Inpatient Vs Outpatient Health Care

Electronic health records can lessen the disintegration of care by refining care coordination. The use of electronic health records will deliver providers with accurate information. This is especially important for those that see multiple specialists, and enable a smooth transition between care settings and receive treatment in emergency

The electronic health record (EHR) is a digital record of a patient’s health history that may be made up of records from many locations and/or sources, such as hospitals, providers, clinics, and public health agencies. The EHR is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and has built-in safeguards to assure patient health information confidentiality and security. (Huston, 2013)

Electronic health records (EHR) are health records that are generated by health care professionals when a patient is seen at a medical facility such as a hospital, mental health clinic, or pharmacy. The EHR contains the same information as paper based medical records like demographics, medical complaints and prescriptions. There are so many more benefits to the EHR than paper based medical records. Accuracy of diagnosis, quality and convenience of patient care, and patient participation are a few examples of the

After decades of paper based medical records, a new type of record keeping has surfaced - the Electronic Health Record (EHR). EHR is an electronic or digital format concept of an individual’s past and present medical history. It is the principle storage place for data and information about the health care services provided to an individual patient. It is maintained by a provider over time and capable of being shared across different healthcare settings by network-connected information systems. Such records may include key administrative and clinical data relevant to that persons care under a particular provider. Examples of such records may include: demographics, physician notes, problems or injuries, medications and allergies, vital

There will be information at hand to assist in making medical decision during the time of visit. Lastly, the EHR mandates that people’s health information is to be kept secure ("Department of Health and Human Services," 2008).

An electronic health record (EHR) defines as the permissible patient record created in hospitals that serve as the data source for all health records. It is an electronic version of a paper chart that includes the patient’s medical history, maintained by the provider over time, and may include all of the key administrative clinical data relevant to that persons care. Information that is readily available includes information such as demographics, progress notes, allergies, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data, & radiology reports. The intent of an EHR can be understood as a complete record of patient

Electronic Patient Record (EPR) is where essential patient information during each visit or admission is stored. Historical events pertinent to each patient are also stored within each individual record. This system has also enabled professional care givers to quickly, securely, and effectively transfer patient information to other professionals on transfer, consult, or for advice (Wager et al., 2009).

The clinical documentation is very complex and detailed as the input from different departments, clinicians, physicians, consultants and providers of patient care are all integrated into a single episode-of-care documentation. While EHR is becoming more advanced they became the link to each internal department. The Ambulatory EHR system would work well if it was in a web-based environment. The records would be portable and accessible from anywhere. The information would be able to move between staff members as messages rather than orders.The order that is standard in an inpatient chart does not exist in ambulatory records. In advocating both EHR web-based systems they would have to provide proof of value, reliability, acceptability, difficulty of usage, and make changes and adjust. For EHR there are some elements that are common to both ambulatory and acute care systems like privacy and security standards keeping problems list, medication and allergies list. Ambulatory EHR need to be capable of electronic prescribing to outside pharmacies; acute care systems do not their medications are all in house and is handled through CPOE rather than

In the case of Jared, he is seeking treatment after being in an inpatient alcohol treatment center. In patient services helped him focus on addressing his addiction to alcohol and what triggers him to drink. Jared can benefit by using outpatient services. Outpatient services will help Jared by giving him more freedom to allow his commitment to family responsibilities at the same time attend his sessions (Erford, 2013). Jared must abstain from alcohol which requires a lot of willpower but outpatient can offer him support groups, individual counseling, and family counseling, so Jared will never feel like he is alone in his recovery.

Patients recognize discharge as a distinct episode in their care but, it also can skew their perceptions of the entire hospitalization. Educating, empowering and engaging the patient with pertinent information and support tools can make a vast difference in the success of their post-discharge care. The MDW is a low-cost tool designed to increase the patient’s knowledge and understanding about their medications upon discharge. Most hospitals have printed medication instructions in order to fulfill the “Meaningful Use Requirements,” that was initiated with the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program. But, there is not standardization on how and when to use the MDW in the discharge process. The goal is to have better communication about medications. We are proposing that the MDW be incorporated into discharge teaching for all inpatients. This will require hospitals to reassess their current discharge processes and then, redesign the process to improve on what they have. The existing process will be redesigned to simplify and standardize the process throughout the organization. There will not be a need for additional personnel. The roles of

“… longitudinal electronic record of patient health information generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting”. Included in this information are patient demographics… reports. The EHR automates and streamlines the clinician 's workflow. The EHR has the ability to generate a complete record of a clinical patient encounter, and related activities directly or indirectly via interface—including evidence-based decision support, quality management, and outcomes reporting.”(GAO, 2010)

An Electronic Health Record is a computerized form of a patient’s medical chart. These records allow information to be readily available to authorized providers during a patient’s encounter with the healthcare system. These systems do not only contain medical histories, current medications and insurance information, they also track patients’ diagnoses, treatment plans, immunization dates, allergies, radiology images and lab tests/results (source). The fundamental aspect of EHRs is that they are able to share a patient’s information quickly across service lines and even between different healthcare organizations. Information is at the fingertips of lab techs, primary care physicians, pharmacies, clinics, etc. The

Inpatient and outpatient are two different healthcare setting. Outpatient medical coding involves coding medical charts for patients who are discharged from the medical facility within 24 hours.

There are many different healthcare settings, which Electronic Health Records (EHR) have been implemented. One may think EHR’s are the same for all settings; however, based on the needs and application to each area, there are similarities and differences. This paper will delve into the Perioperative setting and Ambulatory setting in primary care. Information provided will highlight the value of Electronic Health Information (EHI), its impact at the warehouse and regional level as it improves patient care among the respective practitioners in these settings and its impact to Public Health Information Networks (PHIN) and National Health Information Networks (NHIN).

The PPD screening standardized protocol will occur in the outpatient setting in the Riverside Country region. The outpatient clinic will include mother-baby clinics, OBGYN department, and primary care clinic. The new mother will follow up with the primary care provider within one month with the results of the 2 weeks post-delivery EPDS screening in order to have as baseline. Continuity of care to screen for depression will be from 2 weeks after the delivery date until one year postpartum.