Essays on Cerner

EHRs

Electronic Health Records are a broad category of HITs containing a patient’s clinical history. The system’s primary user is the provider and would encompass primary clinical information relevant and unique to the patient from the provider’s perspective. Some of the information contained in EHRs include demographics, medication reports, patient charts, laboratory data, and past medical information. Thus, the system is an automated version of patient information offered as part of the support process from various interface users (Keyhani et al., 2008). This paper considers the lifecycle of EHRs through a description of the process involved in ...

The Cerner EHRs offers important tools for hospitals to meet federal standards on HIT management and daily workflow improvement. This EHRs has a widespread presence in my organization save for the ER department. In essence, users at the organizational level utilize Cerner for the collection, organization, storage, and transmission of patient health information. The system encompasses a dashboard for quick information views based on appointments and patient identity. Also, patients have a limited access to a portal that allows for insights on appointments, lab, and treatment plans (Fairbanks, 2016a). Contrarily, MEDHOST’s EDIS stands for emergency department information system. ...

I conducted an interview on the benefits and effects of EHRs in healthcare settings. I determined that the organization uses the CERNER EHR system in almost all its departments. This HIT is common to almost all healthcare organizations. CERNER offers a series of tools and features ideal for meeting federal regulations and daily workflows concerning patient health records. In essence, CERNER encompasses a scheduling dashboard that allows users to view information on appointments and their respective charts (Fairbanks, 2016). The concept map below offers a further outline of my interview with hospital staff on CERNER.

Pros for CERNER

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Chronic bronchitis is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that is characterized by excessive bronchial mucus secretion and a productive cough that usually lasts three months or longer in two consecutive years. Abnormalities associated with chronic bronchitis are thickened bronchial walls, mucosal inflammation in the walls and airways, and hypertrophied and hyperplastic mucus glands (Arcangelo & Peterson, 2013). The recommended drug treatment for controlling chronic bronchitis is divided into three lines (Arcangelo & Peterson, 2013). First, aminopenicilins, such as ampicillin and amoxicillin, are usually sufficient for simple chronic bronchitis cases. Second, in complicated chronic bronchitis, second-generation or third-generation ...

Asthma is a chronic pulmonary disorder. The inflammation of the airways and their hyper-responsiveness is responsible for several symptoms, which include coughing, wheezing, feeling of tightness in the chest area, and shortage of breath. Other characteristics of asthma include increased eosinophils, increased tissue contractibility, and thickened lamina reticularis. Although asthma has an early onset, all age groups can suffer from asthma, and all patients are at risk for acute asthma exacerbation, which leads to high morbidity and mortality rates. Because asthma is a chronic disorder, drug therapy needs to be controlled and aimed at managing the disorder. A stepwise approach ...