This week’s graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcomes (COs).
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Discussion Question
NR361 Week 4 Discussion: Your patient has a Personal Health Record… Now what? (graded)Case Study: A 65-year-old woman was just been diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She was informed of this diagnosis in her primary care physician’s office. She leaves her physician’s office and goes home to review all of her tests and lab results with her family. She goes home and logs into her PHR. She is only able to pull up a portion of her test results. She calls her physician’s office with this concern. The office staff discussed that she had part of her lab work completed at a lab not connected to the organization, part was completed at the emergency room, and part was completed in the lab that is part of the doctor’s office organization.
The above scenario might be a scenario that you have commonly worked with in clinical practice. For many reasons, patients often receive healthcare from multiple organizations that might have different systems.
As you review this scenario, reflect and answer these questions for this discussion.
SOLUTION:
Personal Health Records (PHRs) allow patients to participate in their recovery journey by being able to access critical information from medical professionals as processes continue. As a result, patients can discuss their details with the medical professionals as they update their status. Equally, the platform makes it easier to coordinate and combine information from multiple providers. Another advantage is that patients can easily share their medical progress with their families and friends by login into the PHRs. Nevertheless, the PHRs may be disadvantageous in the sense that technology may not be efficient for elderly people. Equally, there may be delays of omission of vital information if there is no proper integration of departments to the PHRs (Hebda et al., 2019).
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