HCI 670 Topic 1 Assessment - Human Factors Engineering Paper - Department of Health Informatics.
Health information technology (IT) has the potential
... [Show More] to improve the health of
individuals and the performance of providers, yielding improved quality, cost savings, and
greater engagement by patients in their own health care. Health IT systems permit the
collection of data for use for quality management, outcome reporting, and public health
disease surveillance and reporting. However, improvement is needed with all health IT,
especially regarding design, implementation, and integration between platforms within the
work environment. Robust interoperability is critical for safe care, but this goal has proved
elusive. As the implementation and use of health IT systems increase, it is important to keep
patient safety and quality as a major focus.
An Electronic Health record is a record of the patients and treatments given to the
patients which is stored online in the cloud to access it from anywhere at any time. This
actually helps the doctors to easily hand over the patient details to another doctor who treats
the patient at a different time at a different place. This enables a smooth workflow. There are
a lot of inter-operable PHR (patient health record) which is being used by many practicians
which also helps the patients to know what medications they have been receiving. this will
also provide them of an overview of the self health analysis. While an EHR does contain the
medical and treatment histories of patients, an EHR system is built to go beyond standard
clinical data collected in a provider’s office and can be inclusive of a broader view of a patient’s
care (Petersson & Backman, 2021). One of the most famous and fast growing EHR is the
blueEHR. BlueEHR is an Electronics health records software that helps this done easily. The
best part of this EHR is that it is customizable to the physician or doctor’s needs. And that is
one thing that most of the other top EHR software do not provide. [Show Less]