Ehr Product At The Hospital Case Study
1. What are the physicians trying to accomplish through buying the same EHR product at their hospital? What are the pros and cons?
The Physicians are trying to accomplish a way to make it easier to get all of the patient’s records when they are needed. The benefits of buying the same EHR product are that they can write orders from their practices for patients who are in the hospital. The other benefit is that if there is an emergency or the physician is covering the emergency room they will be able to tap into other providers EHR systems. The disadvantages of having the same EHR systems as the hospital, you may have a compatibility issue with the rest of your software. The vendors may not understand all the needs of the hospital as well as the physicians and what products will work better for them.
2. Why are the physicians unable to send a medication order to the hospital from their e-prescribing device?
The main reason for the separation between the physician and the hospital is that the electronic prescribing device does not work with the clinical pharmacy. They are able to send a prescription to major pharmacy’s put not to smaller ones or to the hospital. This is a good example of not buying systems before the healthcare facility. This is double spending and to some it may be a waste of time. They can …show more content…
One of the first ways that you can help with this is to make data entry easier. The ways that this can be done is by using macros, copy and paste functions, standard orders, and other techniques to reuse data. Comment fields within the data entry fields will help understand exactly what a drop-down menu can’t tell you. It too has its downsides because everyone can see the entries or the data may get lost as well as not being processed on reports. If the major fields such as age, sex, name, date of birth, and allergies can always transfer over then it will eliminate a lot of
The Physicians are trying to accomplish a way to make it easier to get all of the patient’s records when they are needed. The benefits of buying the same EHR product are that they can write orders from their practices for patients who are in the hospital. The other benefit is that if there is an emergency or the physician is covering the emergency room they will be able to tap into other providers EHR systems. The disadvantages of having the same EHR systems as the hospital, you may have a compatibility issue with the rest of your software. The vendors may not understand all the needs of the hospital as well as the physicians and what products will work better for them.
2. Why are the physicians unable to send a medication order to the hospital from their e-prescribing device?
The main reason for the separation between the physician and the hospital is that the electronic prescribing device does not work with the clinical pharmacy. They are able to send a prescription to major pharmacy’s put not to smaller ones or to the hospital. This is a good example of not buying systems before the healthcare facility. This is double spending and to some it may be a waste of time. They can …show more content…
One of the first ways that you can help with this is to make data entry easier. The ways that this can be done is by using macros, copy and paste functions, standard orders, and other techniques to reuse data. Comment fields within the data entry fields will help understand exactly what a drop-down menu can’t tell you. It too has its downsides because everyone can see the entries or the data may get lost as well as not being processed on reports. If the major fields such as age, sex, name, date of birth, and allergies can always transfer over then it will eliminate a lot of