Is your health information meeting requirements?
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By :
Jamie Hanson
Submitted
2010-02-12 02:03:32 |
Health information is a record of your health containing the detailed history, symptoms, examinations and test results. This record is maintained each time you visit your physician, health care facility or any additional health care provider. This information is typically referred to as the patient/client medical record and serves as a data for diagnoses, treatment and plan for future care. The other vital aspects for which your health information record is utilized are:
- .Planning your treatment and care.
- Communicating among health care professionals involved in your case,
- Serves as a legal document detailing the treatment and care you received.
- Authentication of services actually provided and billed for payment by third party,
- Acts as a tool in educating health professionals
- The personally de-identified data is used for medical research as well as for improving the health of the region or nation by public health officials,
- De-identified data is vital for marketing and planning for business.
Apart from the above, considering your health information record helps you to ensure its accuracy, whether your data is being accessed unauthorizedly and make informed decisions while authorizing disclosure.
It was reported in 1999 by the Institute of Medicine that almost 98,000 people died in any given year due to medical errors occurring in hospitals, and this prodded Patient Safety organizations to find industry wide solutions to avoidable medical errors. The result was Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), which emerged as a key component for such solutions. CPOE is engaged to reduce such errors. The two important features of CPOE systems are they promote physicians to order electronically instead of handwritten or oral instructions and provide detailed information of patients by merging clinical information from quite a few sources like pharmacy, laboratory and radiology.
Another intent of CPOE was improving patient safety. In manual system, clerks create errors while transcribing imaging orders from written charts, but with CPOE the physician enters the order directly, eliminating clerical intervention and transcription errors. Further, for radiologist accuracy the physician is forced to give all the details in the computerized order entry system including the reason of examination, before it will accept the order; thereby helping the radiologist for finding diseases present or absent and improving the practice of medicine.
It is observed that CPOE cuts turn around time for x-rays and other radiology procedures by 43 percent, cuts medication turn around time by 64 percent and cut down turn around time for lab tests by 25 percent; apart from the obvious benefit of eliminating drug errors associated with handwritten prescriptions. This hastens the treatment of the patient. Further, CPOE combined all patient orders, radiology studies, medications, special diets, lab studies, tests and consultations in a single technique.
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Author Resource:-
For more details about the advantages of health information exchange check out the Half Penny website online; and also seeSEO services group ClickResponse.
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