The third step is to upgrade to a certified electronic health record which is essential. Within this step, it is imperative that the leadership team …show more content…
Whereas, when the goals are met, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act do provide financial incentives. These goals are, to improve quality health of a patient, to become involved with both the patients and their family, to improve care for the patients which may involve other agencies and, more importantly, they must maintain the privacy and security of all their health record information ("How to implement EHRs," …show more content…
Unfortunately, there was issue when this was implemented. Within the private sector of a physician’s office, doctors and nurse practitioners were concerned that the EHRs would be time consuming and take away from the care of their patient. To be able to talk and care for the patient while also updating and making sure all the charting was done correctly was a big concern. Were the patients going to feel neglected because the doctor is typing in the computer while they are talking to them? For the “old time doctors”, who were use to paper charting, typing and understanding where and how to enter data in the computer was also a concern. Not even to mention the anger they felt that by not keeping the EHRs up to date that they may lose reimbursement payments by Medicare/Medicaid per the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Sheridan, 2012). In addition to private practice, the hospital establishment also had a hard time implementing this idea. Not only does the doctor have to maintain all the records and information for their patient but the hospital are required to have all the doctors/ residents/ nurse practitioners use the computerized physician order entry system. It is required by the Act that 80% of the order entered into the computer must be done by the doctor in order to receive and obtain financial incentives. Inevitably, the private sector doctors along the hospital adhered