Question

Interview someone in healthcare who has gone through the process of transitioning from manual medical records to electronic. Here are the questions to ask. Report your findings.

Questions:

What system are you running and does this system function appropriately for your practice? Pros? Cons?

What was the transition from paper to electronic like for you and your co-workers?

What happens when the system fails? Who do you call? How long does recovery usually take?

Who trained you on the new system? What was that experience like?

Are you able to link with outside healthcare systems such as labs, pharmacies and specialists through the EMR system with ease?

Overall, has EMR made your work load and patient intake more efficient and easier? Would you go back to paper?

Discuss your personal perspective as a patient. 

Answer 1

electronic health record:
It is an electronic version of the patient record. It contains a patient history and treatment plan. It provides standard clinical data collection and provides a clear view of patient history and care.
Pros:
-It provides flexible time and ensures compliance
-create communication and quality service between patient and provider
-Provide accurate coding and billing process
-It creates unique note templates for chart service
cons:
-Take more time for EHR practice implementation
-Has a safety issue for patient information with web
converting paper record to electronic medical record is a difficult task and has more benefit instead of searching many paper file, this digital system help guiding to access patient data with the cloud it purposes to have space and save money and as a provider, we earn financial incentives for EHR implementation it helps with transitioning cost. IT knowledge and training help to avoid risk and provide security for patient information, it helps to avoid errors from the handwritten medical record. There are a lot of barriers to implementing these tasks like preparation, implementation, training, lack of user-friendly interface. have a plan and goals as the first step for commit transition and make a decision. it should involve everyone for practitioner EHR throughout the transition. then it saves time and reduces expenses and creates productivity.
When EHR failure to do its function there will be project delay, cost increase, failure to fulfill the goals, patient and provider dissatisfaction, poor usability, productivity and effectiveness, and patient and staff dissatisfaction.
Call EHR provider and IT consultant they provide suggestions to protecting the patient records, it needs some alternate arrangement for workflow. administration staff should inform the patient about the recovery process and arrival. It will take several days or weeks for an outage, it needs access to track the medical records without any missing data. paper-based medical record implementation help to track the patient data for till the system ready.
IT consultant, clinical provider, office staff provide training for the staff that best suits their organization structure and patient population.
Process-based training will help us to understand the workflow. EHR adoption through training provides an introduction to technology for practice. it was extremely valuable for complete workflow analysis. software uses and training are helpful resources after implementation. it gave a detailed analysis of what is right and wrong for an organization with EHR implementation.