Impact of the Electronic Health Record

How a medical office can be affected by adding EHRs.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• EHR
• electronic
• health
• record
• implementation

[kewlkatspike]

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[kewlkatspike]

@jgcamp99 I totally agree!! In Britain the situation is just as bad. Too much emphasis has been placed on secondary data for audit and management and the primary data for clinical care has been neglected. There will continue to be a need for mixed paper and electronic systems for the foreseeable future.

Coding should always be the servant and never the master.

[BellichecksBrain]

If a grid was wiped out, the practice could move anywhere if the app was accessible via the web. A practice wouldn't be able to open if they had no power without an EMR anyway. If a building burnt down they would lose all their paper records, so that argument is really irrelevant. Patient data is much more secure electronic compared to paper. The input errors will be reduced because of template creations, mandatory fields, drop downs, check boxes, etc.

[jgcamp99]

All this sounds great, but it's only as good as the data input into it. Same errors that always have existed, continue to persist. Pay attention to "Problems with EHR" slide(s).

[jgcamp99]

It's been what, 5 years since Hurricane Katrina. That was identified as probably a great example of an application to use it. But I have a question, what happens when a natural disaster wipes out power for days or weeks even ? Areas have no power to operate the computer systems to read a patients EHR data device, that's if the media even exists. They'll find life on another planet before this ever gets rolled out reliably ?

[jgcamp99]

The problem is that nobody uses the same EHR systems. Do they talk to each other ? FQCHC uses Sage's Medical Manager/Intergy. Others use Epic's EHR software. The Medical profession has been trying to roll out new CPT codes and ICD Codes for a good decade now. Then you have Medcin codes that is what Sage's software is based upon. Most healthcare providers can't even bill properly, if it's not outright fraud & abuse. And updating the EHR ? They don't even know what media to put it on !