Newman's Certified Electronic Health Records Technician Study Guide

By xaiver newman

As with most other industries, the healthcare field is taking hold of 21st century technology, and changing the way doctors care for their patients.  Regulated by the government among healthcare professionals nationwide, electronic health record management is making it easier and more convenient for providers in all facets to improve the coordination of patient care because all healthcare providers can have access to the same information, at the tip of their fingers.  Electronic health records (EHRs) capture patients' health information, such as medical history, allergies, laboratory test results, radiology images, and payment, in an electronic form that enables clinicians and other providers to access and share the information across medical specialties or facilities.                                    Heres what you'll learn from this text:
Healthcare delivery systems with a particular focus on content and documentation requirements of the health record.
Hands-on experience using Medcin software simulating admission procedures, information retention and retrieval, data entry and collection, chart assembly, abstracting, code sets and the release of information.
How the EHR supports communication and continuity of care with clinical standards such as SNOWMED CT, LOINC, and UMLS.
Importance of the medical record as a legal document and confidentiality laws.
Code set principles, in particular as they relate to the ambulatory/outpatient setting.
Ways in which the EHR impacts workflow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: xaiver Rauf newman
• Release date: Sep 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781497720305

xaiver newman

Professor Newman has consulted with and advised hundreds of faculty and graduate students in the complexities of the competency based educational design. Along with his 15 years of combined civilian and military experience driven by a desire to provide top-notch Allied Health Education. Professor Newman has set a general academic canonical by prompting an allied health standardization analysis which has been adopted by propriety for-profit academia. Coupled with his dynamic presentation of the allied health subject theorem/practicum, Professor Newman has published numerous scholarly texts ranging from an interpretive series on the International Classification of Diseases 10 edition, to a medical laboratory assistant study series.

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Introduction

Managing information, once a daunting task, is now the current trend.  Access to health information is changing the ways doctors care for their patients.  Doctors now have access to a patient’s medical history, surgeries, allergies to medicines, and recent doctor’s visits all at the press of a button.  This recent technology that intertwines health information from a variety of sources is known as an electronic health record.  An electronic health record (EHR) is a computerized lifelong health care record with data from all sources.

Electronic Health Record Specialists- Overview

Every encounter an individual has with the health care system is documented.  Lab tests, prescriptions, and trips to the emergency room are all a part of that individual’s health care.  The accuracy of that individual’s health document is extremely important.  Whether in the clinical or administrative field of the allied healthcare system, every member is expected to know how to input information into an electronic health record.  This surge of new technology will open many opportunities in the growing allied health care field.  Some of these new positions will include: a clinical analyst, health information technician, and a records and information coordinator. 

As with many other fields, individuals with certification generally have an easier time finding employment.  They typically earn higher salaries and indicate that the individual has met standards of the certifying institution.

EHR Specialist’s duties will vary with size and specialty of the facility in which they may work. Many can specialize in varying areas or one aspect of the EHR such as entry level coders, encoding within a hospital setting, abstractors and or coding specialist, HIPAA Compliance Officers or HIM (Health Information Managers) and be