According to Tang (2003), an effective EHR should have health information of patients and allow access by authorized personnel.
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
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ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR)
Electronic Health Record is also referred to as Electronic Patient Record. It comprises the electronic data of patients that include demographics, medication, allergies and medical history (Stead, 2010). This kind of information is can be shared by different health cares if it is in shared network. The advantages of such a system is that a patient can be treated effectively in any medical facility because the doctors or nurses will be able to retrieve the medical history of the person from the database which can shed more light as to the current condition the patient may be suffering from. It also shortens the time taken by the administration to admit a patient because personal details of the patient are available if the patient has been treated before. This essay is a discussion on attributes that a. electronic health record should have in a hospital, private practice, community health and the residential aged care facility and looking at their differences and similarities.
Hospital
The EHR should enable data collection and also be able to do regular checking to support regulatory and authorization requirements. It should also give information pertaining different departments like the ICU, emergency, admission, diagnostic and the pharmacy. This would enable patients to know services offered in each department. It should be possible for computers within the hospital to access the health records from any department to facilitate treatment and diagnosis. The EHR should support both audio and visual records from departments such as surgery and psychology unit and other interviews that the doctor or patient would like to revisit so that it is easier to track errors made during diagnosis and correct them.
Private Practice
The system should ensure that private doctors and physicians can communicate with patients at home so that home based treatment is monitored. It should also enable documentation of the demographics of the patient (Terry, 2010).
Community health
The EHR system should be able to register the demographics of the patient that include address, name, age, primary language and gender. The EHR should support calculation of fees and billings of patients who get treated at community health centers so that health fees can be adjusted depending on the financial situation of the patient. This will be possible if the system allows recording of the housing status of the patient in addition to ethnicity (California Health Care Foundation, 2007). The population served by community health services is huge and so the EHR should enable storage of personal patient information to enable follow up of the treatment being provided to the patient by giving the patient a unique identifier. The EHR system should also be able to link data appropriately and maintain its integrity. The system should allow patients to record individually and by family. It should be possible for the patient to have more than one guarantor without necessarily having multiple accounts and it should also differentiate between the patients and the guarantors.
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