EHR in Clinical Practice
Scenario:
You are an informatics nurse specialist working in a healthcare organization that is merging with another organization of comparable size. As a result of the merger, funds have been designated to offer services in a satellite facility. You are responsible to lead the project committee in implementing a health information system (HIS) known as Electronic Health Record (EHR) that meets current HITECH and HIPAA Security and Privacy regulatory requirements.
A. Discuss and analyze electronic health records (EHR) by doing the following:
1. Summarize key details about the advantages and disadvantages of a EHR, including the accurate description of each of the given points.:
• usability
• interoperability
• scalability
• compatibility
2. Provide a logical and key description how a EHRwill affect patient care and documentation.
3. Explain key details of using a EHR to access information, and the explanation to logically address how accessing information will affect the quality and delivery of nursing care and patient outcomes
B. Discuss how a EHR will benefit the organization by addressing the following:
1. Provide two ways that quality improvement (QI) data collected from a system can lead to measurable improvement in health care services and the health status of targeted patient groups.
2. Explain key details about security standards and regulation, how EHR will meet HITECH and HIPAA security standards and regulations by address the points below:
• data storage integrity
• data backup and recovery
3. Explain logically the features of a EHR and provide key details of how a system will protect patient privacy.
4. Describe how adopting a EHR will improve organizational efficiency and productivity by addressing the following factors to the organization by incorporating all of the given points below:
• standardizing documentation
• reducing waste
• increasing productivity
• human and capital resource
C. Describe four essential stakeholder roles of the interdisciplinary team to work on a system implementation, providing key details of all the given point ( the discussion should relate the team to the migration project)
• each team member’s title in the organization
• each team member’s role in the implementation of the health information system
• each team member’s expertise and how it contributes to the success of the project
D. Discuss your plan for evaluating the success of the implementation of a EHR by incorporating two professional organization standards.
E. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Use the Turnitin Originality Report available in Taskstream as a guide for this measure of originality