Question

After reading the article,Transforming and Improving Health Care through Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology, discuss how meaningful use of data from electronic health records can be used to improve population health. Have you seen connections between data collection gathered from electronic health records and how you care for patients? Finally, reflect on your nursing experiences to an incidence where the electronic health record improved patient outcomes. How was the electronic health record used to improve outcomes? What negative impact have you seen using the electronic health record?

Answer 1

Answer: Nowadays the healthcare organization are using advanced technology for providing improved health care to the patients. Earlier there were lots of paperwork which use to consume more time, but now those data are being recorded electronically which saves time and lead to health care professionals to work smoothly. All the data are saved electronically and at one place which reduces the frequency of lost records and increases the efficiency and lowers the cost. It also improves billing procedures. Electronic health record systems usually focus on the individual patient care provided by clinicians and hospitals. Electronic health record systems apart from saving patient's health records it also helps in many ways such as guideline reminders, electronic alerts and automatic monitoring of quality of care indicators. EHR systems reduces the risk of medical errors such as adverse drug interactions etc. It also provide medical history data available during emergency care within no time.

The negative impact of using the electronic health record is that sometimes while entering the data, mistakes occurs. Whenever records is being saved in a computer we have to be careful about protecting the data from unauthorized access.