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This case analysis of Stanford’s Hospital and Clinics (SHC) electronic medical record (EMR) system implementation will focus on how the healthcare organization focused on resolving a problem to meet regulatory pressures and responded to an opportunity to create operational efficiency, by capitalizing on the use of information technology to help reduce costs. We will discuss the organization’s IT problems, opportunities, and the alternatives available to address each. We will summarize an analysis of potential alternatives including the organization’s EMR system of choice and conclude with a recommendation to the Board on how to rollout the new system.

"EMR vendors are being stretched to the limits by requirements to support multiple standards across the country". One of the functions of EMR is to make possible to transfer data into information and to support the knowledge; other indicator of quality is its interoperability (De.ryerson.ca, 2013 CHIT 100), in order to meet these requirements EMR system has to support multiple standards. This is required not only to be able to be used across the facilities and/or networks, but also to make it highly functional and interoperable with EHR. Vendors are required to make EMR system maximum functional

In the recent years, EHR implementation has been one of the biggest change that occurred in the health care delivery system. The adoption of EHR system which aims to improve the quality of healthcare, however, has met a lot of issues and barriers that are detrimental to its success. Thus, for any healthcare organization to achieve a favorable outcome after the EHR implementation, numerous factors have to be examined. Merrill (2010) has listed down the top ten factors for a successful EHR adoption. It includes right leadership, shared vision, right culture, governance, physicians, nurses and key stakeholders are engaged early and accountable to lead the clinical transformation, resources, clinical content standardization, realistic timelines and expectations, effective training and communication plan, and right vendor partnership relationship.

The implementation of the new EMR system to the hospital will provide ease of information access, protected PHI, and help eliminate errors in our everyday use.

It can overall increase productivity and profit in the long-term. For instance, my workplace instills usage of electronic medical records for new and current patients for efficiency, productivity, and accuracy for the long-term of patients dental x-rays and health history. The costs involved are considerable and hard to calculate depending on the fees and licensing. According to, (Health Resources and Services Administration, 2016), a persistent problem is demonstrating a return on investment from an (EHR) implementation is often times challenging and may be even more difficult for smaller practices. The cost and effort involved from staff and management is difficult, but necessary to carry out productivity for implementation of (EHR). Every company practice is different and every practice must adapt to changes of implementing (EMR) for the duration of patient accuracy. Aside from the challenges, cost, and effort of implementing (EMR)’s in health care organizations, there is a desire to generate a return on investment (ROI) from them.

As useful as the EMR is to patient care there exist a few drawbacks when records are transformed from paper into the digital form. Even though patient health records can only be accessed from inside the hospital’s computers, the EMR can be accessed from anywhere inside the hospital or from another hospital or clinic within the same organization. Before the implementation of the EMR, healthcare staff had to go directly to the patient 's physical chart and thumb through pages of information. Now, with the EMR, any hospital employee can access any patient 's information anywhere inside the hospital. EMRs are more easily accessible, even to personnel not involved in the

The clinic will use the most advanced computer, software and server systems, as well as an internet connection to optimize the EMR system. Other software and network systems will be used for quick verification, transference of patient information from other locations, and reduced administrative costs.

Hence, EHR 's are inherently complex amalgamations of diverse subsystems targeted toward varied users. The stakeholders are the users and must have a role in implementing any IT or EHR system into its work flow. An EHR can be customized to accommodate any environment depending on the level of expertise of the vendor and how long they have been in the business of creating an optimum system that 's customized to fit the organizations needs. For the most part, EHR 's must be designed for efficient, error free use. Ideally, an EHR is a system that encompass all the subsystems that make a hospital meet "meaningful use" criteria to acquire incentives for adopting EHR into practice. In the next five years, EHR adoption will no longer be a luxury, it will be a "MUST". EHR 's and other health information technology will be a necessity to practice medicine (econsultant.com, 2010). Rather than purchase several standalone systems, it would behoove one , in my opinion , to purchase an EHR that would satisfy all the needs of the stakeholders, the physician , nurses and other hospital staff and all parties involved in the tertiary practice too. Although LWMS 's budget is not large enough to accommodate the full cost of implementing an EHR,

In regards to technology and how its influences healthcare today we see the use of EHRs, which allows for a high capacity healthcare environment by condensing patient information into an easily accessible form for all healthcare professionals. “EHRs allow us to collect meaningful data to determine the efficacy in which our units are functioning” (Biddle & Milstead 2016, p.12). This technology can help manage the high capacity hospital environment while not compromising quality. This

ummer Heat Sugar Cane This poem has a meaningful structure and illustrates someone Thinking of sugarcane juice on a hot, summer day. Line breaks are usually used to emphasize meaning. In this poem, every line break tells you a part of the story.

The question of which country wields the greatest foreign influence in Latin America is multifaceted as there are influences at play that are short, medium, and long term. It could be said that Iran may be the short-term threat with its support to the Hezbollah in its many forms in the southern tri-border region Latin America, and its growing influence in Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago over the last few years. Russia, and to some degree the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), have influenced Latin America governments and leftist movements since the 1930’s with their socialist, Marxist-Leninist, and social-democratic ideologies. Prime examples of this are Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua. However, there is an excellent argument that

A legacy system is an important topic to address because of its magnitude within a health care organization. A legacy system can be a health care organization information system, nurse scheduling system, purchasing and inventory control system, admission-discharge-transfer systems, and facility planning system ( ). Any EHR system considered by a health care organization has to take into consideration the compatibility with the legacy systems already used within the facility. One of the most popular EHR platforms is the cloud-hosting services because installation is minimal and the cost is based on the number of embedded applications needed. In the article, " " by talks about how middleware has the opportunity to connect and gather data from different EHR systems once

You are an IT Director at a medium-sized urban hospital with 160 beds and 1,500 associates. You are a full-service hospital with a typical list of departments to include multiple ICUs, mother & baby, emergency services, radiology, oncology, surgery, etc. You are considering a new EMR application because the vendor of your current EMR has lost market share, failed to pass meaningful use attestation, and is losing market share with unpredictable future stability state. You are considering a cloud solution as the potential network architecture & strategy.

In 2005, HIMSS Analytics developed the eight-stage EMR Adoption Model. The model reflects the results of more than 5,000 institutions surveyed about their level of clinical system implementation and progress toward a paperless EMR (HIMSS, 2009). To progress through each stage of the model, capabilities within each stage must be operational and all lower stages must have been achieved before a higher level will be considered achieved (HIMSS, 2009).

According to Brueggemann (2014)“Communities are natural human groups, networks, and associations of people related to one another by at least one common or compelling factor in more or less loosely linked forms of connection”(p.142). Communities are not only a place where a group of people cohabitate but a linkage among people sharing common interests and activities. In every community there are social workers that advocate on the behalf of the vulnerable and oppressed population. A social worker needs to become familiar with the communities that their clients reside in, to better provide local resources and aid to clients. In every community there are resources and assets that could be used to improve its social environment. For example, many communities have programs like the YMCA that promotes youth development and communication among people living in the community. In addition, a social worker that provides direct services to client needs to be aware of the resources available within the community and the population seeking the assistance. By identifying which people live in a certain community, social workers could develop cultural humility and have a better understanding of their client’s values, morals and heritage. Having this knowledge is crucial since some resources are specifically tailored to certain groups. For instance, some senior centers provide meals, transportation, and employment assistance for the elderly. Knowing the population that lives