The Pros And Cons Of Using Electronic Health Records

The purpose of this paper is to review and summarize the literature on the pros and cons of electronic health record systems. This paper describes the many benefits of electronic health record systems, which include but are not limited to, less paperwork, increased quality of care, financial incentives, and increased efficiency and productivity. Organizational outcomes and societal benefits are also addressed. Despite the tremendous amount of benefits, studies in the literature highlight potential disadvantages of electronic health record systems. These disadvantages include privacy and security concerns, identity theft, data loss, financial issues, and changes in workflow, involving a temporary loss of productivity. Preventative measures that can be taken are addressed as well. Overall, people believe that the benefits of electronic health records can be realized when they are used correctly, and proper measures are taken to reduce any potential drawbacks.

In the modern world technology is everywhere and it affects everyone’s daily life. People are constantly attached to cell phones, laptops, and other electronics, which all have affected how people live their lives. Technology is also a large part of the healthcare system today. There are many electronics and technologies that are used in health care, such as electronic health record, medication bar code scanning, electronic documentation, telenursing, and there are many more forms of technology that impact nursing. One technology that stands out is the electronic health record. The electronic health record, also referred to as EHR, is an electronic version of a patient’s chart, and it contains is a list of the patient’s current medications, allergies, laboratory results, diagnoses, immunization dates, images, treatments, and medical history (“Learn EHR Basics,” 2014). The purpose of the electronic health record is to have a patient’s health care record available to health care providers nationwide, but the patient can decide who has access to their record (Edwards, Chiweda, Oyinka, McKay, & Wiles, 2011). The electronic health record is a very important technology in health care and it impacts nurses, nursing care, and has a significant impact on patient outcomes.

When a person heads to a hospital because they are feeling ill and wish to seek medical attention, quality of care may not be the first thought on their mind. They are pre-occupied with their ailment and may not give thought to the person checking them in or the person taking their weight and height. All of these minor but important actions are part of a much larger picture. They all contribute significantly to the importance of clinical information systems (referred to as CIS) and the effect it has on healthcare quality. The public depends on healthcare providers to help heal them and healthcare providers depend on CIS to help them heal the public.

The major change from traditional systems to electronic record systems in the healthcare field within the last couple decades has made a huge impact. Patient records, risk management, planning, staff, and more in the organization are affected by the IT staff. “The penetration of Internet access, mobile technologies and social networks collectively offer a future in which it is possible to deliver highly personalized care without necessarily having to do it in person, or even with a doctor.”(Healthcare IT News, n.d.) Many hospitals use paper records for patients long after electronic record technology was available. According to forbes.com in an article published two years ago, less than 2 percent of all healthcare organizations within the United States had and properly deployed information systems.

According to a survey from SK&A, after an initial migration to health IT solutions, practice owners’ adoption of electronic health records (EHR) has plateaued with only about a 2.8% increase from January 2014 to January 2015.

Medical records comprises of a patients treatment history and relevant value information’s about a patients, the records provide written proof of a patients medical life over time. Such private and important informations should be securely kept and highly restricted. The storing and easily accessing of medical records is a very important part of managing in healthcare .Most healthcare organizations and providers are custodians of such records, and they keep this records either through the traditional paper recording system method or the revolutinalized computer based system called Electronic Halth Record System (EHR), or even used both methods of record keeping. Although the electronic health record is efficient and valued more than the

Electronic Health Records (EHR) become the promise of faster, better and more coordinated health care and this promise became a regulatory requirement for health care providers. The problems with paper medical records have been changed into new and different problems with EHRs. Many hidden factors affect the security and usability of EHRs. The goal of EHR is better clinical outcomes, improved population health, enhanced transparency and better efficiency in healthcare. However, the ethical use of EHR is dependent on its clinical users (Iyer, Leone, & Zapotochny Rufo, 2015). Today hospitals and providers settings have grown wired and dependence on the electronic creation, transmission and storage of data has increased. Many users who access the medical information has little knowledge about computers and have little intuition toward security practices such as logging off or locking the

Good Afternoon ladies and gentleman! I appreciate not only your time but your commitment to the implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR). As a recap from our last meeting, hard and soft ROI represents various benefits which can be included and used in an ROI analysis. The hard benefits are the direct benefits which are tied to the impact of implementing the proposed solution. Soft benefits on the other hand are less easy to quantify and rely on. Soft benefits are often referred to as indirect, because they rely on a number of steps in order for the benefit to be realized. Today we will focus on the soft benefits of adopting Electronic Health Records.

