Bridging Technologies: Secure Messaging, Scanned Records and EMR

This report investigates the role of bridging technologies, specifically secure messaging and scanned medical records, in facilitating the adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) within large healthcare centers. It addresses the concerns of established institutions regarding EMR implementation and highlights the efficiency and benefits of these technologies in streamlining data management and enhancing patient care. The report provides an overview of bridging technologies, their real-world applications, and the advantages and disadvantages of secure messaging and scanned medical records. It emphasizes the importance of HIPAA compliance, data security, and the transition from paper-based systems to cloud-based digital workflows. The report also discusses the use of these technologies to digitize clinical and business records, accelerate the transition to EMR, and improve communication between healthcare professionals, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes and reduced operational costs.

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Executive Summary
Large healthcare centers with a well-established employee base are worried about moving to an
EMR system to accomplish tasks within the health care centers. This report highlights the use as
well as the efficiency of Secure Messaging plus Scanned Medical Records like bridging
technologies in order to support the execution and successful adoption of electronic medical
records.
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Bridging Technology.......................................................................................................................4
Overview of bridging technologies.................................................................................................5
Use & Effectiveness of Bridging Technologies..............................................................................6
Bridging technologies real world implementation..........................................................................7
Pros and cons of bridging technologies entry point to EMR adoption............................................9
Pros and cons of Secure Messaging.............................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12
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Introduction
With regard to data effectiveness, the healthcare centers confront several difficulties. Nowadays,
conditions of several healthcare firms are becoming critical. The delicate data goes through
various touch points and centers, including specialists, medical caretakers, patients, protection
suppliers and labs, and needs to move quickly as emergencies or crisis happens immediately.
There is a need of some secured bridging technology so that the large amount of data will be
traded off quickly, and safely, and guarantee that the patient classification and information
security should be ensured along with every work process performed in health care center. This
immense push for proficient and cost effective procedures to manage patients’ data has also
driven the healthcare centers to move from documents and fax communication systems to cloud-
based protected computerized data work processes. Today, most of the healthcare firms utilize
secure messaging as well as scanned medical records as a bridging technology for easy and
smooth storage of patients’ medical records.
Bridging Technology
Healthcare departments empower the enhanced advanced coordination of medical healthcare
between unaffiliated frameworks, including the data sharing of finished wellbeing records, huge
picture documents, and test outcomes. Bridging technology will extraordinarily diminish the
extra burden of keeping medical records by the healthcare coordination groups, and will also
drive down the expenses, and enhance the patients’ experiences. Since protection, as well as
security, is fundamental while participating in Healthcare associated informing, suppliers must
avoid the potential risk to guard the data. Bridging technologies simply become a bridge to fill
the huge gap between the clinicians and the technology. The bridging technology
implementation gives the scale as well as the scope of EHR or EMR installations that occur and
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maintain to occur in the coming five years. Bridging technologies digitizes the clinical as well as
business records plus accelerates the transition to the EMR. Success starts when health centers
with have right technology. At Bridging, health centers value as well as mentor each member of
health centers growing team.
Overview of bridging technologies
Secure Messaging: Switching from hand-written records, fax, messenger, and email to
computerized records and secure correspondences; it spares time and cash for Healthcare
experts. X-rays of patients can be messaged from experts to specialists, outlines and lab results
can be shared among specialists and authorities, protection cases can be assisted, and medicinal
structures can be rounded out and marked electronically (Uzuntarla, 2016). At the point, when
these exchanges are approved and secured all through the trade, medicinal services laborers
increment profitability and patients could give and get data quickly, without stressing on their
health care data that could be in danger
Scanned Medical Records: Managing persistent wellbeing records, medicines, and transcripts
electronically have radically enhanced the proficiency of patients' data. Medical Records
Scanning administrations help Practices, Hospitals, and Clinics add paper-based Patient Charts to
EMR and EHR Systems (DePasse, Chen, Sawyer, Jethwani&Sim, 2014). As an expanding
number of Healthcare Organizations actualize EMR and EHR Systems, the significance of
Medical Records checking is developing exponentially. Numerous clinicians have stood by the
truth that, filtering the majority of the inheritance tolerant graph data is frequently a greater test
than at first anticipated.
