EMR System Implementation
The healthcare industry is increasingly impacted by advanced in Information Technology (IT). As our abilities to coordinate, interconnect and streamline the transmission of data through IT solutions improve so too do our abilities to provide efficient, safe and effective healthcare decisions for presenting patients. This is the notion that underscores the present discussion regarding Inter-Regional Health Systems, an organization identified specifically for the purposes of this discussion and approaching a proposed IT transformation. Inter-Regional is a multi-site healthcare complex with a wide variety of emergency room, clinic, specialist and outpatient facilities on each site. On the whole, the company has roughly 10,000 employees across its various sites. The private health firm is seeking to improve efficiency as a way of improving its economic performance and considers that it will likely benefit from the implementation of an Electronic Medical Records system. The discussion here evaluates this proposition.
Need for Proposed Change:
First an foremost, we note that the proposed change is made wholly necessary by the outdated and poorly integrated systems that span multiple facilities. It has been more than a decade since inter-regional updates its medical records system. Moreover, as the company has expanded and purchased existing healthcare facilities and complexes, it has taken on an array of mismatched IT systems. At the present juncture, this is producing an impasse where patients moving between different areas of the same healthcare system encounter gaps in records and various resultant bureaucratic errors. According to Draper (2012), "this is not only inefficient for you and for your doctor, but it also increases the risk that you won't get the healthcare that you need because the doctor doesn't have the right information. It can also lead to mistakes and problems with prescription conflicts or allergies." (Draper, p. 1)
This is why the EMR-driven strategy would be ideal for Inter-Regional. With the company's major growth stage now behind it, it is incumbent upon Inter-Regional to improve consistency and workflow through its system. This need is also of particular importance because inconsistency can lead to legal liability and compliance failures. The Microsoft Corporation (2012) finds that an EMR-based "solution can help you create complete records that comply with the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and...
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