ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS

Moving to Electronic Health Records

Moving to Electronic Health Records”

Introduction

“Electronic Health Record is the machining data record social, preventive and doctors of a patient, obtained directly or indirectly and constantly updated” (Schulte, 2010).

Discussion

How to implement electronic health record work

“Electronic health records (EHRs) are detailed histories of each patient's interactions with the medical world. Healthcare providers use EHRs to capture a person's entire medical history including doctors' notes and documentation, all medications and allergies, vital signs over time, immunization status, radiology images, laboratory test results, and billing information. EHRs are needed to be compatible with different hospitals' computer programs enabling all health care systems to share a patient's medical history” (Resell, 2008).

Benefits of EHR

“EHRs have the support of a wide range of stakeholders. The federal and provincial governments are making significant financial investment in EHR and the provincial and local health going forward with the implementation. A major reason prompting the establishment of DSE is the potential for better clinical outcomes (e.g. improving patient safety, reduce wait times, the management of chronic diseases). An objective of improving the sharing of patient information between physicians and other health professionals is to obtain better results for patients. Thus, the EHR could facilitate collaborative care. EHRs could also simplify the process by which patients have access to their own health information, enabling them to engage more easily in their own care. Following are some detailed benefits of electronic health records:”

Reduction in the Errors

“Electronic health records reduce the remedial inaccuracies and deals with all the records of patients in a place in order to synchronize all the data. Health care professionals also take help from EHR in decision support and these records provide them a fast access to the medical literature and recent best practices in the field of medicine, which let the spread of ongoing improvements in effectiveness of health care” (Robertson, 2003).

Quick and Remote Access to Data

” Electronic health record enables quick and remote access to data about patient for doctors and medical staff. Through EHR Doctors can access information from any place of this world. This facility helps them to proceed the treatment of the patient, irrespective of wherever they are. In emergency cases, the data can also be transferred to other doctors to refer other devoid of delay” (Robertson, 2003).

Classification of Data

” One more reason to adopt EHR system is its capability to categorize and recognize the ...