Running head: HSA520 ARTICLE SUMMARY WEEK 6 Article Summary HIPAA INFORMATION SERIES HIPAA 101 For Health Care Providers’ Offices Article Summary The value of health care information exchange and interoperability Walker, J., Pan, E., Johnston, D., Adler-Milstein, J., Bates, D., Middleton, B., The value of health care information exchange and interoperability. Health Affairs: The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere, Web Exclusive, Jan. 19, 2005. Accessed Jan
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implementing them in an effort to reduce healthcare costs over time. That is where healthcare informatics comes into effect. According to Health Services Research Information Central, the definition of health informatics is, “the interdisciplinary study of the design, development, adoption, and application of IT-based innovations in healthcare services delivery, management, and planning.” Healthcare informatics is used to gather, analyze, and interpret data and information about patients and treatments
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Meaningful Use Information Technology in Healthcare Mohammad Ali Torabi Meaningful Use In 2009 president Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, which is also known as ObamaCare, into law. ObamaCare is a national health care plan, which its main goal is to reform the American health care system so that every citizen would be insured by the year 2014. Healthcare providers are overwhelmed by the amount of patients they visit everyday due to the shortage of doctors we are having. One article from
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One of the many things that caught my attention during the clinical observation was how important safety practices are when working in a healthcare environment. Healthcare today is known to be highly complex, high risk and error prone (Kizer & Blum, 2009). Safety practices not only apply to healthcare practitioners, but also to patient care. Patient care is particularly important as errors and unfavorable event could be a leading cause of death and injury. One observation of safety practices healthcare
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Electronic Medical Records Jacynthia Mcgill-Rice HCS/440 July 13, 2013 University of Phoenix Pamela Cromity, Instructor Abstract Emergency systems improve the quality of care, save money, and improve efficiency using familiar research technology for the health care industry. Larry Weed an amazing visionary physician who in the 1960’s, stated that health care providers should
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Communication Paper Debbra Piatt HCS490 January 7, 2014 Sherri Williams Communication Paper The new form of Medical records are the Electronic medical records or the EMR which are paperless forms of the patients’ (The Future of EMR's Forecasting HIPPA's Evolution and Implementation, 2012) medical records. This form of medical records are digital and computerized systems of keeping and maintaining the patient’s personal and medical information. The EMR system is designed to increase the efficiency
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Administrative Ethics Paper The journal article that I chose is about a case of privacy and confidentiality of health care employees in New Zealand and not the United States. Its relevancy though is just as important here as it was in New Zealand. New Zealand has a Privacy Act similar to the United States’ HIPAA. The article “Privacy, employees and human resources: a case report” (Mair, 2011) documents the release of an employee’s medical records to his employer, a New Zealand hospital and the
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Evolution of Health Care Information Systems There has been a very fast growth in the U.S. health care system since the early 1980s with regard to the information technology related to health care. This can be viewed as an attempt towards the standardization of the fragmented health care system. Information technology like in every other field of life has become a necessity even in the health care system and is covered by the federal regulations. The implementation of the Electronic Health Records
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Care Made Easy ABC consultants have been assigned the task to introduce a solution to make health care delivery easier and more user-friendly for this organization. Health care delivery is in a constant state of flux and is ever changing. Technological advancements continue to push the industry and the demand from consumers for a faster, smarter, and economical product. The request for uncomplicated and more complete health care delivery can be at your fingertips with the introduction of Care made
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Health-information technology, such as sophisticated electronic health records, has the potential to improve health care.1-3 Nevertheless, electronic-records systems have been slow to become part of the practices of physicians in the United States.4,5 To date, there have been no definitive national studies that provide reliable estimates of the adoption of electronic health records by U.S. physicians. Recent estimates of such adoption by physicians range from 9 to 29%.4,5 These percentages were derived
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