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MSN 510 Week 1 Assignment: State or National Healthcare
Technology Issue
West Coast University
MSNC 510 – Advanced Nursing Technologies & Collaborative Care
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State or National Healthcare Technology Issue
Healthcare is a complex sector that requires comprehensive integrations
and solutions to provide optimal and seamless patient care. One major
component to a healthcare organization’s success or failure, is the quality of its
electronic health record (EHR) system. EHR systems are used to store, interpret,
and provide comprehensible record of patient medical history, therefore acquiring
a robust EHR system is a core focus in healthcare (McBride, 2022). However,
highquality EHR systems are costly and create big dents in hospital budgets.
Current laws lack cost regulations for approved EHR systems, which hinders
healthcare organizations even further by an absence of legislative support to
manage and regulate these costs. As a result, healthcare systems are obligated to
balance these fiscal offsets by passing down this burden to the patient often
reflected as price increments across medical services. The solution is clear –
regulatory laws that control EHR system cost, while not affecting its delivery of
quality.
In the last decade, the Health Information Technology Act (HITECH) of 2009
has been a major driver of EHR adoption and implementation in the United States
(Redhead, 2009). Although incentives are a part of the act (provided to hospitals
and physicians who adopt EHR implementation), the integration of these systems
MSN 510 Week 1 Assignment: State or National Healthcare
Technology Issue
West Coast University
MSNC 510 – Advanced Nursing Technologies & Collaborative Care
, 2
State or National Healthcare Technology Issue
Healthcare is a complex sector that requires comprehensive integrations
and solutions to provide optimal and seamless patient care. One major
component to a healthcare organization’s success or failure, is the quality of its
electronic health record (EHR) system. EHR systems are used to store, interpret,
and provide comprehensible record of patient medical history, therefore acquiring
a robust EHR system is a core focus in healthcare (McBride, 2022). However,
highquality EHR systems are costly and create big dents in hospital budgets.
Current laws lack cost regulations for approved EHR systems, which hinders
healthcare organizations even further by an absence of legislative support to
manage and regulate these costs. As a result, healthcare systems are obligated to
balance these fiscal offsets by passing down this burden to the patient often
reflected as price increments across medical services. The solution is clear –
regulatory laws that control EHR system cost, while not affecting its delivery of
quality.
In the last decade, the Health Information Technology Act (HITECH) of 2009
has been a major driver of EHR adoption and implementation in the United States
(Redhead, 2009). Although incentives are a part of the act (provided to hospitals
and physicians who adopt EHR implementation), the integration of these systems
