Electronic Health Information Analysis

The purpose of this section is to assist in formalizing ideas for the design of The Electronic Health Records system. Specifically, this section will illustrate the unique attributes of individual Electronic Health Records databases, explain how these databases are constructed, describe their uses and data elements and types. It will also produce a detailed data model of the database to meet the end user requirement.

In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA. The purpose of HIPAA is to provide guidance and tools to protect and secure patient’s medical records. There are two sections of the act that will be today’s focus – the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule. At the end of this training, employees will understand what HIPAA is, how it applies to [Hospital], and the penalties for violation.

The problem faced by the student run clinic called Bhagat Puran Singh Health Initiative (BPSHI), which is a non-profit organization is to have an affordable yet reliable system that can further expand on the free health awareness provided. One such way that can further expand on the health assistance is the transition of older traditional paper medical record to an electronic record system (EMR). However, there are a number of sub-problems that needs to be addressed when implementing the transition, which are: a proper EMR application, work force, and analysis skills not limited to time and cost. In simpler words, the problem faced is mainly the lack of a proper way to implement EMR. There is privacy right over one’s health information; despite what form is used paper or electronic. Therefore, a crucial factor to consider while analyzing the problem is the requirement of keeping the medical information both private and protected. In order to follow HIPAA guidelines, proper training needs to be implemented before data entering the patient’s medical into the system (Rodriguuez, 2011). Additionally, another factor that could potentially cause hindrance in the transition process for medical records is: further sub-diving the workload needed to manually transfer the paper records into EMR such as data entering, compliance monitoring, and administrating. Lastly, implement the best application for EMR that is not only cost efficient but also user friendly as well. In order to

In the year 2009, President Obama began the electronic medical record stimulus in hopes that is integration will improve streamlining patient care along with long term savings within the health care systems. In accordance, the stimulus has offered financial incentives for physician to convert from the paper chart to an electronic chart. Many benefits related to the electronic health record. The most important benefit is having the orders legible and clear, avoiding nurses from interpreting terrible hand writing style. This will reduce errors with nurses misinterpreting the written order. Electronic health record provides the nurses with the past medical history of the patient in just one area and at one time. This

According to a paper on Electronic Health Records Standards (Kalra, 2006),to receive an integrated and complete view of the health history of each patient has so far proved to be challenging to meet. This requirement has been recognized to be a major hurdle to the safe and effective delivery of healthcare services by doctors and by governments internationally. The paper highlights that

In the United States, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has mandated that all medical records be converted to an electronic format by 2015. Promises of improved availability of patient information, enhanced efficiency and cost-effectiveness are a few of the factors that have steered the need for this conversion. Successful implementation of Electronic Health Records involves collaboration, communication, financial resources, technical infrastructure and coordination. This paper will address the benefits of utilizing a Project Management Framework to ensure the successful transition into the digital arena of document management.

The desideratum to secure patient’s records in a healthcare environment led to the adoption of the Electronic Health Records (EHR). The EHR is a computerized system that maintains the health record and contains a comprehensive health history of an individual. The availability of healthcare records in an electronic format has conveniently amended the quality of healthcare services. This paper presents a systematic literature review concerning the privacy and security issues that confront the medical industry in the utilization of electronic medical records.

The medical field is moving to another level when it comes to technology, with the implementation of Electronic Health Records, also known by the acronym, EHR. The new system that allows medical records to be maintained electronically, by the internet is making waves. The government has even put incentive programs into place, as extra encouragement to providers. The adaptation to Electronic Health Records has been anything but smooth, as many medical practices have been reluctant and some just afraid to try something new. Concerns will continue to arise until the medical world has an understanding of the privacy and security rules that follow the new technology. Electronic Health Records has and will continue to prove itself as an asset, a convenience, efficient, helpful, and more, as some will continue to shy away from the change. Electronic Health Records will prove that it is “meaningful”, falling under the category of “meaningful use.”

