Hmmm.....

What a week it has been! My head is swimming with all of this information I am trying to put into it. I am truly feeling a bit overwhelmed...ok....a LOT overwhelmed! lol However, I think I am retaining some of this information. I never realized there was so much information, rules, regulations, and laws involved with HIT. I mean, I knew there would be, I guess, but never REALLY thought about how much I was going to be reading and learning and trying to absorb. I really just wanted to code when I started all of this! There is so much more to HIT than "just" coding.
With all of that being said, I am excited to see this field expanding and changing into the electronic health record (EHR). It will be so nice when all of this is done with the computers. We had the chance to look at some real medical records this last week. Of course, the names were removed so the person is still protected with their right to privacy, but the information was there--all scribbled out and very difficult to read. Some of it was completely unreadable. Some of the records were not fully photocopied so we got partial pages and incomplete documents. One of the records had numerous scribbles, words written above and below the scribbled out words, and the words were written all over the pages....like, not on lines, but written diagonally! WHAT A MESS!!!! That made me very thankful for this transition to EHR's. I don't know how people can decipher those kinds of records, and hopefully, it will all be switched over by the time we graduate and have to deal with all of this.
Even with all of my doubts and fears, I am very much looking forward to entering into this ever-changing field!!