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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Morgan Administrative Ethics: There are so many issues in today’s society of administration in the health field. As technology progresses more and more issues continue to arise. Among the many issues in current administrative ethics the healthcare field faces today the most common issue that I found in my research is the issue of confidentiality and privacy of the patients. Even more today than there has been before keeping patients records private has become more and more difficult. There
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482 July 14, 2014 General Solution According to Santamaria, Glance, Prentice, and Fielder (2010), “Accurate, rapid and concise, wound documentation is at the core of good wound care” (p. 174). In order to practice efficient, standardized, electronic wound documentation and management, the solution can be discovered in health informatics software and digital wound imaging technology. The focus of health informatics is the patient and the process of care, and the goal is to enhance the quality
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facilities kept their medical records in an area the size of a library. Now, these same medical records can be housed within a single computer. Health care communication technology is a way for providers to better manage and improve on how health care information is stored and transmitted to another provider or facility. The new technology that will allow providers to do this is EMR’s (Electronic Medical Records). Electronic Medical Records (EMR’s) is a form of patient record keeping without all
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III. Security and Privacy Issues of electronic medical records Although it has been around three decades, moving from paper-based to electronic medical records might still face some issues and challenges. These issues can be classified as information use and disclosure; information viruses and errors; secondary use of the information; unauthorized access; and external or internal attacks. Therefore, electronic medical record needs a high level of anonymity, and privacy and security are considered
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Communication Paper HCS/490 Marilyn Serra 2/6/2012 Electronic Medical Records refers to a paperless, digital and computerized system of maintaining patient data, designed to increase the efficiency and reduce documentation errors by streamlining the process. Implementing Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is a complex, expensive investment that has created a demand for Healthcare IT professionals and accounts for a growing segment of the healthcare workforce. Effective implementation of EMR
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Communication Paper “Successful medical encounters require effective communication between the patient and the physician” (American Acadamy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2013, para.1). There are a selected amount of communication modalities, such as e-mail, telephone, and web-based forums that can help support a patient-physician relationship. However, many healthcare industries have implemented the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) because of its many potential benefits to the provider and patient
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Some of these rights are: informed consent, right to refuse treatment, advance directives, confidentiality, and information security. The American Hospital Association’s Patient Care Partnership (formerly the Patient Bill of Rights): http://www.aha.org/advocacy-issues/communicatingpts/pt-care-partnership.shtml Autonomy provides the basis for informed consent. Consent is required for all care given in a health care facility or
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usage of electronic medical records. I am very familiar with electronic medical records because my aunt is a nurse, and she often tells me stories of events that occur at her hospital due to the inappropriate use of the records. Some of these stories are horror stories, and I am often in disbelief that the issue occurs in the first place. Electronic medical records are digital versions of a paper chart that contains all of a patient’s medical history. Generally, electronic medical records are used
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