Patient Centric Systems : Patients

Hence, I believe that the health IT is essential to transform the delivery of health care. Now, America’s health care providers and data users have made a huge improvement in expanding health information technology use. This improvement ensures data user 's safety when they exchange information electronically to one another.

Health information technology (HIT) is revolutionizing the way we interact with health-related data. One example of this is the obvious rise in

In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) were passed by the Obama legislation to try and improve healthcare for Americans by reducing costs and improving quality. The ARRA is commonly known as the ‘stimulus package’. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) act was part of the ARRA to help improve our country’s infrastructure. HITECH supports electronic health records– meaningful use (EHR-MU) which is led by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). HITECH allocated over $27 billion in funds to help encourage the healthcare industry in

Background: The Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) identified five goals for adopting health information technology (HIT) into the current health care systems that would significantly improve healthcare in America. (Abdelhak, Grostick, & Hanken, 2012, p. 82) These goals will help improve the quality of care within the federal health system by reducing medical errors, cost, and duplication of workload.

"Health information technology can be used to study or improve care coordination and its patient-centeredness. More pointedly, HIT provides an opportunity to organize disparate data sources into one cohesive, patient-centered record" (Steichen & Gregg, 2015, p. 34). With its ability to rapidly share health care information such as care plans and discharge summaries, clinical staff can make more timely decisions. Families will also be prompted to be more involved in the patient care due to the availability of current information and resources. There is no doubt that health care is evolving, and technology is creating new ways for us to stay connected, which is essential for successful care coordination.

Health information technology (HIT) involves trading of health information in an electronic format to advance health care, reduce health expenditures, improve work efficiency, decrease medication errors, and make health care more accessible. Maintaining privacy and security of health information is crucial when technology is involved. Health information exchange plays an important role in improving the quality and delivery of health care and cost-effectiveness. “There is very little electronic information sharing among clinicians, hospitals, and other providers, despite considerable investments in health information technology (IT) over the past five years” (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2014, p. 1).

The implementation of meaningful use has only improved the healthcare system. Even though to become eligible for meaningful use varies slightly between hospitals, and the physician’s office the goals are the same. To improve the healthcare world through capturing, and sharing data. Once the majority of practices use meaningful use the healthcare world will become more user friendly, enabling Physicians, Pharmacist, and Hospitals to communicate a patient’s record without the wait of it being faxed or emailed.

According to the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS), “Personal health records (PHRs) are consumer-centric tools that individuals can use to communicate with their health care providers to manage their own health and health care” (as cited in Kim & Nahm, 2012). Moreover, it is the patient who controls, updates, reviews data and information that is entered into the PHRs, except when an integrated PHR-EHR system is involved. There are barriers to employing a PHR such as data accuracy and data privacy and security.

Exploring the option of the patient portal, there were many benefits that would be helpful to the patient’s lifestyle including prescription refills and the patient being involved with the treatment process increasing the relationship between the patient and their physician (Medical Economics, 2015 & Advanced Data Systems Corporation [ADSC], 2011). But among these benefits there were various challenges that outweighed the good that the patient portal would do for patients and health professionals using it. Some of these challenges included advanced medical jargon and obsession of a patient record (Advanced Data Systems Corporation [ADSC], 2011). For these reasons among others listed earlier in the paper, we decided that the patient portal would not be a good fit for the funding as it could potentially cause harm to the patient’s mental health and the unexpected flaws with the system could cause a headache for the providers using it to keep up with the progress of their patients.

Different works found in the literature address research questions regarding the function of clinical decision support systems, its usage among healthcare providers, the role on improving care and reducing costs, the impact of design and usability interface, along with adoption of clinical practice guidelines in theses systems and the adherence of providers to the recommendations generated by them (Anderson & Willson, 2008; Bright et al., 2012; Piscotty & Kalisch, 2014). A systematic review by Bright and colleagues (2012) aimed at evaluating the effect of CDSSs on clinical outcomes, workload and efficiency, cost, provider use, implementation, patient

Enid Montague supports that HIT technology manages medical information for not only the patients but for the health care providers as well, he states that healthcare challenges can be solved more effectively with more patient engagement. Technology allows the patients to better manage their care plans, providing feedback to their healthcare providers (Montague, 2014). When the patient provides more involvement with their health records then this provides patient-centered communication. The Journal of Communication and Healthcare team state the following, " We propose that patient centered communication is at the heart of delivering patient-centered care and that HIT applications that support patient-centered communication are most likely to result in improved outcomes for patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers" (Rutten, 2014, p. 255). HIT facilitates the distribution of a patient’s medical record to all healthcare providers, thus they are provided accurate diagnosis and

The Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) is used by health professionals to help and improve the process of enhancing health care decisions to improve the quality of patient care. Under the approval of American Recovery and Reinvestment, there are many healthcare technologies are being into use such as Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE). CDSS is often integrated into EHR systems to manage clinical data and assist with clinical decision making with pertinent clinical knowledge and information and a variety of CDSS tools such as alerts for drug interactions, patient allergies and reminders for preventive care in the clinical work flow. CDSS are expanding in the health care setting and have been integrated with Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE). Both work to integrate advanced clinical decision support.

Clinical decision-support systems (CDSS) apply best-known medical knowledge to patient data for the purpose of generating case-specific decision-support advice. CDSS forms the cornerstone of health informatics research and practice. It is an embedded concept in almost all major clinical information systems and plays an instrumental role in helping health care achieve its ultimate goal: providing high quality patient care while, at the same time, assuring patient safety and reducing costs. This computer based systems designed to impact clinician decision making about individual patients at the point in time that these decisions are made. If used properly, CDSS have the potential to change the way medicine has been taught and

The field of Health Information Technology (HIT) came into light with the mandatory installation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) as part of the HITECH act. HIT is defined as “the overarching term applied to various information and communication technologies used to collect, transmit, display, or store patient data” [Add reference ‘Defn

Having a single view of the patient and their treatment and recovery plan is invaluable in ascertaining which are the most and least effective tactics in treatment. The 360-degree view of the patient and the many processes supporting them is crucial for increasing the accuracy, effectiveness and performance of treatment programs over time (Blakeman, 1985). Computerized management systems are critical for organizing, analyzing and translating the massive amount of data captured on patients, treatment and recovery processes, and the use of supporting IT systems to optimize patient health and organizational provider performance (Peshek, Cubera, Gleespen, 2010). The ability to aggregate and intelligently use all available data, information, patient-based and process-generated data to deliver higher levels of quality care is possible when computerized management systems are used throughout healthcare organizations.