national electronic health care system that would keep medical records safe in the event of a natural disaster (Walker, 2005). I will examine the challenges my healthcare facility has faced in achieving the goals of this mandate, and what future plans are in place. In 2004 President George Bush created an executive order that would lay the foundation for a new health information technology infrastructure. This infrastructure would help improve health care quality, reduce medical errors, and
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Electronic Medical Records Megan Granger HCS/320 March 4, 2012 Lynn Belle What is Electronic Medical Records With the technology created, paper-based medical records have entered the state of existence. According to “Electronic Medical Records” (2005), “A patient record system is a type of clinical information system, which is dedicated to collecting, storing, manipulating, and making available clinical information important to the delivery of patient care. The central focus of such systems
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Henkels Patient Privacy Patient privacy has been a major issue within the healthcare field for many years. With the increasing use of medical information technology more and more people are being authorized to view patient health information. Not only do physicians and nurses have access; but this has broadened to include allied health professionals, billing specialists, quality assurance employees, social workers, medical records technicians etc... (Pendrak & Ericon, 1998). All of these healthcare
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CPHQ Administrative Ethics In administrative health care today, there are constant occurrences of ethical issues in the everyday behaviors. As health care administrators, we have responsibilities to ourselves, the organization, the patients, and our employees. The increasing information technology, which is the future, can be an ethical concern to administrators of the confidentiality of information on patients. Confidential information is private or privileged information, and should be that
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Paper Houston is home to one of the largest medical centers in the world that strictly uses Electronic Medical Records. With a medical center of this size patient privacy and confidentiality is extremely import and a constantly evolving aspect of health care. Since 2010 The Texas Medical Center has had 5 major breaches of security resulting in the unauthorized access to over 50,000 patients. According to the American Medical Association's (AMA) Council on Ethical and Judicial
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everyone with any involvement in the health care field; although those affected the most were those involved through the administrative process. The administrative process became filled with new standards and requirements for the transmission of electronic health care information (Highmark, 2011). The enactment of the HIPAA law was designed to protect patients and their private health information known as PHI. Even though the intention was to improve the health care system while saving money it
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few. With these different jobs and countless employees in the medical profession, there are plenty of patients to be cared for because everyone needs medical attention no matter if it is a broken arm or getting a tooth pulled, health care is a necessity. Patients come to the physician because of a problem that they are having and with that notion they are prepared to give full details of their problem. Giving information to the medical staff is a process that has to be done in order to know what
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health care information hotlines where patients can receive information with out seeing a provider but the most important new development in the health care related communication are the electronic medical record (EMR). Over the course of the paper I will discuss benefits to the patients, how important confidentiality is when using EMR’s, why EMR’s are an effective means of communication between the providers and patients, how this mode of communication differs from other methods, and how the media
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Jeinnie Avera Communication Paper Communication and health care are two very important things that go together. In this communication paper I will be explaining different methods of using the electronic medical records. When using electronic medical records this helps keep track of all the patients health records, and this has become a huge part of communication with the patient and physician. Recording information on paper has been the method of life for years and it is slowly being replaced by using
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IV. Legal Aspects of EHR Considering the error reduction and availability of records worldwide, physicians in hospitals and other facilities have rapidly adopted electronic health records. At the same token, many have been served with subpoenas and lawsuits as well due to legality issues with patient information safety of digital records. Via implementation of laws and acts set forth by the government, everyone has been alerted to treat patient’s privacy with utmost safety. One such act is the
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