Subject of Course Project:
Implementation of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) System
Business problem statement:
The behavioral health industry is moving toward measurement based and integrated care. Funding for behavioral health clinics will be tied to value, and not volume, and behavioral health providers will need technology platforms that document and measure care in ways that align to contractually specified patient outcomes. As the field continues to move toward holistic care, behavioral health providers will be required to integrate their service delivery with primary care, which will necessitate the inter-operability of health information systems. At this time, Team E’s clinic does not have a system to adequately document and measure care over time, nor does it have a technology platform sophisticated enough to exchange health information with other health care service delivery systems.
Name of the company or organization:
Team E Behavioral Clinic
Brief description of proposed solution:
To migrate from a paper based system, to a user-friendly, integrated, certified EHR system to give our clinic the ability to manage client intake, case management, client discharge, demographic analytics, and billing.
5. General benefits it will provide the organization:
Improved Patient Care
Improved Coordination of Care
Increase Patient Participation
Improved Diagnostics and Patient Outcomes
Efficiencies and Cost Saving
Audience to whom you are presenting the recommendations:
The proposal to implement an EHR system will be presented to the senior leadership team, and the board of directors for final approval.
Find the following:
Business process changes
Technology or business practices used to augment the solution
Conclusions and overall recommendations
High-level implementation plan
Summary of project
References
Appendices
Standardization is very essential task of any Electronical health record. Buy standardizing the data we mean that we have to bring all the data in a similar format that all the Healthcare organisation or a group or Organisation in which that specific electronic health record is distributed could use the data for the benefit of the patients in a General form.
For implementing electronic health record system into and Healthcare organisation we can easily implement standardizing the data in a specific format which is understood by the multiple departments of the same organisation. By increasing the level of understanding between the tape department we can improve the overall efficiency of the specific company. Healthcare organisations are all about the data of the patient. By having a generalized term in the data management system inter connectivity between the departments would be directly increased which would be really result in increased interaction between the departments and a better productivity of the organisation.
By having unimplemented system which is directly capable of being understood by each and every employee in the organisation Healthcare services can be more effective as a doctor can understand the data acquired by a compound or a nurse. By having an understanding over different platforms we can increase the level of involvement of the doctors as well as the system to the patient.
Electronic health record also provides a better support for the patient to check his or her history according to the medical background. By having a unified information which can be accessed anywhere anytime and can be understood by anyone we can easily increase the level of Health Care given to a specific patient as the data stored in the electronic health records would be recognised by each and every organisation for a better support to the patient.
Contact implementing the electronic health record system, data standardization is one of the main task which have to be done on a mandatory basis. Without extender rising the data one cannot directly implement the electronic health record system into its organisation and can get the benefit of the unified information system which is based on electronic health record.
By implementing the electronic health record system into a hospitals structure one can easily reduce the overall cost of storing the data on the traditional way. With the help of the electronic health record system hospital can reduce overall cost by implementing multiple Strategies and analysis methods on the recorded data. Inter-connectivity of the specific date about a patient can increase the overall level of effectiveness of care inside an organisation. This is specific increase in level of care but directly increase efficiency of the hospital and reduce the overall cost produced by the traditional methods of Record Keeping.
Implementation of EHR also reduces the overall number of people involved in record making and increases the accuracy of the data stored into the system. This data can later be shared with other service providers as well.
By implementing above strategies we can easily reduce the overall operational cost of a hospital and can provide a better efficient structure.
Implementing electronic health record system creates an effective fraud reflecting work environment. As most of the data is collected electronically the number of fraud are reduced automatically. Transparency in the data and availability of the data in a single click make it more easier to detect the specific fraud inside an organisation and to carry out the conduct on the abuse of coding. Implementation of electronic health record also helps an organisation to ensure the overall treatment as well as different information flow inside an organisation by a specific floor which can be very beneficial for an organisation to maintain the productivity as well as efficiency while fighting the frauds.
References -https://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2012/06/18/the-staggering-cost-of-an-epic-electronic-health-record-might-not-be-worth-it/#4629631f46d3
https://hbr.org/2015/12/how-to-make-electronic-health-records-an-asset-instead-of-a-burden
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