Question

list three biggest barriers or roadblocks for US physicians and hospitals in adopting EHR system.  Create and discuss a plan for addressing each of these barriers.
- Include at least 3 references that support your plans for overcoming these roadblocks.

Answer 1

Electronic Health Record a most advanced technique used in healthcare sector for documentation.

But it has its own barrier where a physician and hospital may face

• Cost:

Adopting EHR by the hospital is very costly which forms the first major form of barrier This includes the implementation, training the staff,purchase price, monitoring, upgrading and governance cost. The size of the organisation forms a major issue here.These can be avoided by government providing funds to initiate and maintain it.Working along with the EHR vendor to get customised solutions

• Interuption in work to Physician

The physician are the one who has to listen to the complaints of patients and treat accordingly may find it time consuming if they lack the typing skill, new to them.TYhey feel they may have loss of eye contact with the patients.This can be avoid by using a device which is speech accessible.Providing the device accessibility for the physician at the patients bedsides, or a laptop or hand held tablets

• Security issues

Advancement in science and technologies as increased the greater threat to cyber theft of patient data and using them in wrong way. The reason is all the patient can access their health record if the confidential details like user Id and password are revealed it may lead to problem. Hence to solve this cyber security system has to be installed. Constant monitoring in the hospital by IT department recording between whom the data are exchanged or transferred