Question

Explain Meaningful Use in EHR in Healthcare information technology (300 words).

Answer 1

Electronic health record (EHR) systems have transformed the health care system by maintaining the data in electronic form from paper-based method. This process will help the clinical and other service providers in delivering higher quality of care to their patients. The information includes in EHR is patient’s demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, past medical history, immunizations records, laboratory reports etc. This system is beneficial for patients, medical services providers and insurers because they all are benefited from easily available electronic data which a patient can use for getting quality care, medical practitioners can use for giving quality care services and insurers can use from policy making and rendering services to insured patients.

In the EHR system, data is easily available in electronic form therefore forecasting and projections can be done. The data can be collected from EHR system and then it should be analyzed and forecasted. This process will help the industry in its strategic planning for the future as data plays vital role in planning. It can be used for assessment of the growth and progress of the industry and projection of industry growth and projection of resource requirement in future. It will also help in comparative analysis within organization and with the industry.

The EHR system will help in improvements in the quality of care and speed of service and a reduction in medical errors by using on-time data. It will also help in better financial and operational performance by the services providers including clinics and health insurers therefore it will improve satisfaction among patients and medical service providers.