Technology Infrastructures for Healthcare Access to Rural Residents Ess

prone the new passage of the heath tuition bill, and complicated language within the bill it is unclear if electronic wellness records (EHR) systems will be mandatory. Nonetheless, research indicates that electronic Health Records improve tolerant safety and satisfaction. However, the implementation salute of this process is significant. Memorial Hospital in Wyoming, a 99 bed hospital, implemented a full electronic medical records system in 18 months at a cost of $2 million dollars. Memorial Hospital did have a prosperous implementation and was able to stay within budget and on-time (Lessons Learned, 2009). search indicates that initial cost of EHR systems is $44,000 per full-time employee (FTE) with the ongoing maintenance cost of $8500 per FTE (Miller, West, Broem, Ganchoff, 2005). Given the significant cost it is very important that the culture of the organization is develop for the transformation from wallpaper to electronic. Creating an implementation strategy will he lp discipline the project stays on time and budget. Health information engineering (health IT) enables healthcare providers to improve patient care by secure expenditure while sharing health information with others as authorized by the patient. The use of electronic health records (EHRs) constitutes Health IT as opposed to paper medical records to retain peoples health information (US Dept of Health, 2010). In addition, Health IT allows a secure exchange between healthcare providers and consumers in the management of healthcare information. It is hoped that Health IT will both improve patient care and our domains healthcare system. There are two classifications of electronic health record systems. First, products such as Microsoft Vault and Google Health, allow an individual pe... ...urthermore, rude Americans have a much higher rate of obesity compared to the urban population. In fact, the obesity crisis in plain American has surfaced since 1980. Prior to 1980, the rural pop ulation had a much lower rate of obesity than the urban population (Tai-Seale and Chandler, 2003). In addition, if the baby boomers follow past life-cycle age colligate migration patterns to rural areas, 30 percent more adult age 55-75 will live in rural areas by 2020 (Cromartie and Nelson, 2009). The graph below illustrates the recent and projected nonmetro population change among 55-74 year olds in the Midwest. While entropy was available for all five U.S. regions, the researchers focused on the Midwest as this research was conducted in the Midwest (SourceUSDA, Economic search Service using data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National decoct for Health Statistics).