Choosing to adopt the electronic health record (EHR) system requires planning and gaining knowledge about vendors in order to make an evidence-based decision before the selection and implementation process (Gleason, November/December 2014). It can eliminate the use of unnecessary technology and services that have created risk management and quality issues. With the EHR adoption, it can bring challenges and opportunities to existing processes by reducing costs and improving the efficiency for healthcare organizations like Bethany Place in order to inhere in operating more effectively in an effort of increasing the quality of care provided to the patient to achieve better medical outcomes (Cascardo, March/April 2014).

Pamela, we use EPIC at my place of work and it does have  many advantages. A patient's record can be accessed quickly from another hospital which eliminates unnecessary tests, and ensure continuity of care.Clinicians can put orders in on patients from anywhere they can have access to a computer or cell service. Orders are more clarified now as there is no need to try and decipher what a physician is ordering as most healthcare facilities have moved away from paper charting to Electronic Health Record (EHR). The HITECH Act provided money to providers and and organizations to encourage use of the electronic health record (EHR) (Masters, 2017, p. 304). We as nurse will have to sharpen our skills in informatics as all healthcare facilities strive

What is Electronic Health Records (EHR), computerized form of a patient’s medical chart. With electronic health records patient’s data is available at a click of a key to any authorized users. Medical staff are able to access medical and treatment histories of patients from a system which is designed to go beyond clinical data collection in any medical facility. Electronic health records contain a patient’s diagnosis, current and non-current medications, medical history, immunization dates, treatment plans, radiology in images, allergies and laboratory test results. Electronic health records allow physicians evidence based tools which are used to make decisions in regards to patients care or method of treatment.

This paper supports my opinions of electronic health records (EHRs) its quality methods, examination, and all its efforts in achieving meaningful use of health information technology in effort to improve the quality of health care. Present schemes of quality measurements usually rely on claims focused on administrative records, which can be unsuitable for use in quality measurements because they are frequently and partially a refection of care practices and patient outcomes. Quality measures ought to provide well timed, plausible, inclusive, clinically valid, and meaningful feedback to doctors, and their clinicians. These measurement characteristics are needed to manage and support meaningful improvements in delivery of health care, patient

The world in which we live in is constantly changing and evolving as we speak. It is now the age of the electronics and not the physical aspect of writing. Instead, everyone from young kids to adults have some sort of access to an electronic device as it is the new way of communicating and gathering information. That is why as the times are changing everyone should be up to date. This leads me to explain the idea that Health informatics is important and that it should be taken seriously as it will help make everything more organized and much more efficient especially in the health aspect where there are a lot of files that need to be organized and kept safe and secured. Applying electronic health records in Canada is a great stepping

First of all, I want to say that I really enjoyed reading your post, and I think that you have chosen one of the best topics. You have mentioned some points that caught my attention. We know from the beginning Dr. Michael is challenged with paper work, and the recent installation of electronic medical records. He was undecided whether she should switch Electronic Medical Recording or keep use paper to record patients’ information. After her investigation, she decided to switch EMR. Personally, I think Dr. Michael made a mistake by switching to EMR. In medicine, patient information is very important. If we analyze the Electronic Medical Recording, I believe its negative side will outweigh its advantages. Confidentiality of patients’

It is important to understand that patients are very happy and satisfied when it comes to the electronic health system. This paper will discuss some of the benefits of an electronic health system that patients are enjoying.