Under the executive ordered by President George W Bush dated April 27, 2004, the office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (Health IT) was created within the office of secretary of health and human services its mission was to construct the infrastructure for the development and implementation of a nationwide health information technology system that will be available to all Americans by 2014. With this new system, Health care facilities will have the ability to share patient information with their staff, patient as well as other facilities through the access of this electronic records new system. This mandate will improve the quality of care, improve accuracy and the delivery of care, the convenience of delivery of medical care, medical diagnosis, improve patient information, communication among clinicians, promote better coordination of care, efficiency that will result in cost reduction. The purpose of his paper is to provide an overview of the EHR mandate, in this paper I will discuss the goals of the mandate, the effect of the new affordable Health Care Act by President Obama of the health electronic records, the possible threats to patient confidentiality paused by the mandate and the risks of violating the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, (HIPAA). After reading this paper will have a clear understanding of the mandate its risks and benefits, as I will share personal experience with the EHR. There are four fundamental methods paramount to the achievement of the mandate with two essentials goals, patient-focused health care and population health and these methods are as follow: Privacy and security a method approach tailor by the federal government to promote privacy within the EHR and patient information security. The collaborative Governance method provides assistance by the government to support entity continued to advance the structure of the health IT program. Interoperability method focuses on the standard set by the government for the EHR to ensure that electronic information exchange can be done reliably and securely. The Adoption method establish the standard and process of certification for EHR,s to ensure they meet the criteria and critical functions another to increase adaption and quality of the patient care. The Affordable Care Act by President Barack Obama has have a positive impact on the Electronic Health Records mandate. The Affordable Care Act emphasizes the importance of the electronic system in improving patient care, reducing papers usage, reducing cost and increased efficiency of the service. Today, thanks to the Electronic Health Record Information Technology system, I can access patient medical information from almost all the hospitals and other health care facilities that we receive patient referral from in real time.
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I worked in a skilled nursing and rehab facility where we received a patient from many hospitals and other health care facilities in our surrounding areas, with a provided user name and password as well as consent for release of information, for the purpose of patient care, our designated medical staff can have access to the patient records to help prepare for the patient even before they arrive to our facility. The physician from our facility can have access to actual pictures of any x-rays, CT Scan and much more. This system helps our medical staff with time management, readiness and more effective design of the patient plan of care. In addition to its efficiency this electronic health records system also helps with cost saving for the patient and their insurance by avoiding the need of repeating tests or exams that were already done during their time to the previous facility. This is a fraction of the benefits of the EHR mandate to our facility, we have many disciplines involved in the patient care, the physical therapy team, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social workers, dietary team, nursing, the physicians medical records even family member who used to wait to for other staff to finish with paper chart until they can see, that used to create delay of treatment and waste of times. With our electronic charting system each everyone of the …show more content…
Protecting patient privacy is every responsibility, as nurse, patient advocate, we have shared a large part of that responsibility. There are penalties that can be involved for breaching or violating the HIPAA law and we must be respectful in protecting the privacy of our
I worked in a skilled nursing and rehab facility where we received a patient from many hospitals and other health care facilities in our surrounding areas, with a provided user name and password as well as consent for release of information, for the purpose of patient care, our designated medical staff can have access to the patient records to help prepare for the patient even before they arrive to our facility. The physician from our facility can have access to actual pictures of any x-rays, CT Scan and much more. This system helps our medical staff with time management, readiness and more effective design of the patient plan of care. In addition to its efficiency this electronic health records system also helps with cost saving for the patient and their insurance by avoiding the need of repeating tests or exams that were already done during their time to the previous facility. This is a fraction of the benefits of the EHR mandate to our facility, we have many disciplines involved in the patient care, the physical therapy team, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social workers, dietary team, nursing, the physicians medical records even family member who used to wait to for other staff to finish with paper chart until they can see, that used to create delay of treatment and waste of times. With our electronic charting system each everyone of the …show more content…
Protecting patient privacy is every responsibility, as nurse, patient advocate, we have shared a large part of that responsibility. There are penalties that can be involved for breaching or violating the HIPAA law and we must be respectful in protecting the privacy of our