With the advance of technology and constantly advancing in the healthcare field, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has been pushing for a change in the healthcare industry. The main goal of health IT is to improve the quality and safety of patient care. One of the changes that IOM has indicated timeliness, efficiency, equitability, safety, and effectiveness of care is quality aims that should guide healthcare reform (Watkins et al, 2012). eHealth initiative outcomes include benefits to providers and to patients, expanding technological tools, and even more use of Internet-based activities.
The impact of the health initiative is enabling more informed decision-making and enhanced quality of care. Creates more efficient, convenient and potentially
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This way patient does not waste time and avoid any miscommunication between the staff and patients. The questionnaire is also provided to the patient in multiple languages, this way patient will not have to take their children out from school to go with them to doctor office visit to translate.
With the tablets devices providing the question for patients it will save the organization money in the long run. Through the tablets questioner, it eliminated papers and patient privacy.
EHR have advanced our organization check-in process by making it more efficient and provide patient with better secure from the moment patient steps through the door to the moment they see the doctor. The registration process beings with Patient Secure, which is a palm scanning technology where patient, will place their palm on a scanner and then it will scan their palms. Once their palm is scanned patient medical chart will come into view and then the staff will hand patient the tablet with the registration application and information. All the forms patient fills out will be linked to the EHR system, which is pre-populated with patient’s name and