Assessment 3 : Manuscript for PublicationÂ
Capella University
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August, 2024
Manuscript for Publication
First of all, the implementation of electronic health records reversed healthcare delivery, characterized by remarkable improvements in workflow efficiency, enhanced patient safety, and quality of care. This manuscript is intended to outline recent efforts taken in healthcare settings for implementing a Cerner EHR System and its impact on interprofessional care teams and stakeholders. This will be based on the effectiveness of the system concerning workflow enhancement and organizational strategic goals. The discussion will also encompass major observations, and concrete benefits, and will further recommend improvements. The strategic sharing with the larger informatics community will add to further efforts in evidence-based practices and inform future EHR implementations for improved patient outcomes and stakeholder satisfaction.
Cerner for an Interprofessional Care Team/Stakeholders
The Cerner EHR System is designed to draw together the various components of health information onto one platform for easy collaboration among interprofessional care teams. Health professionals, such as physicians, nurses, and administrative staff, will be communicating and coordinating more frequently. For instance, interoperability features under Cerner offer an actual sharing of data across departments so that every person on the team is updated with new information regarding the patient (Gomez et al., 2023). This kind of shared access also determines knowledge in decision-making, hence reducing the chances of an error due to isolated or incomplete information. Moreover, it also helps teams to reach timely accurate clinical decisions and improves safety and quality of care for patients with evidence-based guidelines, alerts, and clinical decision support tools (Olakotan & Mohd, 2021).
The EHR systems need designs in health information so that they fit various care settings. For instance, the access to the history of patients and results of tests allowed by Cerner EHR in real-time in acute care settings gives rapid decision-making and enhances emergency care (Ehwerhemuepha et al., 2022). This provides comprehensive integration of data in primary care, supporting the ongoing management of patients to facilitate preventive care. It engages a patient all the time from the home healthcare settings through remote monitoring and enables intervention whenever necessary. Therefore, through adjustments to the functionality of EHR to suit different needs in different care settings, Cerner empowers interprofessional teams to deal more effectively with a very wide range of patient requirements, contributing to better outcomes (Ostern et al., 2021). This aligns with the implementation of adaptable and dynamic EHR systems responding to the modern settings of healthcare.
Enhanced Information System Workflow Promote Safe Practice
Cerner EHR System has improved workflow in all hospital activities by opening up a single fully integrated platform to manage data, which is going to improve healthcare. Real-time access to patient data, clinical decision support, and interoperability across different departments contribute to developing safer and more efficient healthcare practices. It helps to reduce errors and promote accurate decision-making since Cerner EHR facilitates all the processes of documentation and integrates evidence-based clinical guidelines into the system. For example, adequate alerts on probable drug interactions or contraindications will help prevent the actual occurrence of the event, therefore improving patient safety and health care in general (Ehwerhemuepha et al., 2022). It also improves coordination and continuity of care, hence contributing toward safe and effective practice by providing access to, and sharing of, up-to-date information about patients in all care settings.
Moreover, flexibility of the Cerner EHR System towards various healthcare environments ensures systems workflow alignment towards specific care needs and organizational goals. This alignment therefore advances strategic goals for every health organization through improved operational efficiency and raising patient satisfaction. Other health information designs include customized templates and decision support tools, tailored to a variety of clinical settings to meet their unique needs and requirements of practice (Sinsky et al., 2020). It includes evidence-based practices while allowing efficient management of data, hence providing better patient outcomes and general strategic organizational plans. Further assessment and adjustment of the EHR system should be done to meet further evolving healthcare demands in ensuring improvements in the care delivery continuum. Ways through which this system improves quality outcomes include:
- Real-time access to information optimizes the quality of decisions.
- Clinical decision support tools enhance patient safety.
- Interoperability enables collaboration in treatment.
- Customizable workflows minimize errors in documentation.
- Adaptive design for a wide range of clinical needs
- Evidence-based practices to enhance care quality
- Continuing evaluation for improvement in systems.
