Effects of EHR on HIM in the last 3 years

The Effect of EHRs on the Functions of HIM
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Introduction
The emergence of Electronic Health Records brought many changes to the general system of health care. One of the areas it directly influenced was the Health Information Management (HIM) as both of them dealt with data. In this paper, the author will outline the impact of EHRs on the Functions of HIM by reviewing a set of well-researched five sources. It focuses on both the positive and negative effects of EHRs.
Keywords: EHRs, HIMs, Impacts, Negative, Positive

Engelbrecht, R., & Nicholson, L. (2015). Methods for Better Health: Big Data, Personal Health and More. International Journal on Biomedicine and Healthcare, 45–51.
Application
Health Information Management or HIM refers to the practice of caring and maintaining health records by both electrical and paper-based (traditional) means. The latter, however, makes effective sharing of information almost impossible, making Electronic Health Records (EHRs) a must-have feature of the HIM functions. One of the ways through which EHRs assist the Health Information Managers is that it provides the tools for big data analytics. With the significance, variety and volume of data in health organizations growing from time to time, it is crucial that that Health Information Managers have a proper understanding of big data to know how to synthesize relevant information as well as analyzing it. With EHRs management of data becomes easierCITATION Rol15 p 45 l 1033 (Engelbrecht & Nicholson, 2015, p.

45). With the help of this material, Health Information Managers can learn how to handle big data.
Blackford Middleton, M. B., Koppel, R., Overhage, J. M., Payne, T. H., Rosenbloom, T., Weaver, C., & Zhang, J. (2013). Enhancing patient safety and quality of care by improving the usability of electronic health record systems: recommendations from AMIA. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Application
This material is relevant to this research because it outlines the usability of the EHRs enhances both care quality and patient safety. In a study by the AMIA, a group of researchers studied the usability of EHRs, stating that its proper implementation is beneficial to the Health Information managers in many ways. For example, it is a crucial decision-making tool in clinical cases, determining therapeutic interventions, business processes, and ensuring quality outcomes. It is also help them facilitate the validation and development of programmed measures of performance for assessing medical errors and cases of adverse eventsCITATION Bla13 l 1033 (Blackford Middleton, et al., 2013).
Nail, P. A., & Huang, Y.-L. (2015). Engineering the EMR habitat through workflow design in a specialty setting. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management.
Application
This source guides HIM professionals on how they can utilize electronic workflows in their day-to-day operations. According to Nail and Huang (2015), EHRs has initiated several revolutionary transformations in HIM, allowing HIM Department Directors, Staff and Managers to integrate electronic workflows with the existing procedures to provide evidence-based work. With the modern technologies such as EHRs becoming the wave of the modern-day healthcare documentation, HIM professionals have found it easy to upgrade their functions. For example, they use computer-aided coding, patient portals, health information exchange, and voice recognition software, to improve health care provision and management of patient information. As a result, they have learnt to utilize EHRs in managing data with efforts to harness their influence information management and patient careCITATION Pat15 p 124 l 1033 (Nail & Huang, 2015, p. 124).
Blobel, B. (2015). Paradigm Changes of Health Systems Towards Ubiquitous, Personalized Health Leads to Paradigm Changes of Security and Privacy Ecosystems. International Jounal on Biomedicine and Healthcare, 6–11.
Application
The Blobel’s work directs HIM professionals on use the modern health technologies to improve the privacy and security of data. With the help of Electronic Health Records, HIM Managers, Staff and Department Directors can join forces to improve the safety and quality of health care provision and enhancing both the efficacy and efficiency of the HIM functions. Thy can also extend the use of EHRs to handling the technological and methodological issues of managing health data at the departmental and organization levels. For that reason, EHRs reshapes and redefines the roles and practices of HIMCITATION Ber15 p 6 l 1033 (Blobel, 2015, p. 6).
Schlenke, A., & Bohun, A. (2015). Keystroke Dynamics for Security Enhancement in Hospital Information Systems. International Jounal on Biomedicine and Healthcare, 41–44.
Application
Schlenke and Bohun reckon, through their work, the improving the security of information is the best way through which HIM professionals can handle big data. The emergence of EHRs ushered the transformation of the paper-based recording. Similarly, EHRs eliminated and re-engineered all the HIM functions that supported paper records. It is through such an approach that EHRs prompted the HIM executives and professionals within organizations to envision the virtual department of HIM and map measures for attaining success with the help of the EHRsCITATION Ann15 p 41 l 1033 (Schlenke & Bohun, 2015, p. 41).
Conclusion
Technology seems to know no boundaries as it influences almost every aspect of life. One of the fields that directly benefit from the advancements of technology is health, with the emergence of Electronic Health Records being one of the technological landmarks. Just as this paper outlined, the EHRs impact Health Information Management in more than one level. Although this research focused on the positive effects of EHRs on HIM, it provides sufficient information that one use to review the negatives too.
References
BIBLIOGRAPHY l 1033 Blackford Middleton, M. B., Koppel, R., Overhage, J. M., Payne, T. H., Rosenbloom, T., Weaver, C., & Zhang, J. (2013). Enhancing patient safety and quality of care by improving the usability of electronic health record systems: recommendations from AMIA. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001458
Blobel, B. (2015). Paradigm Changes of Health Systems Towards Ubiquitous, Personalized Health Leads to Paradigm Changes of Security and Privacy Ecosystems. International Jounal on Biomedicine and Healthcare, 6–11. Retrieved from http://www.ijbh.org/ijbh2015-1.pdf
Engelbrecht, R., & Nicholson, L. (2015). Methods for Better Health: Big Data, Personal Health and More. International Journal on Biomedicine and Healthcare, 3(1), 45–51. Retrieved from http://www.ijbh.org/ijbh2015-1.pdf
Nail, P. A., & Huang, Y.-L. (2015). Engineering the EMR habitat through workflow design in a specialty setting. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 15(2), 124-141. Retrieved from http://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJHTM.2015.074554
Schlenke, A., & Bohun, A. (2015). Keystroke Dynamics for Security Enhancement in Hospital Information Systems. International Jounal on Biomedicine and Healthcare, 41–44. Retrieved from http://www.ijbh.org/ijbh2015-1.pdf