Current Policies For Emr Practitioners Figure 1 Showing...

ELETRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS INTERGRITY NKWOCHA CHARLES O. December 2015 Table of contents Summary Introduction EMR (problems) Risks in EMR Current policies for EMR practitioners Figure 1: showing Adoption of EMR Figure 2: adoption of EMR by parties Conclusions and recommendations References Summary EMR systems would change the way care is delivered with designed technology and proper use of its software.†¦show more content†¦The quality depends on integrity, accuracy of health information, adoption of health information technology, and electronic medical records that would be vital in transforming the U.S health care system to one that is efficient and safer. Adoption of EMR has failed to achieve the benefit for which it was designed for, despite the promises of it improving quality of care and patient security. EMR errors results in data been lost or entered incorrectly, much efforts needs to be done to measure the occurrence of this errors determine the causes and get solutions. EMR impacting information integrity adversely (Problems) Rather than making improvement in quality of data it has led to recording of bad data, while the primary goal is reduction of medical errors instead more errors have emerged that can comprise the quality of care and patient safety, for example a baby died from massive drug overdose because of transcription error when a handwritten order was entered in the system and this would have been avoided if automated alerts where turned on. Since there is no monitoring of EMR system. These systems may have developed Program errors or bugs, the way clinicians do their daily work. The complexity of tasks clinicians can perform using EMR with the pressure to quickly adopt the use of these systems because of the incentives created by HITECH. It is difficult for users to anticipate future challenges in using EMR and also when a lot of money have