Question

A hospital and an independent physician association (IPA) comprising 600 physicians have elected to apply to participate in the accountable care organization (ACO) program sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The hospital and IPA will agree to provide healthcare to a minimum of 5000 Medicare beneficiaries. Because the individual entities are required to report to Medicare as one entity on 33 quality metrics, including seven patient encounter caregiver experience elements, the ACO is interested in facilitating the widespread adoption of electronic medical records within the ACO. Accordingly, the hospital intends to provide assistance to the individual physicians to obtain electronic health records. In addition, the individual physicians will be required to achieve Meaningful Use and comply with policies and procedures of the ACO. Regardless of the electronic health record they would like to purchase, the individual physicians will be required to exchange health information electronically to improve effective communication between healthcare providers, reduce duplicate visits, and lower the overall cost of delivering care to the Medicare beneficiaries.

1. Explain how the arrangement should be established to permit the hospital to assist the healthcare providers in obtaining electronic health records.

Answer 1

Arrangement of hospital:

• In the hospital consists of physicians, nurses and other health care professionals help to hospital administration in order to improve health condition of the people.
• In olden days in the hospital settings the people use to right in the records it is called as documentation but in advanced technology the science has improved and discovery of electric health records.
• Electronic health records needs software or backbone play an important role in the patient information.
• The trained person is needed to operate the electronic health record.
• The electronic health records are are help to store the information, and also helps in telecommunication with the doctor in case urge conditions.
• Through the electronic health records we can also learn about different types of procedures like operating of ventilators.