Electronic Health Records: Is It Our Future?

Electronic Health Records: Is It Our Future?

Introduction

Today it is the era of information technology. The world has become more digitally oriented. The importance of information technology is emerging in almost all the sectors. The information technology based information systems are being implemented almost in all the departments of the organization that gives the interlinked and complete information throughout the organization.

The importance of information technology is also emerging in the health care sector. There is the growing concern of electronic health record in United States and in other developed countries. It is being emphasized that there must be the complete collection of electronic health records that contains all the health records of all the patients. The emerging concept of health care record system seems beneficial by the doctors. EHRs' involves the systematic collection of patients' health data that can be shared among different health care organizations. The electronic health records are particularly beneficial for the doctors in giving the health care deliveries to the patients.

Thesis statement

Electronic health records (EHRs) is our future.

Discussion

From the past two years, there is the growing concern of electronic health records in the health care industry. The electronic health record mainly involves all the important records of the patients that involve the demographics of the patients, the past medical and health history, the medications that have given to the patients, patients' age, billing records, the laboratory records as well as the radiology reports. The electronic health records system is getting the positive response not from the physicians but also from the patients. The hospitals that have already implemented the electronic health records systems are experiencing efficiency in providing health care services to their patients.

Electronic health records particularly focuses on the overall health of the patients. The record systems provides the broader view of patients' health to the doctors and physicians and this help them to provide more better medication and health care service to the patients looking at the past medical history of the patients. The electronic health record systems are designed in a manner that not only provides the patients' records and medical history to the particular health organization, but, these systems are designed to share the patients' records at all the hospitals at the national levels. This is the most important feature of electronic health records (EHRs') that it provides the complete security of patients' records and it involves secure sharing of data. This best feature of EHRs' has enhanced the openness of communication between the patients and the physicians (Horowitz, B.T., 2012).

The importance of EHRs' in not only significant for the doctors but it is also significant from the patients' perspectives. It the increasing concern of the patients that there must an adequate system that can keep the history of their medical records. It is also their concern that they must be given the excess to their health records in such electronic records systems so that they can easily have a view of their profile and also ...