NURS FPX 6422 Assessment 5 Presentation to the Organization
NURS FPX 6422 Assessment 5 Presentation to the Organization Student Name Capella University NURS-FPX6422 Clinical Information Systems and Application to Nursing Practice Analysis Professor Name Submission Date Presentation to the Organization Slide 1 I am ________. I will come back to this at the end of the day and discuss how we can do more – much more – about the usage of electronic health records (EHRs) in hospice care. Introduction Slide 2 Healthcare providers are now putting in place systems to electronically record the healthcare information of a patient to manage patients’ health records electronically. This also allows healthcare providers to leverage information from patient data stored in other systems and in the patient’s patient record to make informed decisions about patient care. With EHRs available, providers can now easily, quickly, and accurately get patient records before they can offer timely access to care for their patients. The use of HIT and EHR systems has transformed the healthcare delivery system, and their interoperability is one way to create a safer system of healthcare delivery, allowing a patient to receive consistent and quality care throughout the patient’s experience with hospice. Current Workflow Problem Slide 3 They present a host of problems, however, for hospice staff. A fully-featured EHR system, for instance, can be a massive undertaking that’s challenging to use by hospice staff when they have to fill out all of the necessary information to provide high-quality care. There are also technical issues related to face-to-face patient visits (e.g., technical problems at the time of a visit), which include the possibility of data loss or system failure. These types of technical issues can pose problems in providing quality patient care if they cause an interruption in a hospice employee’s workflow, e.g., a week (or even a day) of no patient encounters. Proposed Workflow Change Slide 4 Also, effective communication and unintended errors in the recording of encounters with patients in the EHR can compromise patient care and safety, and the delivery team should: 1) establish standards and develop templates for documenting patient information; 2) determine how EHR can be used to effectively communicate changes in patients’ status among the entire delivery team; 3) find the right technology to ensure that admissions and discharges are documented accurately and timely; and 4) integrate alerts and reminders into clinical decision support systems (CDSS) to minimize the risk of errors stemming from incomplete or inaccurate documentation of patient status, thereby promoting improved and safer care overall. The EHR vendor may provide education programs for its staff to maximize the use of the EHR, minimize errors, and provide the best care for the patient. These enhancements will result in increased effectiveness, safety, and efficiency for both the health practitioner and the patient. Evidence-Based Practice Support Slide 5 Where these kinds of systems have been implemented in a health service organisation, they could serve as a fundamental approach for delivering evidence-based health services and as a tool for continuous quality improvement and improved care for patients. Organizations also need to implement a clinical decision support system (CDSS) to be able to effectively deploy an EMR system. Liu said CDSS can be implemented to send alerts to clinicians if there is a potential drug interaction with a patient, if there is a patient allergy alert, and for patient safety alerts. The main purpose of having a CDSS is to notify the clinician as soon as a problem arises—and to give him/her information that could help them solve the problem before it is one! These alerts from the CDSS will enhance patient safety by notifying the clinician of potential problems that could cause the patient to become sicker and allowing the clinician to plan for the situation that’s evolving. Clear benefits of EMR integration are seen in its ‘evidentiary positive outcome’, which is claimed to include better communication amongst clinicians, better outcomes for patients, and fewer obvious errors reported in patient care. All members of the caregiving team share information with one another—with better communication, all team members will be able to see and share information with each other and utilize electronic medical records. Strategic Alignment with Organizational Goals Slide 6 Also, the CDSS has made it easier for healthcare providers (HCPs) to boost the quality of care they provide to their patients, including working with the patient to accomplish assignments related to best care. In developing programs to support the adoption of EHR in HIE programs, as described in the study conducted by Ribeiro & O’Brien, here are two issues that should be considered. The first is to develop an avenue to use HIE to support quality improvement (QI) programs and, in the long term, be involved in the business process improvement program (BPI) of the organization. Others will be: The second is that Independent Laboratories & their clients will enjoy more opportunities to use their EHR Systems to maintain compliance with all applicable laws, procedures & regulations while avoiding any or all of the following: Burdening staff; Creating different workflows. Stakeholder Impact: Clinical Staff Slide 7 A workflow-oriented, easy-to-use EHR will benefit all clinic workers – Doctors, Nurses, and other staff members. The templates to be used will give them an adjusted time frame for patient care, which will be the Nurses’ responsibility. They would have access to the best clinical decision-making tool and would be able to enjoy real-time notification and replacement in the process. Further, it will enable communication between each other at a higher level as a component of the communication process of EHR, which will stimulate a higher level of cooperation among all members of the interdisciplinary team to enhance the communication process. These changes are experienced by health care providers, including a decrease in workload, number of errors, and job satisfaction. Stakeholder Impact: Patients and Organization Slide 8 The delivery of an actual change in the work will cause a massive change not only in the patients but also among health organizations. Better accuracy in international records and




