Running Head: RBDT Task 1

RBDT1 Task 1

A. The healthcare industry has dramatically changed over the past 10 years where even the federal government has honed in on how healthcare costs are managed. Healthcare Informatics has introduced a whole new era of electronic support systems in how health care records are stored and the people that manage them. This combination of people and systems are vital to the industry standards and how companies across the United States will utilize them to manage electronic health records in and out of clinical settings. Healthcare records at the majority of clinics in the U.S. are currently stored on paper and not electronically, which can create inefficiencies with labor, care and actual timeliness to transfer care from one office to another. Specialty doctors normally require information from primary care physician offices to continue care on patients that are much needed. Computerized physician order entry is an extremely important part of the process when it comes to launching an EMR system. The capabilities of using this type of order entry will allow physicians to enter and record accurate patient medications and diagnoses necessary for treatment of each of their individual patients. Another great capability of upcoming EMR systems is the ability of physicians to use voice recognition software that will allow them enter information from medication to diagnoses and findings verbally. There is a wide variety of EMR systems that can be utilized and maintained by one or two IT professionals in both large and small clinical settings. Utilizing a system that allows physicians to record health information will cut back on costs that occur from errors or wait time when medical records are being requested from other offices or hospitals. Medication reconciliation comes close to physician order entry but is a huge area that has a