Meaningful Use And The Health Care System

Implementation of the electronic health records (EHRs) has been a growing trend in the healthcare field from fear of the unknown to the acceptance of the reality of the EHRs and the actually utilizing the system. The struggle to go live with the EHR was a challenge because change is always a difficult implementation. According to Fickenscher & Bakerman, (2011) Change is a process that is individualized base on one's ability to adopt and the interest on the change. Some people may take longer to understand a process while others will grab the skill within a short time. However, some few setbacks slow down the adoption of the EHRs when it was first implemented, Culture, communication and training and time. Despite

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the electronic health record mandate. Who started it and when? I will discuss the goals of the mandate. I will discussion will how the Affordable Care Act ties into the mandate of Electronic Health Record. It will describe my own facility’s EHR and what steps are been taken to implement it. I will describe the term “meaningful use,” and it will discuss possible threats to patient confidentiality and the what’s being done by my facility to prevent Health Information and Portability Accountability Act or HIPAA violations.

The purpose of this discussion board is to describe the Electronic Health Record (EHR), the six steps of an EHR and how my facility implements them, describe “meaningful use” and how my facility status is in obtaining it, and to further discuss the EHR’s and patient confidentiality.

Several years ago, a mandate was ordered requiring all healthcare facilities to progress from paper charting and record keeping to electronic health record (EHR). This transition to electronic formatting has pros and cons associated with it. I will be describing the EHR mandate, including who initiated it, when it was initiated, the goals of the EHR, and how the Affordable Care Act and the Obama administration are tied into it. Then I will show evidence of research and discuss the six steps of this process as well as my facilities progress with EHR. Then I will describe meaningful use and how my facility attained it. Finally, I will define HIPAA law, the possible threats to patient confidentiality relating to EHR, and how what my facility

For over 10 years, all areas of industry have been investing in informational technology (IT). IT offers faster and more proficient care especially for the healthcare industry. Health information technology (HIT) is making significant changes in how care is being delivered and addressed for patients and healthcare workers. HIT includes electronic health records (EHR), personal health records (PHI), electronic prescribing and more. The potential list is endless. HIT provides for more accurate and efficient documentation, prescriptions, and education. The Obama administration came up with an answer to help in HIT by instituting the meaningful use. This paper will discuss the overview of meaningful use, its’ core criteria, and recommendations for additional criteria.

It is important to understand that, meaningful use regulation established objectives that healthcare organizations such as hospitals and other healthcare facilities have to meet in order to be qualified for the center for Medicare and Medicaid services. Many healthcare organizations are making progress when it comes to meaningful regulations. There was a recent survey that shows that a lot of healthcare organization began using some type of electronic health record so as to be able to input patients, data, information, allows healthcare providers to establish clinical notes and to be able to write prescription and transfer patients’ information from one provider to another (Lopez, 2014).

A wave of medical errors and patient deaths caused by healthcare providers renewed the search for a viable EHR system in 2000. Electronic health records would allow "providers to make better decisions and provide better

Therefore, several authors share some of the same ideas as to what some of the barriers faced during the transition to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and if these barriers still exist once the transition to a full EHR system is complete. Herrick, et al., 2010, states that currently, there is no hard-core evidence to support the argument that Electronic Health Record (EHRs) and Health Information Technology is the best route for health organizations to prevent errors. In fact, the use of such technology could potentially lead to errors if information incorrectly entered in the system and Haupt, 2011, statement that smart software could help to prevent life-threatening errors better when administering medicines. Whereas, Boonstra & Broekhuis, 2010, states from a physician point a view need the understanding of the possible barriers that faced during implementation of EHRs because there a tremendous amount of literature on the obstacles but no suggestion on how to resolve these barriers have not been viewed. Barriers such as, financial on great startup and ongoing cost, technical and time to train staff and how much knowledge do they have with computer skills and psychological when support needed from vendors, etc. It suggests that once those barriers have been ironed out and a plan has set in place, then the transition from paper documentation to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) may go a lot easier for the healthcare arena physician, nurses and administrative

The goal in healthcare today is to achieve better patient outcomes. Technology is changing daily that affects how patient care is provided. As the world around us continues to move into a more advanced technology based healthcare system incentives are offered to qualifying healthcare entities, provided they are utilizing approved health information technology (IT) to comply with standards set by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (Jones, Rudin, Perry, & Shekelle, 2014). Standards such as meaningful use help ensure with the use of electronic health records (EHR) that patients are receiving quality care (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], n.d.). This paper will define and discuss the importance and implications of meaningful use relating to healthcare. Several key points will be discussed including an overview of meaningful use, analysis, further recommendations and a conclusion.

Meaningful use is how medical professionals use EHR technology, to improve quality care, and encouraging patient and family involved meant. Meaningful use is what we use to keep patient’s health information more private and secure. It helps us provide quality and efficient care by providing us with the resources we use for our patients.

Meaningful Use in the medical field describes the adaptation of health care in three stages and is based on things like improving quality and efficiency of patient care, engaging patients and family members in the patients’ health, and the improvement upon population and public health. Stage one, which began in 2010, focused on the use of Electronic Health Records. The second, which took root in late 2012, increased the implementation of patient education, participation, and care-coordination. The third and final stage, which will focus on “robust health information exchange” has yet to go into effect. Stage one of the Meaningful Use concept, which is mainly the production of an electronic patient file that can be easily accessed by other

Electronic health records (EHRs) are secure and private lifetime records that describe a person’s health history and care (An Overview of Federal and Provincial Audit Reports, 2010). They are made up of information from a variety of sources, including hospitals, clinics, doctors, pharmacies, and laboratories (An Overview of Federal and Provincial Audit Reports, 2010). This information is critical for treatment and is accessible to health care professionals. Electronic Health records is said to be, “optimizing the documentation of patient encounters, improving communication of information to physicians, improving access to patient medical information, reduction of errors, optimizing billing and improving reimbursement for services, forming a data repository for research and quality improvement, and reduction of paper” (Boonstra, 2010). However, when one has not been formally introduced many will be

As everything is done online now, healthcare is gearing that same direction with utilizing EHR (electronic health record) when it comes to better patient satisfaction. The paper recording system is fading out because its unreliable and very costly for many practices. In order to provide fast and accurate information to physicians and patients EHR comes very handy. It doesn’t seem that too many are utilizing it to its full capacity because of cost, time and having to getting used to it but it does save lives and minimizes errors.

Medical technologies are widely used in the health care industry for many reasons, to provide care, to help improve the patients’ welfare, and serve as preventative measures, (Longest & Darr, 2008, p. 122). As stated in the press release, the Recovery Act awards to the fifteen Beacon communities generate a pathway to introduce health information technology, such as electronic health record (EHR) in health care organizations (White House, 2010). Electronic health records (EHR) is best described as an electronic version of patients’ health records. Electronic health record (EHR) is a system that allows health care organizations such as

Great synopsis of how the electronic health record (EHR) affects both direct and indirect patient care and health assessments. I have found in my practice EHR’s can be good and bad. In 2014 my organization transitioned to a new EHR and quadruped the amount of technology used by all members of the health care team. The nursing had the most impact, with the introduction of: integrated bedside monitoring (BMDI), smart-pump integration, bar-code medication administration, electronic care-plans, admission assessment and flowsheet documentation.