Assignment on EHR - Script

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EHR - Script
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EHR - SCRIPT1
“How is Calvary Healthcare dealing with the Electronic Health Records within the age
care sector?”
Introduction
Just like a book, article or a journal represents a type of knowledge regarding a specific topic;
similarly, a medical record is a set of documents that provide information and knowledge
regarding the health of a patient and provides the evidence of an encounter between healthcare
professional and patient. The concept of this medical record has come from ancient times
especially from Egypt, Greece and Rome. The form of medical record has come down taking
several forms, from stone tablets during the ancient time to paper documents till 20th Century.
Till the 20th Century, medical records have been a combination of auto-reported patient
information with the typically recorded physician diagnosis observations on paper-based media.
The use of the paper based documents as the medical records had a significant number of
disadvantages. Like, the paper medical records required physical space for storage purposes,
backup is not available for paper-based medical records. So if a fire catches or any other incident
occurs then it will wipe out all the documents and will destroy them. In the paper medical
records the procedure of storing information was manually writing information which is both
time consuming and with a higher degree of error. Thus, to counter these disadvantages, a new
computerized system was developed as known as the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a computer version of the medical history of an
individual, which the physician retains over time and may include any important statistical
clinical data pertaining to the treatment of that patient in the sense of a single hospital, including
community, improvement reports, issues, prescriptions etc.

EHR - SCRIPT2
The use of paper medical records was found to be difficult and very challenging during the new
era. Many of the disadvantages were paper-intrinsic. Such inconveniences can be broken down
into four sections: organisational, logistic, research and paper’s passive aspect of information.
Organizational applies to ways in which the information is stored in a file and also describes the
data recovery processes. Logistic means the actual use of the health information. This deals with
topics such as wear and tear, device retention and information exchange. Research describes the
way information can be used to conduct studies, and paper’s passive aspect of information refers
to the idea that paper cannot deliberately pick out flaws that might have resulted in data entry.
Thus, it was seen that the EHR system is better compared to the paper based medical record.
Calvary Healthcare
The Calvary Healthcare was started by Mary Potter and the sisters who belonged to the Little
Company of Mary. Currently, Calvary Healthcare control fourteen government and private
healthcare organizations, seventeen retirement and aged care services and a nation-wide service
of community care centres.
Calvary Healthcare is responsible for 14 residential care facilities in New South Wales (NSW),
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and South Australia (SA). The organization is committed to
holistic, resident focused care.
The Australian Government subsidizes residential aged care in Australia and is regulated by the
Aged Care Act 1997. Residential elderly care offers a number of care options and housing for
older people who cannot live independently. The Calvary Healthcare is a residential aged care.