Taking into consideration of rising health care costs, inconsistent in the quality of service being provided, insurance companies being over charged repeat of unnecessary testing, health information records not being properly kept up, or miss placed patient personal information and other data that is not properly being kept in place. One of the things about technology is that make a complicated system less complicated. According to the American Journal of Medicine, electronic medical record systems improve the quality of patient care and decrease medical errors. The electronic medical records processes make it easy to track all information of a patient visit, which include testing, medication and treatment plans. For them, this was a good way to get feedback on the implementation of electronic medical records it ranged from March 2008 until September 2008. In seen the problems that are being incurred due to implementation they can avoid the barriers to or facilitators of the

Protecting data in the healthcare is extremely important as it contains valuable information about the patient like personally identified health information. The information is vital, as it exhibits a strong relationship between doctor and patient for dealing with any issues the patient might have. It provides, absolute care, and gives better information to a patient or physician required for the course of actions. The consequences that could take place with this information can be data breaches, such as unauthorized access to the information or data in health records, and can result in atypical activities. To avoid this, the data or the information in the Electronic Medical Records must be provided with strong privacy and security laws. International law provides Privacy and Security regulations to protect the data of health care organizations. Despite the laws implemented there are certain data breaches taking place in day-to-day life, which is growing. This paper reviews the privacy and security laws that are implemented and followed in the USA, India, and the European Union and in particular regional laws/ regulations and the differences between them. There are certain reporting obligations and penalties that must be obeyed in case of violation of these laws/ regulations which will discuss here. This paper also

The Henry Ford Health System has currently acquired another hospital system from the Jackson area, thus creating a six-hospital affiliate system ("Henry Ford Health," 2016). Upon further review of the electronic health record programs, the board of directors have come to the conclusion that there must be a new electronic health record system developed that will link the medical records amongst all of the various hospitals. Quality of care is what the Henry Ford Health system strives for, thus, there must be interoperability amongst our hospitals. The new electronic health record system will have the following data systems: management information systems, decision support systems, executive information systems, expert system, and knowledge management system to ensure patient quality care and interoperability amongst all the hospitals. The implementation for the new electronic record system is expected to take approximately three years, so that information systems office can handle the testing stages of the new system. The Henry Ford Health system has had much success with our new billing program that links all the patient accounts within our hospital system. Subsequently, the board of directors believes that the implementation of our new electronic health record will be a smashing success, which will lower the chance of a patient having to repeat the same medical testing.

Digital technology has transformed the world radically - tablets, smartphones, and web-enabled devices have revolutionized our daily life and way of communication. Medicine is an information-rich sector. A greater and smooth flow of information in the digital healthcare sector, created by the electronic health records (EHRs), encourages digital progress and can transform how patient care is delivered and compensated.

4. The U.S bureau of labor has predicted a rise in demand by 20 percent of the health information management professionals. As electronic health records help in maintainence of raised standards of data privacy, integrity, the requirement of expert professionals in evaluating and interpreting the electronic health records have increased. The electronic health records can be established in all the specialised departments in the health care system thus there is an expanding role of health information management

It is agreed that clinical documentation systems are used at a high rate in health care information technology. There is so much that technology has changed and will continue to change in the future, which includes electronic health records. The mention of security with information technology is an important part of protecting health information with most of it being electronic protection remains just as important to consumers. There needs to be continued work to improve security to prevent breeches and threats. In the article by Ropp and Quammen (2015), it reviews the growing number of breaches to protected health information since 2010. A large number could be linked backed to laptops, thumb drives, and paper records that had been stolen

It is important to understand that using electronic health system helps physicians to provide a more accurate diagnosis which helps to reduce medical errors and incorrect diagnosis which make patients very happy knowing that physicians have their best interest at heart (Kudyba, 2010). In electronic health system, information is structured and well organized in a manner that helps to eliminate the time spent searching for information. Moreover, patients are very happy since electronic health system helps to provide privacy and security of patients’ information and data so as to eliminate the problem of leaving patients’ information unattended on papers so that unauthorized personnel can see and