HMS (healthcare management systems) and EMRs (electronic medical records) have been widely praised as significantly adding to patient safety and quality of care. They can permit healthcare institutions to keep more accurate databases on patients, all in one location, and can ensure that a patient’s full medical records are available, even if the patient is not responsive and the patient’s family is not available. Prior treatments, current and past medications, and patient allergies can all be easily accessed with a point and a click. But transitioning to such healthcare systems is not always without issues and often… Continue Reading...
Patient portals, electronic medical records, and personal monitoring devices are three of the most revolutionary technologies in the healthcare sector. Each of these technologies presents patients with the potential to empower themselves, taking control of their own healthcare outcomes, and taking part in their overall healthcare goals. These technologies also streamline healthcare administration and minimize medication and billing errors. However, each of these technologies is also constrained by a range of issues related to accessibility, with potent socioeconomic class disparities evident. Security and standardization of healthcare technologies are also proving problematic. Patient portals,… Continue Reading...
Assistants (AAMA) states that medical assistants must hold to legal concepts by: maintaining confidentiality, preparing and maintaining medical records, practicing within their capabilities' and training's scope, using proper guidelines during information release, documenting accurately, etc.
4. Several administrative responsibilities of medical assistants are connected with legal requirements. Insurance billing formalities, surgery patients' consent forms, and correspondence (e.g., physician's service withdrawal letter) should be handled appropriately for meeting legal standards.
5. Doctors are mandated by law to maintain confidentiality of patient information. Thus, all patient health-related information must be discussed in private with patients. Coworkers must only be communicated such information when appropriate. Continue Reading...
is another viable strategy that the organization can employ to reduce the operating expenses. This option involves upgrading the company information systems and integrating electronic medical records. This strategy will assist Burn Care Unit to record a significant costs savings because the organization will perform the large volume of operations with fewer resources. Moreover, the strategy will improve the efficiencies of nurses, and enhances the organization quality of care. The EHRs will assist the organization to realize costs savings from a reduction in transcription services, a reduction in pulling paper charts, and eliminating the paper medical records. The system will also allow the nurses to create a template for ordering medications and type in notes.… Continue Reading...
achieving a zero error. With this, client satisfaction will be realized. At the core of this is the electronic medical records (EHR) which is representative of all the health information of an individual that is available in a database and can be shared across healthcare service providers (Rouse, 2016). Also integral to this system are two components; mobile health (mHealth) and telehealth (telemedicine). Though the two are interconnected, they have a slight difference. Telehealth includes home monitoring of health conditions through desktops, laptops and other online material (Terry, 2016), while mobile health is restricted to mobile devices.
Considering the impact of electronic medical records (EHR), it is the best… Continue Reading...
Due to the security and stability of blockchain technology, it can be suitable for medical records, identity management, voting, food traceability, and recording of events. Serving in its initial stages as a public transaction ledger for bitcoin, it has led to innovations and creations of companies specializing in blockchain technology.
Status of Block-Chain Technology
The current status of block-chain technology revolves around digital currency. Although blockchain technology can be used for medical records and a slew of other processes, currently, it is seeing growth in the domain of digital currency. Digital currency has become popular because it is backed not by a bank, but… Continue Reading...
basic tasks, and therefore the roles of nurses become very important. Nurses keep medical records for the patients and therefore give medications to the patients in time and monitor their progress.
Another important role of the nurse is assessing the response of the patients to medications. Keep the records for the progress of patients is an invaluable practice. The records help the nurses to monitor how the patients are responding to the treatments. The treatment process involves making multiple decisions. The nurses are responsible for interpreting patient's information and help the physicians to make important decisions. The patients benefit from the nurses because… Continue Reading...
health care. The findings from the study show that it is essential to handle medical records with care to uphold the health of the patient. The patient education is one of the elements that reduce medical errors. Literate patients can help nurses follow medical procedures when the number of patients that nurses handle is large. Clearly, the errors have a cost implication and therefore the need to introduce measures to prevent the errors in the hospital. Often, medical errors cause the increase in the patient readmissions and lawsuits when the implications of the errors are severe. The solutions to medical errors depend on decisions… Continue Reading...
bringing down costs associated with obtaining healthcare. This is more so the case with centralized medical records made possible by HIT. The said centralization of medical records could, for instance, eliminate duplication (i.e. multiple tests and medications being prescribed by different doctors). In addition to easing electronic transactions, to the convenience of patients, HIT also enhances patient access to their medical records, and thus better information regarding follow-up care.
2. How does U.S. HIT compare with that of other advanced nations? What contributes to this?
In the developed world, the U.S., in general, compares poorly with other nations as far as the embrace and implementation… Continue Reading...
and data sharing in the cloud. Owing to the espousal and increased use of electronic medical records, there are opportunities of organizations experiencing loss of data or loss of other sensitive information. The utilization of cloud services offers a fitting solution to this issue and at the same time facilitates faster transference of data between parties (Morrow, 2016).
Financial Decision-Making
Opportunity cost is defined as what would be generated or earned on the subsequent best use of the assets. Opportunity cost is a significant concept in capital budget because it is a cost that does not essentially encompass the use of cash outflows but has… Continue Reading...
