IHP 450 Module 5 Journal: EMR Justification for Health Center

This assignment, prepared for IHP 450, focuses on the benefits and justification of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for a community health center. It begins by outlining the advantages of EMR, such as preventing medical errors, improving quality of care, and reducing healthcare costs. The assignment then details methods for estimating these benefits, including measuring cost reductions in lab tests, nursing time, and administrative tasks. The core of the assignment is a memo addressed to the community health center's Board of Directors, written from the perspective of a CFO assistant. The memo emphasizes the cost-benefit analysis of EMR, highlighting how the initial investment is offset by long-term savings and improved patient outcomes. The memo also includes a justification for purchasing EMR for the betterment of public health. The assignment utilizes APA style for citations and is based on the mini-case presented in the textbook.

Running head: ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD
Name of Student:
Name of University:
Author’s Note:

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Benefit of EMR
Electronic health record is the official health record of the persons which are used by the
health care professional to assess the medical history and current health status of the person. The
benefits of EMR are outline as follows:
 Prevention of medical error
 Quality of care can be improved
 Reducing in cost of health care
 Facilitate the clinical staffs to access the data of patient at any time and location
(Carroll, Eyler & Denny, 2015).
Ways the benefit can be estimated:
 By measuring the cost incurred in lab test and drug use
 Observing the time saved by nurse in each shifts
 Measuring the cost of transcriptions (Miotto et al., 2016).
 Measuring the operational and financial capabilities
 Observing the time period of communication with patient and health care
professional.

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Memo
To: Community health center’s board of directors
From: CFO assistant
Date xx/xx/xxxx
Subject: Benefit of purchasing EMR
The main purpose of writing is to bring your attention towards purchasing of EMR for better
public health outcome. I would like to highlight my point by emphasizing on cost benefit
analysis of EMR. With the use of EMR new cost has been incurred which includes system and
induced. However, the benefit of EMR has outweighed the high implementation cost. There has
been reduction in cost of paper charts, storage, medical device and human resource from the use
of EMR (Gulliford et al., 2017). Hence purchasing of EMR will not cost high although can bring
better health outcome of the growing population.
Therefore, I request you to look into the justification for purchasing EMR, so that it can be made
available for public good.
Thank you

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Reference
Carroll, R. J., Eyler, A. E., & Denny, J. C. (2015). Intelligent use and clinical benefits of
electronic health records in rheumatoid arthritis. Expert review of clinical immunology, 11(3),
329-337.
Gulliford, M. C., Charlton, J., Prevost, T., Booth, H., Fildes, A., Ashworth, M., ... & Rudisill, C.
(2017). Costs and outcomes of increasing access to bariatric surgery: cohort study and cost-
effectiveness analysis using electronic health records. Value in Health, 20(1), 85-92.
Miotto, R., Li, L., Kidd, B. A., & Dudley, J. T. (2016). Deep patient: an unsupervised
representation to predict the future of patients from the electronic health records. Scientific
reports, 6, 26094.