Assignment: Electronic Health Record

Assignment: Electronic Health Record

Assignment: Electronic Health Record

Week 4 Selling Your System Presentation Imagine that you are a project manager at an electronic health record company that has recently bought their competitor. You are going into a facility that has been using the old competitor’s system and you will be in charge of discussing the effects of upgrading or changing EHR systems. Using the course materials and a minimum of two outside resources, discuss the implications of upgrading or changing to a different EHR. Include the process, the people involved, and the training needed, as well as the positive and negative outcomes that may occur during transition. Keep in mind that you work for the EHR company, and you need to focus on selling the new system to the facility. Use the Kaltura recording tool to create your presentation. It should be no more than five minutes in duration and should include audio with your integrated PowerPoint. Please see the Getting Started with Kaltura link in the main menu if you need to review how to use the recording tool.

An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically-stored health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different  settings. Records are shared through network-connected, enterprise-wide information systems or other information networks and exchanges. EHRs may include a range of data, including , medical history, medication and allergies,  status, laboratory test results, radiology images, vital signs, personal statistics like age and weight, and billing information.

A decade ago, electronic health records (EHRs) were touted as key to increasing of quality care. Today, providers are using data from patient records to improve quality outcomes through their care management programs. Combining multiple types of clinical data from the system’s health records has helped clinicians identify and stratify chronically ill patients. EHR can improve quality care by using the data and analytics to prevent hospitalizations among high-risk patients.

EHR systems are designed to store data accurately and to capture the state of a patient across time. It eliminates the need to track down a patient’s previous paper medical records and assists in ensuring data is accurate and legible. It can reduce risk of data replication as there is only one modifiable file, which means the file is more likely up to date, and decreases risk of lost paperwork. Due to the digital information being searchable and in a single file, EMRs (electronic medical record) are more effective when extracting medical data for the examination of possible trends and long term changes in a patient. Population-based studies of medical records may also be facilitated by the widespread adoption of EHRs and EMRs.