NUR 514 Topic 8 Assignment Benchmark , Electronic Health Record Implementation Paper.

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Electronic Health Record Implementation

Grand Canyon University: NUR-514

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Electronic health records (EHR) are today's new health-care technology. Their

introduction has relieved some burdens faced by caregivers with increasingly complex patient

comorbidities. Many benefits of using EHR including improved safety, the ability to share

knowledge about healthcare in real time, better coordination of treatment, and improved overall

quality of healthcare. Such systems reduce healthcare costs, enhances access of care, and

improves quality of care (DeNisco & Barker, 2016).

Key Information

“Health information technology (IT) is to aid facilities with the ability to deliver quality

care improving outcomes and quality improvement (QI)” (“Monitoring Progress for Sustainable

Improvement”, n.d.). Quality infrastructure is important to support creation of QI capability in

various practices, this includes the staff, tools, and services needed to help practices recognize QI

needs, develop skills, and participate in ongoing QI programs. (Taylor et al., 2018).

Role of Informatics

Health information technology (HIT) allows facilities to gather data monitoring the

effects of the new EHR in order to improve performance. Structured data entry is used by

various EHR programs in order to be analyzed. Tools used by HIT such as registries which are

interconnected and incorporated into routine practice workflows, decision support systems that

prompt decision-making consistent with higher quality care, and HIE to share health data within

a delivery system as well as at the community and the state levels (Higgins, et al., 2015). Health

information management (HIM) is used to determine how to collect the data and to ensure that it

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