TECHNOLOGY TRENDS PROPOSAL PART II Technology Trends Proposal Part II Rowena Peter March 11th, 2019 HCS/483- Week 3 KYM PFRANK 1 TECHNOLOGY TRENDS PROPOSAL PART II Technology Trends Proposal Part II Electronic Health Records was one of the trends that I identified in the last assignment. EHR implementation in a healthcare organization often brings emergence of new challenges that the organization need to cope with through introducing mechanisms that will protect the organization especially from a security breach that will lead to patient's information being accessed by hackers. EHR has privacy risks, security safeguards, and strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of EHR in the healthcare industry and this will be discussed in detail. Privacy Risks The EHR of patients are often at risk from being accessed by unauthorized individuals, and this usually calls for a healthcare organization to implement policies and strategies that will protect the patient's medical records. An organization that have implemented the EHR technology need to ensure that they have taken extra steps since having such technology increases the level of responsibility and risk to the organization. Having the EHR system implemented in a healthcare organization instances of a possible hack, security breaches and mishandling of the patient information might arise, and all these need to be safeguarded by the management before they occur (Rodrigues et al., 2013). Hackers can be able to access an organization information system and access patient information especially when an organization security system is weak or has been jeopardized. Therefore, there is a need for preserving the patient EHR and ensuring that only authorized individual has access to the information. Setting an effective security standard would help a healthcare organization to protect the patient EHR from being breached. Security Safeguards 2 TECHNOLOGY TRENDS PROPOSAL PART II Implementation of security guards is required for all the organizations that have implemented the EHR technology. The process of safeguarding EHR is often long and difficult, but ultimately it needs to be undertaken. In ensuring that EHR are safeguarded from security breach having a system that would allow tracking and reviewing all the employees that have access the organization database would help to identify all that they have reviewed on the database. Employees also need to have their unique username and password that they would use to log into the healthcare organization database to access their patient's health information (Tsai, 2010). This will ensure that the unauthorized individuals who are not part of the organization employees are not able to access the patient health information. EHR security safeguard can also be undertaken through all the employees taking training classes on how to use the organization database when accessing patient information together with the HIPPA regulations. Training the employees on how to ascertain that the information they retrieve from the organization database are not breached would be ideal for safeguarding the patient health records. Strategies for Evaluating Effectiveness of EHR Completion of employees training requires developing strategies that will ascertain that the EHR is effective and ensures high efficiency. This can be through engaging in a process that would verify the information that has been stored in the records. Engaging in front-end or back-end verification would help in evaluating the EHR effectiveness. Having nurses, physicians and receptionist updating the information of the patients on the organization system and the employees engaging in ensuring that they can access the information would help to ascertain its effectiveness. When updating the patient information, it is also essential to ensure that correct information about the patient is recorded on the correct patient file. 3 TECHNOLOGY TRENDS PROPOSAL PART II References Rodrigues, J. J., De La Torre, I., Fernández, G., & López-Coronado, M. (2013). Analysis of the security and privacy requirements of cloud-based electronic health records systems. Journal of medical Internet research, 15(8). Tsai, F. S. (2010). Security issues in e-healthcare. Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 30(4), 209-214. 4 Technology Trends Worksheet HCS/483 Version 8 1 University of Phoenix Material Technology Trends Worksheet Imagine you work for a health care organization and have been asked to develop a proposal on how the organization might adopt a technology trend to improve the quality of the health care delivered to organization members. Examples of technology trends: • Telemedicine • Optical imagery for diagnosing disease • Electronic health records • Telehealth • Video translation services • Dictation services (e.g., Dragon NaturallySpeaking) • Medical equipment • Health care robots • Neural engineering • Intelligent mobile devices • National health care information network • A technology trend approved by your faculty Select and research two technology trends. Complete the table below by explaining the trend’s use, the effect of the trend on the health care industry, the benefits of adapting the selected trend, and how the selected trend will improve the quality of health care delivered. Technology Trend Electronic health records Explain its Use (50 to 150 words) Explain its Effect on the Health Care Industry (50 to 150 words) Explain the Benefits of Adapting the Selected Trend and How the Selected Trend Will Improve the Quality of Health Care Delivered (50 to 150 words) Electronic Health Records (EHR) is the digital version of the patient's paper chart that eliminated the many paperwork that is often The effect of EHR in the healthcare industry has been something to note since the cost related to EHR is restrictive. EHR has led to the supplier of the technology to pay for the technology hardware The benefits of a healthcare organization towards adapting EHR is that it will ensure efficiency and competency of the practitioners removing any margin for error. Through EHR it will benefit an organization since it will not engage in filling out