| |Objective/ Vision |Objective of this project is to leverage paperless hospital service where patient need not do any paper-work |…
The mission of the Veterans Health Administration (VAMC) in Chillicothe, Ohio is to provide exceptional care and to be the provider of choice for all Veterans (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2013). It is necessary for the leaders of the VAMC to have an active marketing and business plan to increase the number of veterans served. Marketing and planning are essential to having resources to meet the future needs of the organization. One planning method to use is the use of the “4 P’s” of marketing. The four P’s consist of price, placement, product and promotion all of which are essential for organizations to evaluate when planning. This paper reviews how the “4 P’s” evaluation of the VAMC can improve the delivery of services to veterans.…
Electronic medical records are the future of health care. Information is the staple of any health care facility and the ability to speed up a process can only help provide efficient medical care. While we study and see what it takes to implement medical records and its structure in order to provide and organize a patient’s medical information to a medical facility. Implementing electronic medical records in long-term care will help make medical records accessible and efficient for a medical facility while also improving the quality of care for patients. Electronic records have…
Productivity is just the starting point with an increase in staff retention and satisfaction. The efficiency in which documentation can be retrieved and documented with little to no errors is important in health care. Physicians will have access to data such…
“a paperless, digital and computerized system of maintaining patient data, designed to increase the efficiency and reduce documentation errors by streamlining the process.”(Santiago, n.d., para. 1)…
Having recently transitioned from paper to electronic format, Dr. Whetmen’s facility uses McKesson, the company from which his hospital purchased healthcare information technology (HIT) and electronic health record (EHR) software. McKesson's Emergency Department software utilizes templates from the gold standard in paper documentation, the T System. Problem driven, a chart that is specific to the patient's presenting complaint is generated. This allows the physician to circle or line out relevant information that would be pertinent to most patients with that presentation. There is also room to enter further text. In other words, McKesson contracted with T-System to use their templates as electronic health records. Simply clicking once circles (a second click changes to backslash) the desired documentation on the electronic template. If someone should wish to view a patient’s health records a user name and password are required to access the computer. Another user name and password, unique to the person entering information, are then required to access the patient's record. Different personnel have permission to only access and/or modify the record, based on their particular job description. Besides identification data, all Medical Personnel (EMTs/Paramedics, Nurses, Physicians) who access the chart can enter Past Medical History, Past Surgical History, Medications, Allergies, Social History, as well as the Presenting Complaint and Vital Signs that were measured. The record reflects who entered/modified the information. To assure that the information is…
Many Health care facilities are in various transitional states in regards to implementing electronic health records. Many health care facilities have hybrid records. Hybrid health records are part paper and part electronic record. A patient’s health information has to be tracked in multiple formats and stored in multiple places. Documents can remain on paper while others parts of the record are electronic in a hybrid health record system. This system can be a challenge because the patients records must be use both paper and electronic processes to determine which information components, electronic reports, and files ought to wind up part of the legitimate electronic health record. They should likewise archive where the data in the record is…
Translate and define the following abbreviations. In a short paragraph, share what you would consider the most important aspect of each.…
Over the last 20 years dramatic changes have occurred in the health care industry. “Health care technology has exploded over the last 20 years, not just in the arena of medical diagnosis and treatment, but also in the area of health information and documentation” (The art of patient care, 2008, p. 1).…
References: Beitsch, L.M., Brooks, R.G., Grigg, M., and Menachemi, N. (2004). Structure and functions of…
Many families across the United States are spending more and more time receiving unpleasant medical testing, chemotherapy treatments, and long waits to see the doctor. What is the most troubling is that many of these families cannot afford the healthcare costs they encounter. Healthcare has become crucial in defining our quality of life. Without proper healthcare many people are not able to maintain a high quality of life. Many families are making crucial choices in regards to paying the rent, buying food, or buying their medicine he/she needs.…
Healthcare services require compensation so our access to healthcare in the United States is certainly influenced by our economy. This access is very limited for the uninsured because of the extreme high costs of healthcare services and medications. According to the Social Security Advisory Board, health care spending is increasing at a more rapid rate than are earnings for workers and their families (Social Security Advisory Board, 2009). Also, healthcare premiums have increased at a much greater rate than inflation (Divino, 2008). Many Americans are unable to obtain health insurance because it is not provided to them by their employers and/or it is too expensive. Medical bills can easily become overwhelming causing both financial and…
With the vast growth in the healthcare population and medical technology over recent decades, patient health care as well as medical records continue to become more complex and require a more efficient means of data collection and abstraction amongst healthcare providers. In addition, ensuring efficient communication between various health care professionals has become a tedious task in providing high quality care and safety in health care. Paper medical records has become to encounter many obstacles in efforts to keep up with today’s broad and complex health care system and medical technology as well as efforts to maintain cost effectiveness.…
As we all know the amount of documentation we have to provide for our patients is more and more every year. The reasons as we all know are mainly lawsuit and medical malpractice driven in conjunction with more and more state as well as federal rules and regulations. Having progress notes, assessments, and consults, diagnostic imaging studies and most importantly M.D. orders in a typed easy to read format will cut down on these potential errors drastically by being able to read and interpret them without question. Also, by being able to read the information that is now typed with ease; if there is a further need of clarification to be questioned, it will be recognized and addressed much quicker than previously.…
There are many hospital departments, staffed by a wide variety of healthcare professionals, with some crossover between departments. For example, physiotherapists often work in different departments and doctors often do the same, working on a general medical ward as well as an intensive or coronary care unit. Each department tends to be overseen by consultants in that specialty with a team of junior medical staff under them who are also interested in that specialty.…