Use & Effectiveness of Bridging Technologies
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Use and effectiveness of Secure Messaging: Secure, HIPAA-agreeable content informing
arrangements are amazingly imperative in the realm of present-day prescription. These
applications can help specialists, medical attendants, and other clinic staff, to streamline the
productivity of their patient care, enhances work processes, and limit interferences (Holden,
2014). Also, a solitary devoted interchanges stage can enable the medical staff to speak with
each other all the more adequately when outside of work, while as yet staying agreeable with
HIPAA benchmarks, and keeping away from conceivably soak fines. Moreover, the secured
information doesn't simply enable the medical staff to plainly become more productive. Secure
messaging is a great way to secure information and enable health centre to accomplish better
patient results. Securing individual data while it's on the Smartphone and requiring a PIN code to
get messages related to individual data. This provides the capability for beneficiaries to
recognize the sender’s message and comprehend the setting around the message as opposed to
receive a sketchy note from an unknown number. Capacity to track the status of a message, when
it had been got, opened, and so forth.
Use and effectiveness of Scanned Medical Records: From a healing facility director's view, the
presentation of an EMR framework may appear to be overwhelming, be that as it may, the $14.6
billion in government give financing expects to make this change to the computerized records
administration less excruciating for doctors’ facilities(McIntosh & Bishop, 2016).HITECH
commanded that healing facility must give confirmation of EMR framework transformation for
80% of patients, keeping in mind the end goal to get further concede financing. As the reception
of electronic restorative records to proceed with, it is vital that medicinal service suppliers
change over to computerized records administration, to profit both the patient and the social
insurance supplier. The exchange of medical records between the workplaces is less tedious and
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considerably more proficient. Healing facility stays are lessened with more productive
procedures and programmed steering of medical data. Fewer oversights are made that could
influence the tolerant care since persistent data can be effortlessly get and put away from any
office, doctor's facility, or practice. Despite the fact, that Healthcare suppliers have been eased
back to embrace the electronic restorative records, the proceeding with the slant towards this
speedier, more proficient plan of action is drawing nearer (Haun, Lind, Shimada & Simon,
2013). The doctors anxious to grasp this innovation will be at the front line of their industry with
less record-related blunders and better administration.
Bridging technologies real world implementation
Secure Messaging influences to secure and affirm, easy to share, and consent restorative records
in social insurance focuses (Whitacre, 2016). Secure informing causes Centers to gain by social
insurance's computerized change by unraveling the worries examined already and conveying a
work process device that offers something beyond encryption (Shenson, Cronin, Davis, Chen &
Jackson, 2015). Secure Messaging empowers the healthcare experts in any approved part to
share, track, as well as control the wellbeing related records and documents safely. Additionally,
Secure Messaging turns into a gainful apparatus, empowering clinicians to e-sign and approve
work processes and trade substantial records without endangering information trustworthiness or
protection. Secure Messaging incorporates effectively into regular email programs plus
completely practical on cell phones, giving clients the secured information, emails, and
document sharing. Sending secured messages has turned into an accepted method for imparting
the overall population. It's advantageous and quick. The recipient is responsible for when to
peruse and answer to a message, and overlooking it if it's not pressing, and answering when
critical. Short and significant messages are a perfect method for imparting rapidly and
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effectively. The ascent of PDAs in the overall population likewise mirrored their utilization in
social insurance. There are several examinations that finish up the ascent of cell phones as well
as tablets among doctors. The pattern is prevalent to the point, that numerous healing centers
have received BYOD approaches (Ben-Assuli&Leshno, 2013). Albeit mechanically sharp
specialists are bringing cell phones into their working environment, advancement in clinic
correspondence hasn't definitely changed since the presentation of the pager. With such vast
numbers of accessible alternatives and gadgets, no massive surprise, a breakdown in
correspondence is a typical issue in clinics. Truth be told, as indicated by a Joint charge report,
it's attached to over 70% of all detailed sentinel occasions in 2013.