the patient information Copyright © 2018 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Technology Trends Worksheet HCS/483 Version 8 conducted in a healthcare organization (Fernández-Alemán et al., 2013). EHR is used in the healthcare organizations to ascertain that patients are provided adequate care and that their health information is secured from all the unauthorized individuals. EHR also ensure that patient information is instantly available apart from being secured. It often utilized to ensure there is security when sharing patient information with the patient and other clinicians. It is also used to improve patient, and provider interaction and communication and health care convince. It is also used by practitioners to ascertain there is safer and more reliable prescription. Through the use of EHR, it has enabled the doctors and nurses, and this has helped to reduce and software, and this has also led to a healthcare organization to engage in investing for the setup, preservation, training, and participating in a systematic review of the technology (Carayon et al., 2015). Organizations that do not encounter an increase in revenue the cost of implementing the technology is often very high which hinders a healthcare organization from ascertaining security of their patient medical information. The other effect of EHR in the healthcare industry is that it provides the practitioners the opportunity to provide a patient desired care based on the patient health information in EHR. 2 records on a paper which often consume time; thus, the trend will lead to improvement in the delivery of healthcare through streamlining workflows. The other benefit is that the selected trend allows a comprehensive view of the patient through providing a holistic view of the overall health of the patient leading to ensuring that the patient is provided with quality health care (Fernández-Alemán et al., 2013). EHR is also beneficial as it enables sharing of information across specialist, hospitals, practitioners, and pharmacies allowing better and more timely decision making, especially in critical situations leading to improvement in the quality of healthcare, delivered. Copyright © 2018 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Technology Trends Worksheet HCS/483 Version 8 3 medical errors and to ensure there is safe care. Telemedicine Telemedicine is the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients through the use of different telecommunications technology. The use of telecommunication is to ensure that healthcare providers can evaluate, diagnose and treat a patient through using technology such as video conferencing (Ekeland, Bowes & Flottorp, 2010). Telemedicine is used in healthcare organization to increase patient access to value patient care. Through the use of telemedicine, it has helped in the reduction of healthcare expenditures that patients often encounter. The use of telemedicine has also made it easier for patient's relatives and sponsors to followup their patients' treatment and ascertain that everything is The effect of telemedicine in the healthcare industry is that it has ensured that healthcare providers that engage in providing telemedicine services adhere to patient confidentiality which has been established by HIPAA. Engaging in online communication especially through the internet has its adverse effects primarily due to the hacking of communication, therefore, enabling the authorized individual to access patient medical information (Russo, McCool & Davies, 2016). Creating an effective telemedicine environment is not an easy task as it requires maximum training and building an effective telemedicine program that will support the practitioner's endeavors. Telemedicine can also affect an organization especially when patient information is compromised when the practitioners are engaging in online interaction when providing treatment to a patient. The benefits of an organization that adapts to telemedicine are that it increases patient engagement with their practitioners and this leads to a reduction of costs translating to improved health of a patient and delivery of quality medical care. The other benefit of telemedicine is that it provides high quality healthcare services to those patients that live in rural areas; therefore, transporting them to a hospital is often very difficult. Telemedicine is also beneficial and leads to the delivery of quality healthcare by enabling healthcare practices to cater to the broader set of patients rather than those who can access medical services (Ekeland, Bowes & Flottorp, 2010. Telecommunication is also beneficial to patients as it brings medical care into the homes of the patients where they can receive primary care and urgent medical needs. Telemedicine is beneficial as it ensures delivery of adequate and quality delivery of medical care without indulging in hassle to communicate and seek appointments with doctors. Copyright © 2018 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Technology Trends Worksheet HCS/483 Version 8 conducted effectively. Copyright © 2018 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 4 Technology Trends Worksheet HCS/483 Version 8 References Carayon, P., Wetterneck, T. B., Alyousef, B., Brown, R. L., Cartmill, R. S., McGuire, K., ... & Weinger, M. B. (2015). Impact of electronic health record technology on the work and workflow of physicians in the intensive care unit. International journal of medical informatics, 84(8), 578-594. Ekeland, A. G., Bowes, A., & Flottorp, S. (2010). Effectiveness of telemedicine: a systematic review of reviews. International journal of medical informatics, 79(11), 736-771. Fernández-Alemán, J. L., Señor, I. C., Lozoya, P. Á. O., & Toval, A. (2013). Security and privacy in electronic health records: A systematic literature review. Journal of biomedical informatics, 46(3), 541-562. Russo, J. E., McCool, R. R., & Davies, L. (2016). VA telemedicine: an analysis of cost and time savings. Telemedicine and e-Health, 22(3), 209-215. Copyright © 2018 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 5
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