Question

Create a propoal about electronic medical records and cover the following:

Select one of the approaches to improvement, such as lean management, lean improvement, lean toolbox, clinical practice guidelines, or six sigma improvement models.

Describe how the selected approach to improvement positively impacts the selected issue.

Identify and describe a method of evaluating the effectiveness of the improvement approach you propose.

Answer 1

Answer: An electronic health record (EHR), or electronic medical record (EMR), is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically-stored health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different health care settings. Electronic Health Records ( EHR s) are the first step to transformed health care. The benefits of electronic health records include: Better health care by improving all aspects of patient care, including safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, communication, education, timeliness, efficiency, and equity.

Lean management is an approach to running an organization that supports the concept of continuous improvement, a long-term approach to work that systematically seeks to achieve small, incremental changes in processes in order to improve efficiency and quality. Process Improvement is used to identify, analyze and improve existing processes within an organization to meet new goals and objectives. Lean Six Sigma is a methodology that relies on a collaborative team effort to improve performance by systematically removing waste and reducing variation. It evaluates the better use of the medical records and discards the useless information and data for the better process.