Electronic Health Records Flashcards
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Electronic record of health-related information on an individual
Conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards
Can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff across more than one healthcare organization.
Qualified EHR
Includes patient demographic and clinical health information
AND
has the capacity to:
provide clinical decision support
support physician order entry
capture and query information relevant to health care quality
able to exchange electroni health information with and integrate such information from other sources
Functions of EMR
- Captures and enables use of data at POC
- Health Information Exchange
- Quality measurement, reporting, and improvement
- Supports clinical decision makeing
- Collects and integrates source data
3 Components of MU incentive program
- Certification Program whereby EHR technology is tested and certified as meeting standards and criteria.
- Standards and Criteria that certified EHR technology must meet
- Objectives and measures for earning incentives
Certification of EHRs
Oversight by ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology)
Testing Laboratories are accredited by
*Americant National Standards Institute (ANSI)
*National Voluntary Laboratory Accrediaton program (NVLAP)
Standards that EHRs must meet
Address specifications for exchanging health information content,
vocabularies for representing health informaiont,
protection of health information created, maintained, and exchanged by EHR technology
Objectives and meausre for earning incentives
Defined by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Stages of MU implementation
2011: Data capture and sharing
2013: Advanced clinical processes
2015: Improved outcomes
Priorities for adoption of EHR Technology
- Improve quality, safety, efficiency, and resude health disparities
- Engage patiens and their families in their healthcare
- Improve care coordination
- Improve population and phblic health
- Ensure adequate privacy and security protections for personal health information
Specific outcomes for EHR
- Improve quality of healthcare
- Enhance patient safety
- Support health maintenance
- Increase productivity
- Reduce hassle factors
- Support revenue enhancement
- Support predicitive modeling
- Maintain patient confidentiality
Improving quality of Health care with EHR
Data availability
Links to knowledge sources
Enhancing paitient safety with EHRs
Context-sensitive reminders and alerts clinical decision support automated surveillance Chronic disease managment Drug/device recall capability
Support of health maintenance by EHRs
Preventive care and wellness with reminders Health summaries Tailored instructions Educational materials home monitoring/tracking
Increased productivity with EHRs
Data capture and reporting formats tailored to users
streamlined workflow supprot
patient-specific care plans, guidelines, and protocols
Reduction of hassle factors with EHRs
Improve satisfaction for clinicians, consumers, and caregivers by managing:
- scheduling
- registration
- referrals
- medication refills
- work queues
- auto generation of administrative data
Support of revenue enhancement by EHRs
Eligibility and benefit information Cost-efficiency analysis Clinical trial recruitment Rules-driven coding assistance External accountability reporting/outcome mx Contract managment
EHR System components
Hardware Software People Policy Process
4 main categories of information systems that comprise the EHR
- Sources systems that collect data, including administrative, financial, and clinical
- Core clinical systems that enable use of data at the point of care
- Supporting infrastructure that integrates data from applications internalk to a given care delivery organization
- Connectivity systems that support the integration of data across different organiatons and with patients or their caregivers
MPI
Master patient index