Kaplan University Going Paperless: Electronic Medical Records versus Paper Medical Records “Is it time to make the switch?” Carletta Howard Kaplan University Abstract Making the switch to an electronic medical records system will help to bring forth health care advances with the systems data quality and availability. This research study uses focus groups and surveys to get the opinions of different health care providers and some patients on what they think EMR will do for the health care industry
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Healthcare’s Medical Record Sharing Process’ Technological Effects on Patients School of Advanced Studies‚ University of Phoenix Michelle A. Brantley Dr. Patricia Traynor March 16‚ 2013 Healthcare’s Medical Record Sharing Process’ Technological Effects on Patients Technological advances are making it possible for medical records to be shared among each authorized by medical professional patients interact with. At a first visit a doctor usually wants to see past medical records
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Computerized patient records are one of the newest technologies that the medical field is using. With this technology it’s helping the physicians by being able to see more patients every day other than sitting at a desk filling out paper patient medical records after each patient visit. With the computerized patient records it gives the physician more time to visit with the patients and to see more each day which helps with the patient retention results in the office when it comes to that time
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most Local Community Hospitals without computer generated system is slow. To be able to provide the medical needs of the rapidly growing population‚ Local Community Hospitals must be versatile to the current trends and innovation in today ’s changes in technology. One of the concerns of Local Community Hospitals nowadays is how to lessen the number paper works in having a transaction with the patient that could fasten the process of admission‚ discharging and billing of a patient. This greatly affects
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method of payment for physicians with the Medicare method of payment for hospitals. Medicare reimbursements for physicians and for hospitals have some similarities and have some major differences. In one regard they are the same in the sense providers and hospitals are both federally funded for services and not state funded. Another similarity is that on average they are only given a percentage of the payment from the government leaving sometimes a gap in money from what services truly cost. Where
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Patient Safety Initiatives in the Hospital Setting Introduction Patient safety is described by the US Institute of Medicine as “the freedom from accidental injury due to medical care or from medical error” (Mansour‚ 2012). With that being said‚ patient safety has long been a major issue for hospitals. In the past many patients have been injured during hospital stays‚ some being injured severely with death being the result. With the growing trend of lawsuits‚ hospitals were becoming
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I think patient dehumanization happens because it is hard for the doctor or nurses to see someone suffering. Perhaps it is lack of compassion from patient from patient‚ but I believe that since doctors deal with pain all the time they don’t want to immerse themselves in others pain. I know from personal experience that unless I am feeling the pain for myself it is hard to be sympathetic. My sister has migraines and headaches all the time and all I can say is I am sorry; however‚ when I have a headache
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case is medical record keeping. About 12 percent of healthcare spending goes towards medical recordkeeping. Medical records have been kept in files and folders‚ which causes difficulty in accessing and sharing information. This problem could be maintained with electronic medical systems. 2.) What people organization and technology factors are responsible for the difficulties in building electronic medical record systems? Explain your answer. Building an electronic medical record (EMR)
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Medical marijuana refers to the use of the Cannabis plant as a physician-recommended herbal therapy. A quick check of Wikipedia for Medical Cannabis provides an excellent description of medical cannabis‚ and provides a general history of cannabis as medicine including an immense amount of supporting documentation. Cannabis as a medicine became common throughout much of the world by the 19th century. It was used as the primary pain reliever until the invention of aspirin. Modern medical and scientific
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Electronic Medical Records Many health care facilities have a hard time keeping up with claims and payments in medical records. Some facilities hire people just to handle these tasks. If not properly monitored‚ it can cause problems in patients’ accounts. Health care facilities use electronic medical records to improve profitability while reducing the time it takes to submit and receive payment for claims. Many of the facilities purchase software with billing and claims. Some of the advantages
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