E-Health technology helps to improve the health care services for all those who have and continue to put everything on the line.
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What are Alternate Delivery Systems?
Definition: Health services provided in other than an inpatient, acute-care hospital or private practice. A phrase used to describe all forms of health care delivery except traditional fee-for-service, private practice. The term includes HMOs, PPOs, IPAs, and other systems of providing health care.
Examples within general health services include skilled and intermediary nursing facilities, hospice programs, and home health care. Alternate delivery systems are designed to provide needed services in a more cost-effective manner. Most of the services provided by community mental health centers fall into this category.
Technology is the best hope to stop the gap in care in underserved areas and regions of our country.
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As Medical Charts Go Electronic, Rural Doctor Sees Healthy Change
Are you familiar with the All-Payer System?
Definition: A system in which prices for health services and payment methods are the same, regardless of who is paying. For instance, in an all-payer system, federal or state government, a private insurer, a self-insured employer plan, an individual, or any other payer could pay the same rates. The uniform fee bars health care providers from shifting costs from one payer to another. See cost shifting.
What
are Electronic Health Records (E-Health Records)?
Definition: An electronic record of patient health information generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting. Included in this information are patient demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data, and radiology reports.
The
E-Health Record automates and streamlines the clinician's workflow.
The
E-Health Record has the ability to generate a complete record of a clinical
patient encounter, as well as supporting other care-related activities directly
or indirectly via interface--including evidence-based decision support, quality
management, and outcomes reporting.
An
E-Health Record is generated and maintained within an institution, such as a
hospital, integrated delivery network, clinic, or physician office.