Strategic Plan of the Organization or Practice Setting
While the hospital strategizes, one must head toward the integration of the Cerner EHR System in Healthcare Organizations for clinical and administrative functions. Those features of the EHR system adopted within the plan have huge potential to enhance operational workflows by health informatics nurses and ensure conformance to organizational goals. For example, some of the features of Cerner promote effective communication and collaboration among interprofessional care teams to support the smooth delivery of quality patient care. This would indeed lead to the achievement of strategic objectives of improved patient outcomes and efficient operations, thus giving way for growth to the cultures of evidence-based practices. The research by Gomez et al. (2023) determined that the alignment of EHR tools within organizational strategies helps organizations not only meet with fast-changing demands of a modern healthcare setting but also increases practice efficiency.
Furthermore, the strategic use of the Cerner EHR System achieves broader healthcare organization objectives through enhanced coordination among stakeholders and processes. Interoperability features are an example since consistency is guaranteed while updating patient information for viewing across all departments for effective care delivery and decision-making. Integrate EHR components into this strategic framework that can help healthcare organizations with key performance metrics involving a decrease in errors and an increase in patient satisfaction if not already covered. The collaborative environment offered by EHR systems also facilitates strategy planning due to the achievement of goals and quality enhancement in care as well as operational effectiveness (Ehwerhemuepha et al., 2022).
Recommendations to Improve Cerner to Support Stakeholder Needs
Many of these strategic enhancements are designed to optimize this Cerner EHR system to suit its stakeholders. First of all, a more refined user interface will increase workflow efficiency for clinicians and other administrative users by reducing navigation steps and the number of steps involved in executing tasks, thus decreasing the cognitive load on users to engage them more in patient care rather than in system operations. Within-built dashboards and role-specific shortcuts can facilitate routine processes, increasing productivity while reducing the potential for error. According to Maqbool & Herold, (2023), enrichment of the user interface is one of the most powerful factors in EHR efficiency and user-satisfaction maximization since it prescribes how health professionals will work with the system.
Second, further actionable insights about clinical and operational performance will be delivered to stakeholders through advanced analytics and reporting in the enhanced Cerner EHR System. With a better way of tracking KPIs using data visualization tools and real-time reporting, healthcare organizations will be empowered to pinpoint areas for improvements that will help in managing patient care and operational workflows for better patient outcomes with higher overall efficiency. It is also possible to embed feedback mechanisms, including those by which users may report issues and suggest improvements, to further drive system improvement. Effective utilization of EHR data in performance monitoring and continuous quality improvement is central to high-quality care and operational excellence, according to Ehwerhemuepha et al. (2022).
Summary
The attention to system functionality and user engagement would be strategies that ensure maximum efficiency, safety, and satisfaction in the use of the Cerner EHR System. First, interface optimization of the EHR for usability will go a long way in smoothing workflow and reducing administrative time to allow more time for direct care. Other features may include real-time clinical decision support and user-friendly data entry forms, which would facilitate safe practice by reducing errors and increasing the accuracy of information related to the patients. Regular training and mechanisms to provide regular feedback will also help the staff to work effectively with the system and cope with the updates, when necessary. These are supported by recent studies, among others, Maqbool & Herold (2023), and Ehwerhemuepha et al. (2022), underlining that matching EHR functionalities with healthcare organization strategic goals is one of the key features towards the enhancement of quality care and patient satisfaction, where active stakeholder engagement characterizes this process of improvement. This will help, at the other end, the healthcare institutions receive some benefits from the Cerner EHR System in their achievements toward modern and evidence-based standards of care.
NURS FPX 6412 Assessment 3 Manuscript for Publication Conclusion
Cerner EHR System integration is very instrumental in enhancing workflow efficiency and patient safety, generally dealing with the quality of care at healthcare facilities. Dramatic improvements in operational efficiency and patient satisfaction can be reached by properly matching the organization’s strategic goals and stakeholder needs from the EHR system functionalities. In consideration of modern healthcare environment demands the EHR system should ensure that the standard of care remains high all the time while its implementation and future optimization are underway. This is for the future optimization of the user interface, integration of real-time decision support, and continuous training and feedback. These would help much in ensuring that the potential for safe, efficient, and patient-centered care through a Cerner EHR system is fully optimized.
NURS FPX 6412 Assessment 3 Manuscript for Publication References
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