Question

professional assignment Electronic Health Records (EHR)
1: describe the relationship between EMR and TPMS .
what is the advantage and disadvantage of electrical health records and manual records create a table that outline the advantage and disadvantage of both identify a minimum of three advantage and disadvantage of each
3Assusme that you are a medical assistant working in a private practice or clinic and the clinic has decided to consider moving to an electronic system.you are highly in favor of moving to an EHR
Provide a retionale with supporting documentation for a recommendation to move to the EHR. outline a plan for how you would transaction the practice from manual to electronic record.include in your plan how an EHR will provide a foundation for more accurate and secure medical records if the client. patient. also include any processes and procedures that will need to be adjusted and any security protocol that will be required.

Answer 1

The relationship between Electronic Medical Record and Total Practice Management system in healthcare sector is the software used to make data entry or documentations .The EMR is used by the professionals working in the clinical set up and the TPMS is used by the management or the administrative professionals.

The advantage and disadvantages of EMR and manual records are

	Advantage	Disadvantage
Electronic Medical Record	Safe to store information Patient can access their information and be a active part in the treatment plan Information can be shared fastly	The risk of cyber hacking besides security system The system has to be kept in updated formats to provide the best quality service . Staffs should have technical knowledge to use it
Manual Records	The cost spent on this is less than the technology No cyber hacking of patient information User friendly	High maintainace Storage problems of hard-copy Risk of damage and loss of records

The rationale for recommending EMR are its benefits of a secured ,faster ,information transfer of patient details and services can be provided in prompt time without any time delay .The access is present to patient too so tracking patient status is highly possible .In simple continuity if care is possible .

Educating and training the staffs regarding its advantages can be a transaction model to practice from manual record to electronic Medical record

The IT department professionals has to be specifically trained to oversee the work in the EHR and ensure that a complete secured system is followed after its implementation .