Mckesson

McKesson, now “the world’s largest health care services company,” has a combined customer base of about 5000 hospitals, 25,000 retail pharmacies, 35,000 physician practices, 10,000 extended care sites, 450 pharmaceutical manufactures, and 2000 medical-surgical manufacturers (Chicago tribune 1998). Mckesson has a 13.2% market share of the Health Information Technology industry and employs roughly 37,000 people. Mckesson’s hospital information system solutions includes their electronic health record system (HER, Total Coordinated Care product suite, InterQual Decision support products,

Clinical documentation is vital to the success and care every clinical facility provides for their patients. It is a time-stamped process that includes all medical data performed by the hospital. It gives detailed analysis of procedures that were done, reasons why and past medical history. This gives the patient and hospital a detailed summary which helps improves the effectiveness

With the elimination of paper charts, patients information becomes available with a touch of a button. This information includes insurance verification, current medications, lab reports, and past visit summaries.

Technology and health care have a relationship that has grown exponentially over time. Not only has advances in technology allowed for more treatments and research into cures for diseases, but it has also created a better patient care in hospitals. This is why nurses need to “Demonstrate effective use of technology to navigate the electronic health record, communicate with inter/intraprofessional teams, and be involved with decision making in the delivery of quality and safe patient care” (Ivy Tech Community College, 2016). A study conducted by (use of electronic) found that the most common thing nurses use now to help plan patient care is electronic health records. What was once a stack of paper in a binder is now streamlined onto a user interface, with easier access to what parts of the chart a nurse would need, compared to having to flip back and forth between pages in a paper chart. Hard to read hand writing on paper charts could lead to errors in patient care; nowadays, electronic charts have information in easy to read fonts with important information sometimes bolded or in different colors, allowing the information to better catch the eye of the nurse to avoid mistakes. (use of electronic) also

McKesson is one of the leaders in developing solutions for all levels of medical practices form the small to the large. This includes electronic health records (EHR), practice management software (PMS), and hospital information systems (HIS) that bundles clinical, financial, physician

Overall, the purpose of this paper was demonstrated the development of electronic health records and clinical documentation that is used by healthcare practitioners to provide the quality care. The Clinical Documentation has focused on providing care to patients and sharing patient information between healthcare providers and patient medical record to track their conditions. Essentially, future technologies will reduce the dependence from medical paper based industry to use fully an electronic clinical documentation and significantly contribute to these changes and assists health practitioners in meeting professional and organizational goals. This will provide a more efficient infrastructure, and it would be more beneficial for health care when the technology advances, which is helpful towards all patients, the care teams, and health care organizations.

Documentation is a very important task that all nurses must do when working in the healthcare field. Accurate documentation not only assures high quality patient care but is our best defense in a malpractice lawsuit. Avoiding malpractice by proper and complete documentation is about more than just avoiding a lawsuit making it to court; it is about avoiding the litigation process entirely. We need to remember that documenting has to be legible, complete, and thoughtful to prevent risks for litigation. A patient's chart is a medical and legal document.

Though the technique of technical writing is identical throughout the medical community, the instruments used for recording and logging information differs from facility to facility. The added computer technology into many facilities makes recording a patient’s report considerably easier. The time it takes to produce medical charts is significantly lessened and retrieving information is more effective. Below is a picture of the search screen in the school health room. To the left there are several areas the nurse can search or they can simple type in the student’s last name or student ID number and retrieve parent information and class schedules.

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) support medical clinicians in making evidence-based decisions and diagnoses by providing scenario-pertinent information from patient data in the electronic

Despite their potential to significantly improve health care, advanced clinical decision support (CDS) capabilities are not widely available in the clinical setting. An important reason for this limited availability of CDS capabilities is the application-specific and institution-specific nature of most current CDS implementations. There is a critical need to enable CDS capabilities on a much larger scale is the development and adoption of standards that enable current and emerging CDS resources to be more effectively leveraged across multiple applications and care settings. Standards required for such effective scaling of CDS include (i) standard terminologies and information models to represent and communicate about health care data; (ii) standard approaches to representing clinical knowledge in both human-readable and machine-executable formats; and (iii) standard approaches for

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are used throughout the hospital where I work. An EMR has led to many improvements in having access to medical records, in a timely manner. When a patient registers in the Emergency Department, I can see how many visits they have had. I can see all records, including past medical problems, allergies, test results, and a list of current medications they have filled at a Pharmacy. This is very useful when the patient omits information. It only takes a few steps to input protocols. An EMR decreases the risk of losing information or having to wait on records from the Medical Records Department. Additionally, the EMR allows Physicians to easily compare lab values from different visits and track a trend. EMR’s have become a valuable tool in Healthcare.

Effectively managing the health of the population requires tremendous efforts and strategies of a healthcare organization. Leveraging the use of health information technology such as enabling the use of clinical decision support (CDS) at the point care is one of the strategies for an effective population health management (PHM). Rush-Copley Medical Center has successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of CDS at the point of care in managing a TB outbreak, which has resulted in containing the disease and further outbreak in the general population. Such an example has shown the optimization of the systems and the value of health information technology

Healthcare informatics is used to help manage care of patients through electronic health records, decision support tools and safety alerts. In the emergency department the electronic health records provide fast and easy access for everyone to see. Starting at triage we find out what brought the patient in, assess any wounds and place them into a room according to what is wrong. What moves this process along is the fact that while we are asking questions and assessing the patient we document the findings. The doctor can see what we are documenting and now quickly have a background on this patient and go do his own assessment or order tests in a fast manor. I learned quickly today that time is everything within the emergency room. Another time

The integration of biomedical devises and a fast and simple documentation entry to reduce time away from patient care and the “meaningful use: of documentation (O’Brien, Weaver, Settergren, Hook & Ivory, 2015, p 334). The time a health care worker spends aware from patient care for documentation has become very tedious and not focusing on the patient as much as 19% to 35.3% of a shift (O’Brien, Weaver, Settergren, Hook & Ivory, 2015, p 334). The idea of “data rich and information poor” while laboring over charting and mandatory reporting can be improved with the use of systems to improve nurse workflow (O’Brien, Weaver, Settergren, Hook & Ivory, 2015, p 334).

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