Health Information Exchange: Benefits And Concerns
Health Information Exchange: Benefits and Concerns
Ali D. Escalera
DeVry University
Health Information Technology
Professor Patricia Brennan
December 8, 2013
Thesis
“It is very important for us HIM professionals to work hard and continue working together, protecting patient information following rules and regulations.”
Health Information Exchange is the electronic transmission exchange from one health care professional to another. Health Information Exchange allows health care professionals and patients to appropriately access and securely share patient’s medical information electronically. Our industry is been working hard in …show more content…
Provides the backbone of technical infrastructure for leverage by national and State-level initiatives.
Provides a basic level of interoperability among electronic health records (EHRs) maintained by individual physicians and organizations.
Reduces health related costs
(The benefits & risks of health information exchange & health information technology. (n.d.).
The first step in EHR implementation is to conduct an assessment of your current practice and its goals, needs, and financial and technical readiness. Your practice can design an implementation plan that meets the specific needs of your practice.
Eligible health care professionals and eligible hospitals must use certified EHR technology in order to achieve meaningful use and qualify for incentive payments. It is important in an EHR when working in the implementation process to involve, training, mock “go-live,” and pilot testing for system improvement. (HIE benefits)
The final phase of EHR implementation includes successfully attesting to demonstrating meaningful use of EHRs, and reassessing what you have learned from training and everyday use of the …show more content…
Only you or your personal representative has the right to access your records. A health care provider or health plan may send copies of your records to another provider or health plan as needed for treatment or payment or as authorized by you. However, the Privacy Rule does not require the health care provider or health plan to share information with other providers or plans. You do not have the right to access a provider’s psychotherapy notes. Psychotherapy notes are notes taken by a mental health professional during a conversation with the patient and kept separate from the patient’s medical and billing records. The Privacy Rule also does not permit the provider to make most disclosures of psychotherapy notes about you without your authorization. Because HIE 's primary purpose is to improve the quality of medical care, your health care providers ' priorities are to gain and allow access to a comprehensive record of your medical history. When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalizes its “accounting of disclosures” rule, providers that maintain EHRs will have to account to you for all disclosures of your personal health information that it makes for purposes of treatment, payment, and business operations for three years
Ali D. Escalera
DeVry University
Health Information Technology
Professor Patricia Brennan
December 8, 2013
Thesis
“It is very important for us HIM professionals to work hard and continue working together, protecting patient information following rules and regulations.”
Health Information Exchange is the electronic transmission exchange from one health care professional to another. Health Information Exchange allows health care professionals and patients to appropriately access and securely share patient’s medical information electronically. Our industry is been working hard in …show more content…
Provides the backbone of technical infrastructure for leverage by national and State-level initiatives.
Provides a basic level of interoperability among electronic health records (EHRs) maintained by individual physicians and organizations.
Reduces health related costs
(The benefits & risks of health information exchange & health information technology. (n.d.).
The first step in EHR implementation is to conduct an assessment of your current practice and its goals, needs, and financial and technical readiness. Your practice can design an implementation plan that meets the specific needs of your practice.
Eligible health care professionals and eligible hospitals must use certified EHR technology in order to achieve meaningful use and qualify for incentive payments. It is important in an EHR when working in the implementation process to involve, training, mock “go-live,” and pilot testing for system improvement. (HIE benefits)
The final phase of EHR implementation includes successfully attesting to demonstrating meaningful use of EHRs, and reassessing what you have learned from training and everyday use of the …show more content…
Only you or your personal representative has the right to access your records. A health care provider or health plan may send copies of your records to another provider or health plan as needed for treatment or payment or as authorized by you. However, the Privacy Rule does not require the health care provider or health plan to share information with other providers or plans. You do not have the right to access a provider’s psychotherapy notes. Psychotherapy notes are notes taken by a mental health professional during a conversation with the patient and kept separate from the patient’s medical and billing records. The Privacy Rule also does not permit the provider to make most disclosures of psychotherapy notes about you without your authorization. Because HIE 's primary purpose is to improve the quality of medical care, your health care providers ' priorities are to gain and allow access to a comprehensive record of your medical history. When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalizes its “accounting of disclosures” rule, providers that maintain EHRs will have to account to you for all disclosures of your personal health information that it makes for purposes of treatment, payment, and business operations for three years