Health Care
The Health Care industry in Western New York and across the country is operating under massive stress. Numerous competing priorities, scarce human and financial resources and swift technological advances are forcing medical professionals and hospitals to focus on their core competencies. Records management is an essential support service to the health care industry and even becomes the focal point for the transition to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
The NHIN is designed to provide the right medical information at the time and place of care, privately, securely and voluntarily. President George W. Bush, who outlined these goals, feels that an electronic health network will improve the quality of health care, prevent medical errors, reduce costs and thereby improve access to medical care.
Combine the NHIN initiative with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and you have an environment that is ripe for process improvement and innovation.
Centerstone Record Services can assist hospitals, doctor's offices, imaging centers and other health care organizations with HIPAA compliance, migration to the electronic health record, x-ray digitization, secure shredding and even the creation of personally controlled health records (PCHR). Please complete our needs assesment form and we will be happy to assist you.
Your patients deserve their health information delivered at the right time and only to those whom they have authorized. CRS can help you achieve this.
Other links:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality www.ahrq.gov
American Medical Informatics Association www.amia.org
HealtheLink (Western New York Clinical Information Exchange) www.wnyhealthelink.org
American Academy of Family Physicians Center for Health Information Technology www.centerforhit.org
Health Information Technology Adoption Initiative www.hitadoption.org