Paperwork is killing
Weird, but not only here but also in the U.S., the greatest power, busy legislators and Congress, government officials and authorities – intensive discussions on health.
Health was and is a major employer in everyone, and affects everyone at Today – Daily.
Americans, as usual, and like our ancestors like “to give them signs”: set up an acronym, make the complex concepts than 3 letters, and now also set the period (after 2000, after 9 September, after Hurricane Katrina, etc.).
What happened after Hurricane Katrina? Not many people know this but to this day, many months after the storm subsided, hundreds of thousands of residents of the affected area in New Orleans and the Gulf – still can not obtain medical information about themselves under medical care.
The reason is simple: the U.S. medical records are based on the traditional briefcase containing stacks of documents and paperwork. These cases (of the people of New – Orleans) just washed into the ocean.
Hence, in the case of necessary medical care to each of them, doctors will have to make decisions based on a feeling, a hunch, and perhaps memory.
So Katrina type storms is quite rare, but not – can not ignore the things given by the following terrifying Congress spokesman: “It is very simple, paper-based medical records are killing people every day. Each year about 100,000 Americans die due to medical billing software, most of them due to poor documentation or poor interpretation of medical information and paperwork. Mortality causes of the damage the U.S. economy 30 billion dollars a year. However, research has shown that compared with patients who had computing in health record – Medical billing software- reduced errors 85%. ”
So far, nothing Congress. What is going on? U.S. health industry turns out she only American industry that still relies on paperwork. During the last 5 years the U.S. conducted dozens of studies anxious sheet Mlocigam.
The bottom line: paper kills. Life-saving computing.
American Health “breaks the head” and assigns resources to edit the research, analyzing alternatives, clarification of technologies, especially – to understand why information technology and computing, which caused a significant transformation in other industries, still not made healthcare industry and was successful.
U.S. has wordplay sounds pretty good: “If you don’t get HIT you with will be hit!”. Which means: If you do not switch to HIT Health Information Technology ie, you just get hit! “.
What really is behind the mantra “Paper kills a computerized health record should be”?
Based portfolios – paperwork can be partial, fragmented, difficult to read, sometimes even hard to find (even those of the people of New – Orleans disintegrated in the Gulf Stream).
With no facts – you can not argue:
A.. Paper-based medical records (PMR – Paper Medical Records) began to disappear and should disappear from the world. Paperwork is killing, we agreed!
On. Computerized medical records (EMR – Electronic Medical Records) gradually become standard.
III. These computerized medical records are in the process of “expansion” computerized health records (EHR-Electronic Health Records): not only classical medical billing subjects, but also carry nursing homes, nutritional, social, Atrafeim and more.
Advantages of computerized health records EHR are (partial list):
On a practical level daily;
Single source of information, updated and accurate
Accessible information and many different parties (subject to permissions)
Information is available at all times and sometimes everywhere
No need storage volumes (archives)
Therapeutic level of service provision
Improving documentation quality (legible, organized, complete)
Better communication with the patient
Quality improvement due to therapy protocols, reminders and other tools
Improving the management of medication
Fewer mistakes, fewer omissions
Spending level
Reducing hours of work costs
Eliminating the need for books, photographs and printing forms
Reducing malpractice insurance premiums and therapeutic (Malpractice)
Revenue and profit level
More accurate and complete billing
Basket of services could expand revenue with it
Ability to perform more operations yield
Level of management efficiency
As “moving paper” (expenses and return of cases)
Simultaneous access of several factors bag
Reducing time to search documents
Improve office communications
Regulatory compliance
That’s it. All (most) is written clearly. Americans “did to us the work.” Now we have to decide how, when, how much?
The Israeli government also recognized the importance of the subject of a computerized record.
Ministry of Health decided in 2004 to establish “a national medical record for Israel.” The then Health Minister Danny Naveh, a steering committee appointed to attend the Director-General, representatives of ministries of health, finance and law, hospitals, health maintenance organizations.
The project objective was defined as “… improving the quality of care by creating a computerized mechanism that allows the retrieval and presentation of data from medical records … … without the need to collect a month of information wherever they care.”
Sharp – Ein among you probably noticed that the “only” medical records and general health.
The manner of government projects, this project is done very slowly in large costs.
In front of these huge investments, we find a small health sector, low budgets: in nursing homes industry. This industry has been running a long time in computer, performs the administrative management, medical and health on an ongoing basis.
U.S.? Also the first American administration, President Bush announced in early 2004 on a computerized medical record project (also the name “merely” a medical record and health) and the project advanced slowly (but much faster pace in Israel).
As for homes in the U.S., almost all of these computer sophistication and integration level, but much lower than the Israeli solutions.
In summary, I would like to add my experience in this field last 15 years:
Health care transition supported by a computerized system enhances the professional pride of the various teams.
Their work becomes more organized, they can focus on the treatment itself and less in La Blerut “and making clerical” of filling countless forms, or in cases Dypup ongoing.
They have less paperwork kills.