Week Five Discussion Question 3 What new roles are emerging in the health care industry Explain the reason for the role the impact on the organization the regulatory issues that may be faced and the competencies needed to maintain the role Please read the Week Five discussion question above this question is also posted in the Course Materials Forum Develop your thoughts and post your response into the Main Forum following this thread Please do not start a new thread for this discussion question As well you may find it helpful to review the requirements for posting a response which can be found within your syllabus You are required to post a response to two 2 DQ each week in the Main Forum Each response is to be 100 150 words The new roles that will emerge in the health care industry will be more people having experience with Healthcare Information Management Some health care organizations have already started the process of electronic medical records and there are many more organizations who are getting ready to start My uncle is in charge of the health information systems in Tucson Arizona I was just talking to him about the importance of the systems and everything that can be done He had to deal with the ideas for all physicians and office staff in that area He has spent hours trying to get the system the way that they want it Organizations will find that electronic medical records will be the best thing for the physicians and staff but HIPAA seems to be more important as all office staff will have access to the patient health records The most important and rapidly changing field within health care is information technology Moving toward and integrated electronic medical records system with encryption software to detect and expose breeches in HIPPA violations This is where health care facilities are moving in and in many ways will change how health care is delivered Information management becomes the central focus of health care Voice recognition software will change the manner in which medical records are transcribed stored and communicated between providers Regulatory issues regarding HIPPA violations have dramatically increased as breeches in security carry more stringent and increasing penalties for unauthorized access into emr systems The impacts upon the organization greatly affect patient care Older workers who are unfamiliar with information technology and data entry will have a difficult time switching to a paperless system However the younger generation will have a much easier time converting to a data entry system Some data entry systems are very user friendly some systems are not How complicated the system is will greatly enhance patient care or detract from it So as we enter this transition period to a paperless system the focus needs to be on how the patients can best be served with a user friendly data entry system