Unit 2: Real World Case
Theressa Forstein
Kaplan University

HI300-01

Unit 2: Real World Case
The physicians are attempting to create more accessibility to patient information. For example, by having the same EHR as the hospital the physicians would be able to view laboratory results or radiological records rather than wait for results to be sent to them (Sayles, 2013). This creates a quicker response of care to the patients. Additionally, by this exchange of data, providing the ability to create orders in an instant for their patients admitted to the hospital. A disadvantage would be the potential cost to the affiliated physicians to acquire the same EHR, although, the concept of cloud computing is an option (Sayles, 2013). Another drawback of acquiring the same EHR is being compatible with the systems currently in place, such as a stand-alone system for prescribing medications.
The physicians are unable to send a medication order because the standalone device used by those physicians is not compatible with the hospitals’ current HIS system. …show more content…
This is known as the document imaging management system (DIMS) and allowed clinicians to continue to use the paper documents but yet save the documents to a computer file (Sayles, 2013). COLD feeding stands for computer output to computer disk and signifies that images from unconnected systems are able to be captured, scanned, and shown on computer monitors (Sayles, 2013). This is part of the electronic report management (ERM) system. Point-of-care (POC) data entry is the process of entering data into a computer program at the point of contact with the patient. This information can be either structured, such as using a template, or unstructured, for example, typed data. Although all three of these types of data are from different sources they can all be input into the computer by use of scanning