Electronic Medical Records And Confidentiality Issues: Case Study
Electronic Medical Records and Confidentiality Issues
Abstract
Electronic Medical Records save health care facilities thousands of dollars every year, and this accounts for the cost of the electronic system itself! Major disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans Louisiana, showcase the benefits of the electronic medical record system. Electronic medical records are stored throughout the country so that if a tragic/unplanned event occurred, it won’t destroy the health care structure. Benefits of such a system is the time it saves to provide treatment, lessen adverse prescription errors, creates better communication between multiple clinicians and provides screenings for preventive care.
The Federal government supports and now …show more content…
At this point, the rate of documentation from the bedside takes too long and with system specifications catered to every patient, time spent on documenting will be reduced. Another change will be for institutions to move away from vendor computer software’s, favoring a web based subscription that an institution can subscribe to individually. These web based subscriptions can be specifically chosen to meet the hospitals needs. The vendor’s role would be to create electronic software that can easily be read and transferred by web based software’s. With Federal and State legislations continually updating and altering patient’s privacy rights, the future of patient’s privacy is looking good. While there are some leaks in HIPAA’s system, every year there are updates to patient’s privacy concerns that are disclosed to both institutions and patients. When clinicians and patient’s are aware of the new regulations, it creates an open communication between patients and their physicians. At the end of this, it will produce a better health care treatment for all patients’s which is what electronic medical records were meant to
Abstract
Electronic Medical Records save health care facilities thousands of dollars every year, and this accounts for the cost of the electronic system itself! Major disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans Louisiana, showcase the benefits of the electronic medical record system. Electronic medical records are stored throughout the country so that if a tragic/unplanned event occurred, it won’t destroy the health care structure. Benefits of such a system is the time it saves to provide treatment, lessen adverse prescription errors, creates better communication between multiple clinicians and provides screenings for preventive care.
The Federal government supports and now …show more content…
At this point, the rate of documentation from the bedside takes too long and with system specifications catered to every patient, time spent on documenting will be reduced. Another change will be for institutions to move away from vendor computer software’s, favoring a web based subscription that an institution can subscribe to individually. These web based subscriptions can be specifically chosen to meet the hospitals needs. The vendor’s role would be to create electronic software that can easily be read and transferred by web based software’s. With Federal and State legislations continually updating and altering patient’s privacy rights, the future of patient’s privacy is looking good. While there are some leaks in HIPAA’s system, every year there are updates to patient’s privacy concerns that are disclosed to both institutions and patients. When clinicians and patient’s are aware of the new regulations, it creates an open communication between patients and their physicians. At the end of this, it will produce a better health care treatment for all patients’s which is what electronic medical records were meant to