Blog 16: Answer 2

Title:  Answer 2
Label: Presentation
Due Date:  Thursday, 2/19 by 8AM

1.  What is your EQ?

What is the key way pharmacists can enforce patient compliance to prevent noncompliant health
problems?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

There is no simple solution to end the issue of patient compliance, but there is a possible way to help decrease and to slow the rate of noncompliant health problems by supporting Good Pharmacy Practice to pharmacists.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

Technology has formed out the medical industry to be more efficient through machinery and medical records; even some patients connects with their health care providers online known as Patient Portal.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• In 2009, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) passed by the Obama administration, includes a section called the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act promotes adoption of "electronic health records" (EHRs) to improve efficiency and lower healthcare costs. Anticipating that the widespread adoption of electronic health records would increase privacy and security risks under The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) which is known as Patient Portal throughout the public. (Protected by HIPPA and HITECH "hack free")
• The purpose of this document is to help healthcare providers to understand how patient portals help achieve HIPAA compliance and to comply with HIPAA and HITECH. Complying with these ACTs (HIPPA + HITECH) requires an investment in the adoption of HIPAA Compliance Plans, training of staff and attention to the particular details of the ACTs. This benefits healthcare providers to keep organization of patients profiles and simply access patients medical records easily. 
• In the US alone, 36% of US citizens uses Patient Portal and the other 64% doesn't. But within 57% of the 64% are interested to have their own personal Patient Portal. In the generation of advance technology, people gain a better communication through the source of social media through many virtual emails. Patient Portal is a healthcare related online applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers. The functionality of patient portals varies significantly through the secure access to patient's demographic information, appointment scheduling, payments, bidirectional messaging and access to clinical data if the portal is being provided by the EHR provider.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

Etherly, Andre. ʺUsing Patient Portals to Achieve HIPAA Compliance and Drive Patient Satisfaction.ʺ
Http://ezinearticles.com/?Using-Patient-Portals-to-Achieve-HIPAA-Compliance-and-Drive-Patient-Satisfaction&id=7002481.
15 Apr. 2012. Web. 18 Sept. 2014.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

Crane, Kristine. "How Patient Portals Are Changing Health Care."
Http://health.usnews.com/health-news/patient-advice/articles/2014/06/30/how-patient-portals-are-changing-health-care.
N.p., 30 June 2014. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.


7.  Tie this together with a concluding thought.

Between Good Pharmacy Practice and Patient Portal, they both have one method in common to bring a low rate of noncompliant problems, of medication, to occur throughout the US. It is communication of health care providers, the pharmacists, and their consumers, the patient. There is a language barrier between the pharmacist and the patient which causes communication to be less use. The patient cannot gain a full understanding of every bit of information the pharmacist had explain about their medication. Communication must be fixed between the two, it is like a French men talking to a Chinese woman.

On Friday, 2/20 for Advisory #2, you will be presenting what you have from this blog.  The presentation is more like a share-out and should not last longer than 2 minutes. You don't need a visual, and you should not read what you have written.