Implementing Electronic Health Records
Health Care Information Systems
HCS 483

Implementing Electronic Health Records
Health Care Information Systems
HCS 483

Implementing Electronic Health Records
In the move toward electronic health records for patient’s there are obstacles that have to be addressed, procedures implemented into the process, and security maintained at the highest level.
Electronic Health Records
Electronic health records (EHR) are often confused in terminology with electronic medical records and the two are vastly different with only a few similarities. Electronic medical records are the culmination of medical information of patients in one office. Electronic health records are designed to follow the patient wherever they receive care to build a complete history of care, treatment, and diagnoses to allow accurate care. EHR’s design is to be shared with any provider, health care system or organization, and ancillary provider to easily share the patient’s health history. This culmination of information follows the patient to any facility in town, in the state, or in the country to provide the most effective history on the patient.
Effects of Electronic Health Records
The long-term effects of implementing electronic health records currently is still an unknown because there is still a lot of work to be done to create a nationally accepted method for collecting this data. Studies show the positive and negative effects of implementing EHRs. Health care information technology (IT) can have a negative effect if the system is not designed for effective use by the clinicians.
“Health IT can be a contributing factor to adverse events, such as the overdosing of patients because of poor user interface design, failing to detect life threatening illnesses because of unclear information displays, and delays in treatment because of the loss of data. Adverse events, such as these, have led to serious injuries and death” (Murphy, 2012, p. 1). Positive effects of the EHR are focusing on the creation of

References: Integrating Privacy & Security Into Your Practice. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/ehr-privacy-security/practice-integration Murphy, K. (2012). Study shows health IT’s positive, negative effects on safety. Retrieved from http://ehrintelligence.com/2012/09/17/study-shows-health-it%E2%80%99s-positive-negative-effects-on-safety/
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