Patients have the privilege to get the duplicates of most restorative records. Specialists' notes,
therapeutic test outcomes, lab reports as well as charging data should be provided if legitimately
asked. Electronic records administration and programming framework make assuming quick and
proficient to hunt, find and give those records (Peters & Khan, 2014). Today, more than 45,000
patients also have agreed to accept the checking technique since at first taking off. Scanned
medical records likewise have been examined by different methods for recognizable proof, for
example, restorative cards with standardized identifications, however, chose palm filtering is
more precise. Understanding the security of patients’ records is likewise banded together with
numerous other healing facilities that have been arranged around the country. However, data
between the doctor's facilities aren't shared as well as palm scanning systems aren't trying to
therapeutic records. When examining the medical records, Patient Charts and Quality Control or
Management is fundamental. That is the reason we survey each picture to guarantee the
lucidness and quality. Each picture is precisely examined to guarantee that nothing misses out
amid the checking procedure. Checking medicinal records into an electronic shape has many
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advantages yet beginning this procedure can overpower (Palen, 2013). In case that medicinal
services centers’ outsource the filtering and do it without anyone else's help, an extraordinary
checking organization can offer the proficient counsel keeping in mind the end goal to make the
progress as effortless as could be allowed.
Pros and cons of bridging technologies entry point to EMR adoption
Pros and cons of Secure Messaging
Pros: With too much restorative and money related data coursing, the center’s need to think
about secure informing and record sharing arrangements that adjust to HIPAA prerequisites
without trading off the usefulness and work process of their current email Pal, Biswas
&Mukhopadhyay, 2015). Secure Messaging coordinates effortlessly into regular email programs
as well as is completely utilitarian on cell phones, furnishing your clients with secure informing,
e-marks, document sharing, and in addition, messaging the following ideal in their current email
utilizing the accessible email addresses (Kazley&Ozcan, 2013).
Cons: Data ruptures happen for an assortment of reasons, counting from programmers,
accidental email botches, deliberate information spillage, burglary or removal of tablets and
electronic gadgets, and unapproved access to data servers and documents (Burmeister, 2017).
The results of an unapproved revelation of patient’s private social insurance and budgetary data
are noteworthy and incorporate powerful fines and punishments for rebelliousness claims and
harmed notorieties. For instance, since 2009, secured wellbeing information of roughly 31.4
million individuals in the Australia and US has been traded off in security breaks, bringing about
$25.1 billion in fines against the Medical or Healthcare Centers.
Pros and cons of Scanned Medical Records
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Pros: The storage of therapeutic records is a region where electronic restorative records appear
to have an edge. Healing facilities and medicinal suppliers regularly have distribution centers
loaded with paper-based medical records. One big advantage of Scanned Medical Records is that
this typeface is pretty much institutionalized and clear over all medical records (Choi, Kuo,
Goodwin & Lee, 2016). Scanned medical records save time as well as money of healthcare
centers Be that as it may; specialists or their partners who are new to the accepted procedures of
word handling innovation may discover it tedious to enter the medical records electronically.
Other fundamental advantages of Scanned Medical Records are that it is very easy to impart
them to different experts momentarily by means of electronic transmission and direct access to
capacity framework.
Cons: Scanned medical records have a few security vulnerabilities. Scanned medical records can
be altered by hackers and the unauthorized individuals within the department can also gain
access by breaking the electronic defense of the storage system. Scanned medical records can
sometimes face the problem of accessibility due to system crashes and other electronic failures.
Conclusion
This study concludes that social insurance centers see the move towards the electronic
information like a tradeoff amongst proficiency and protection. Examining and disposal of a
paper-based medical records are attainable, as utilization of an electronic medical record that
incorporates access to the previous therapeutic record as archive pictures is viewed as
satisfactory by a larger part of the doctors in several clinical offices. Restorative records filtering
experts have the ability to file and output any level of therapeutic records in an auspicious way as
well as at a very sensible cost. The strict healthcare protection rules make the secure messaging
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informing an extreme pitch to mind suppliers. More secure informing is expected to live up to
their desires.
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