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| Prison EHRs Improve Coordination Of Care |
| By healthitoutcomes.com- Christine Kern |
| Published: 08/15/2014 |
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The implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) across 12 jails in New York City between 2008 and 2011 led to a “significant improvement” in the ability of officials to monitor and safeguard human rights of inmate patients, according to a new study. As part of the study, published in Health and Human Rights Journal, researchers modified EHRs to better serve vulnerable populations and enable reporting and analysis of patterns of abuse, neglect, and other patient concerns related to human rights and link to outside EHRs through health information exchanges “so that injuries, mental health exacerbations, and other concerns unique to the correctional setting can be followed up in the community.” The study does conclude, however, that further efforts are required in order to optimize the potential of the EHR as a tool to promote human rights among patients in jail, and any connection of the EHR – handled by eClinicalWorks – “will require significant educational collaboration with community health providers around the key pieces of information that may indicate jail-based vulnerability.” Read More. |
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