In the 1980s and the 1990s, Electronic Health Records (EHR) was just being introduced in such organizations such as Intermountain Health Care-Utah, Partners Healthcare-Boston, and Wishard Memorial Hospital-Indiana were among the few to see the quality and efficiency of EHR. (Byers, 2011)

Healthcare is a complex entity that encompasses a variety of specialties necessary toward meeting the needs of patient seeking clinical services. There are multiple communications necessary to efficiently meet patient needs. For many years detailed documentation, progress notes, specialty consults, and physician orders have been hand written. The legibility of this documentation was often illegible, and difficult to decipher, which resulted in clarification orders and often delays. The electronic medical record was introduced approximately 50 years ago with an ultimate goal of compiling healthcare information for immediate and future reference (Keller, 2016). Since the electronic medical records was initially implemented multiple versions have since been created. Successfully implementing the electronic medical record, requires a great deal of research to ensure that the specifications align with the organization’s short and long term goals.

The major change from traditional systems to electronic record systems in the healthcare field within the last couple decades has made a huge impact. Patient records, risk management, planning, staff, and more in the organization are affected by the IT staff. “The penetration of Internet access, mobile technologies and social networks collectively offer a future in which it is possible to deliver highly personalized care without necessarily having to do it in person, or even with a doctor.”(Healthcare IT News, n.d.) Many hospitals use paper records for patients long after electronic record technology was available. According to forbes.com in an article published two years ago, less than 2 percent of all healthcare organizations within the United States had and properly deployed information systems.

The system must be easily understood to others who may need access; creating only the records that are necessary, using a sensible and logical naming system, keeping the files and records up to date by sorting them regularly are ways to keep the system productive, simple and efficient. Faster filing and retrieval,

The process of migrating from paper-based charts to electronic records is a complicated process that requires dealing with all issues. The process has no particular route, but strategic planning and execution are necessary so that all risk issues get dealt before they happen. The article proposes changes made depending on the ambulatory care. The goals must become tactical, reasonable and measurable. The process requires a timeline that’s needed to ensure human resource and financial resources meet all the demands. An assessment of the hospital’s readiness determines the software and hardware gap, employee competencies and training, and human technology interaction.

Health information management involves the practice of maintaining and taking care of health records in hospitals, health insurance companies and other health institutions, by the use of electronic means (McWay 176). Storage of medical information is carried out by health information management and HIT professionals using information systems that suit the needs of these institutions. This paper answers four major questions concerning health information systems.

Inevitably, health information systems (HIS) affect both patient care and documentation. Consider the following scenario. A patient with hypertension schedules routine appointments with his primary care physician. At every appointment, the nurse documents the blood pressure reading along with the most updated list of medications that the patient is currently taking. After

Finally, after realising the seriousness of the issue the President of Toyota Motors insisted for a centralised database management, with all customers’ records being stored in a single database. Although it seems to be a very easy task to collect all the records from different locations and then compiling it in a single database, but it was not as simple and easy for Toyota because it involved a series of data management processes.

Microsoft Access provides many functions for end users. While working in IT Support, many different situations may present from customers phoning in and requesting information or assistance. Following are three different situations that may be presented at a support desk. First, we will examine a veterinarian who wants to use Microsoft® Access® for his business, and has some questions regarding the functions of Access. Second, a man created a database to inventory his customers’ past due accounts to ensure that he receives payment. Third, a user has been using a Microsoft® Access® database and queries to track her commemorative