Meaningful Use For Nurses : Implications And Recommendations

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

Over the past decade, virtually every major industry invested heavily in computerization. The heath care industry was no exception to the rise in the use of technology. These technologies are starting to allow health care practitioners to offer faster, and more efficient patient care than ever before. No doubt this is the right direction we expect health care to follow.

Meaningful used is defined as the set of standards by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) incentive programs that governs the use of the electronic health record (EHR) and allows eligible providers and hospitals to earn incentive payments by meeting specific criteria (Baker, 2013, p. 607). This paper will provide an overview of the Meaningful Use program and an analysis of the implications for nurses, nursing, national health policy, patient outcomes and population health associated with the collection and use of Meaningful Use core criteria. This paper will include an overview of Meaningful Use, Analysis, Meaningful Use recommendations and Conclusion.

Muhammed H. (2015) conducted a study to determine the relationship between EHRs and patient safety. According to the researcher, EHRs are healthcare applications that digitize patient information and clinical workflows. It may be considered as a data repository that stores patient data, and assists providers by providing reference information and recommendations for care. Furthermore it enables providers to electronically place orders and consolidate clinical notes across hospital departments. The results showed that about 70% of hospitals in PA adopted advanced EHRs since 2012 and there has been a 27% decline in patient safety events

To provide a positive impact on the lives of patients (Fuchs, 2014) based on the care that was rendered to them, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented an incentive program in the year of 2011 and provided bonuses to eligible providers (EP) that displayed a meaningful aspect by way of technology, by using electronic health records (EHR). The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Meaningful Use program and an analysis of the implications for nurses. Also, in this paper additional recommendations for Meaningful Use will be discussed.

Meaningful use is the utilization of electronic medical records in an aim to achieve a higher level of patient care, that focuses on decreasing health disparities by improving the overall safety, increasing the efficiency, and surpassing the current quality of present-day healthcare. Meaningful use is accomplishing these goals by focusing on improving the coordination of care amongst interdisciplinary teams and other providers, ensuring adequate privacy and security protections for personal health information, and encouraging patients and their families to play active roles in the care they receive.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) had developed the “Use of Dense Display of Data and Information Design Principles in Primary Care Health Care Information Technology Systems (Virginia)” project, which identified the electronic health records utilization. Key recommendations is to improve the lack of standardized practices, development of process, and share information freely. These reports include core establishments in the EHR aspect in a hospital environment. The development of criteria through these practices, explore the operation of EHRs are crucial. Plus, some basic steps in utilizing IT systems would be to deliver safe, effective, and efficient care.

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.

The definition of ‘Meaningful Use’ is using the certified electronic health record technology to help improve quality, safety, efficiency, and it also ensures the privacy and security protection for personal health information. It can also improve the care coordination along with improve population and public health. In order to achieve Meaningful Use and avoid penalties, the providers must follow a certain set of criteria for the Electronic Health Records. If you care for patients with Medicare, or Medicaid then you may qualify for the Meaningful Use Program.

The goals put into place have to be practical, which would prove to the public that it is possible for their safety to become a priority. Moreover, the cons about Electronic Health Records can be reduced with further research. Patient safety and medical errors are factors that concern the public; therefore, researching to collect more information to better the two factors would assure patients to feel much safer (Brown, Shaw, Grimm, Muttitt, and Gebran, 2008). In order to face the factors affecting the uptake of EHRs performance, a research study with quantitative and qualitative methods should be conducted (Brown, Shaw, Grimm, Muttitt, and Gebran, 2008). Researching EHRs can help discover things that the government or other health care organizations were not aware of prior to introducing the equipment. Therefore, with the aid of further research, current and future findings can be

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).

As technology continues to evolve so does the need for healthcare facilities to continually maintain a higher level of competence that runs parallel to electronic and scientific advancement. Comparatively, the structure of hi-tech facilities, such as medical centers and clinics prepared with new amenities has enhanced the industry scale of communities by working in the healthcare arena. Likewise, technological innovations which help diagnose a variety of infections and disorders has helped in assisting patients in receiving increased quality care. As a result, patient care as a whole has positively been affected within the last decade. Furthermore, it only make sense that more personalized and precise problem-solving methods and

This paper will identify the use of Electronic Health Records and how nursing plays an important role. Emerging in the early 2000’s, utilizing Electronic Health Records have quickly become a part of normal practice. An EHR could help prevent dangerous medical mistakes, decrease in medical costs, and an overall improvement in medical care. Patients are often taking multiple medications, forget to mention important procedures/diagnoses to providers, and at times fail to follow up with providers. Maintaining an EHR could help tack data, identify patients who are due for preventative screenings and visits, monitor VS, & improve overall quality of care in a practice. Nurse informaticists play an important role in the

EHR has been proposed for a solution to increase the quality of health care. Patients in the United States are receiving recommended medical care, and there have been calls to improve health care quality. Electronic health records (EHRs) has been touted as cost-effective and sustainable solutions for improving quality in medical care. EHR is still controversial and very important topic in health informatics. There is no universally accepted definition for electronic health records. In 2008 National Alliance for Health Information Technology released definition for EHR “An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that can be created, gathered, managed and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within one healthcare

In today’s medical field technology plays a big role when it comes to patient care. Technology is huge when it comes to giving the patient the best type of quality care when they are in the hospital. In the old days people would just write it down on a sheet of paper and record it by hand, which caused mistakes. Now with the Electronic Health Record those mistakes are drastically declining. Statistics have shown that using the Electronic Health Record has lowered Nursing mistakes as well as improved patient care. Our society has progressed through the years and has been introduced with the Electronic Health Record which has drastically improved our health care system. The Electronic Health Record provides great communication between