ONC-Coordinated Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan



ONC-Coordinated Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan

Introduction

The electronic health records are the best examples of advanced technology of storing the patient records. These records are beneficial, but their emergence has led to many challenges for the health care professionals. To overcome these challenges, the electronic health record mandate is formed. This national electronic health record mandate works as a guideline to ensure that the electronic health records are formed properly, and the information they contain is adequate.

This paper explains the national electronic health record mandate and the role of ONC-Coordinated Federal Health Information Technology in improving the patient access to these electronic health records. I have taken at hospital setting as an example. It is the hospital where I am currently employed. This paper discusses the current status of our health facility and how this status has been affecting the patient related challenges including confidentiality and patient self-determination.

Discussion

The National Electronic Health Mandate (EHR) Mandate

The promotion of electronic health records is the current focused of the health care system. These records are the electronically generated data bases of every individual patient that stores all the necessary information regarding the patient disease and the therapeutic regimen being provided. These electronic records have been proved to be better than the paper based electronic records as the y provides better accessibility, lesser extent of deterioration and patient confidentiality. The misunderstanding of hand writing, real time to write the clinical notes and other errors can be avoided by using the electronic health records. This is perhaps, the reason that these records have gained a lot of popularity in past few years.

President Obama supported the idea of converting all the existing paper based records into electronic data bases (Admin, n.d). The electronic health record mandate is the national program that ensures the implementation of this process with quality and appropriateness. However, the concept was initiated by President Bush, who tried to implement a process in which the electronic health records should be made accessible for everyone. The national electronic health mandate is working to achieve these goals.

ONC-Coordinated Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan

The ONC-Coordinated Federal Health Information Technology system is a vast system that worked in collaboration with the governmental and private sectors to provide appropriate health care services related to the information technology, to all the individuals in United States of America (Department Of Health And Human ...