Milestone One: Organizational Overview and Applications
Organizational Overview and Applications
Ashley Albright
Southern New Hampshire University
Organizational Overview and Applications
Organization
The healthcare organization, Alpha, is a hospital with 150 beds and 5 beds that are
designated for intensive care. The emergency department is designated as a level III trauma
center. Within Alpha, there are five designated care areas and thirteen auxiliary service lines as
well as an outpatient service and a community wellness program. The five designated care areas
consist of: outpatient surgery, orthopedic surgery, women's health, pediatric and cardiology. The
auxiliary services are made up of five family practice clinics, two internal medicine clinics, a
cardiology clinic, a neurology clinic, an orthopedic and sports medicine clinic, an eye care clinic.
a women's health clinic, and a pediatric clinic. Alpha is in search of a solution that will allow
information to be shared seamlessly and be user friendly for the staff.
The stakeholders that need to be a part of EHR selection are clinicians, office staff,
billing department and administration. Clinicians should be involved in the process because they
are on the front lines providing care to patients and need to feel as if the EHR that is selected fits
their needs. Office staff is important because they are responsible for inputting billing, contact,
responsible for submitting claims for payment; it is important that they are working with a
system that allows claims to be processed efficiently and correctly. Administration needs to be
involved with the selection process because they need to be shown that the EHR system that is
being selected is going to be an investment. Administration is responsible for financial and
operational decisions. (Green, 2018)
Applications: Health Informatics
Health informatics uses information systems and technology to efficiently deliver
healthcare services, manage health organizations and personnel, and perform strategic planning
Organizational Overview and Applications
and uses the data generated to make decisions that impact the processes and technology. (Sayles
& Kavanaugh-Burke, 2021) An application that should be present in an EHR regarding health
informatics is an electronic medical record (EMR). An EMR is an electronic collection of patient
health information and clinical care that is stored, managed and referred to buy authorized
members of one healthcare entity and is comprehensive in terms of the patient's health, care and
services that were provided. (Sayles & Kavanaugh-Burke, 2021)
Applications: Requirements
"Meaningful Use was a regulation that was issued by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid outlining an incentive program for eligible professionals, hospitals, and critical access
hospitals that adopt and successful demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHR technology."
(Sayles & Kavanaugh-Burke, 2021) The EHR product must meet criteria and standards for
functionality and inoperability in order to be certified. Health care organizations using certified
electronic health record technology (CEHRT) can then be applied and qualified for the
meaningful use incentive program. There are three components that were specified for
Meaningful Use; these all require the use of CEHRT. The three components are: "must be used in
a meaningful way