Electronic Health Record

32. What regulations exist to safeguard data and patients when using an EHR?
What legal considerations play a role in use and maintenance of an EHR?
What role does the nurse play in upholding legal, ethical, and regulatory integrity of the EHR?
Why does JCAHO care about informatics? What can accreditation offer a hospital? If a facility is found non-compliant, what could be the result?
Additionally, please read the below scenario and answer the following:
If you were the privacy officer in your organization, how would you address the following?
Tracking each point of access of the patient’s database, including who entered the data.
Encouraging employees to report privacy and security breaches.
The healthcare professionals are using smartphones, iPads and other mobile devices. How do you address privacy when data can literally walk out of your setting?
You observe one of the healthcare professionals using his smartphone to take pictures of a patient. He sees you and says, in front of the patient, “I am not capturing her face!” How do you respond to this situation?
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2018). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
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In the case of the wide-spread use for electronic medical records in the medical field the biggest obstacle to entry is without doubt the need to safeguard the privacy of patients and their privacy of medical data (Kruse and al. 2017). CMS states that CMS, “an electronic health record (EHR) is an electronic version of a person’s medical history which is kept by the doctor in the course of time. It could contain all administrative support evidence for a person’s medical care with a particular provider, such as the trends in demographics, progress notes issues, prescription drugs and vital signs, as well as past healthcare history, vaccinations and other laboratory information, and radiology reports” (Kruse and co. 2017). Although EHRs are often portrayed as the future trend however, it’s essential to be aware about the cybersecurity practices commonly associated with their use prior to making any major modifications (Liu et al., 2019,) It is important to understand that the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Act and the Health Information Privacy Act (HIPAA) both require strict security measures because of the confidential nature of information stored in EHRs. Cont…