¬¬¬ Practice Models, Electronic Health Records, and Networking Fatima Stuart Grantham University Before I can describe the differences that exist between home health, palliative care, hospice, public health, nurse-managed health centers, and other practice models, I must first define each. Home healthcare, as its name would suggest, is the delivery of healthcare services that are provided for a patient in their home for injury or health problems, ultimately promoting self-care and independence (Nelson & Staggers, 2014a., p. 149). Palliative care, on the other hand, is medical care that is provided by teams of specialized clinicians for patients who have a serious illness that has surpassed curative treatment measures. …show more content…
A clinical data repository (CDR) is a storage database that collects patient information; either manual or automated, from multiple sources and houses them in one single document, allowing for better care quality. The disadvantage this component is that a patient’s record can grow tremendously large with data that become less relevant with time. The master person index (MPI) is an electronic medical database that stores information on every person, patient, or customer registered at a healthcare organization. The MPI stores demographic information to include name, address, phone numbers, date of birth, and sex of each registered member (Nelson & Staggers, 2014b., p.199). Used for data collection, review and reporting, patient management, and clinician productivity, clinical applications provide the interactive views of the EHR to clinicians. Lastly, a data dictionary is a collection of the medical vocabulary terms that are used to describe the type of data that is collected within the repository. The data dictionary is important for the use of the EHR because it is the key source for providing definitions for all the terms and their corresponding codes within the EHR (Nelson & Staggers, 2014b., p. …show more content…
A health information organization (HIO) is a government-led non-profit health organization that supports the 2009 HITECH Act mandate for sharing health information between EHRs. While not a positive one, a possible outcome I see for RHIOs is the limitation of ho is allowed to access the information in the network as well as what specific data is made available on the network, ultimately hindering the fullest potential of these networking