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Abstract

Health care organizations are considered as the most important feature of any country or state. During delivering health care services, health care organizations have to face several challenges regarding the information of the patients. In this scenario, EMR (electronic medical record) play a vital role in keeping and accessing the information of patients. It helps the health care organizations in accessing and transferring the patient's information in a more secure and convenient way. Hardware and Software

Introduction

Health care organizations are considered as the most important feature of any country. They are responsible for providing health care facilities to the people of any state or country. In this scenario, the health care organizations have to face several challenges in keeping and retrieving the records of their patients. In this situation new technologies and scientific ways play a vital role in the ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of patient's records (Gasch & Gasch, 2010).

In the current era, EMR plays a vital role in keeping all the information regarding the patient's history. EMR is an abbreviation of electronic medical record. Electronic medical record is referred as the computerized and automated medical record which is specially designed for the health care organizations like, physician's office or hospitals. Electronic medical record (EMR) is an efficient technique which allows the health care organizations to modify, retrieve or store the records of the patients (Gasch & Gasch, 2010).

The solutions of electronic medical records (EMR), helps the health care organizations, including hospitals and clinics, enhance the accessibility of patient's information by enhancing the automation of an organization (Gasch & Gasch, 2010). The proceeding paper demonstrates the significance of EMR in the health care organization. The proceeding discussion also incorporates the fact that how EMR enhances and improves the sharing of patient's information within the healthcare organization.

Discussion

In the current era, the health care organizations have to face several challenges in keeping and retrieving the records of their patients. In this scenario, EMR plays a major role in keeping and accessing the complete record of patients with in the health care organization. EMR (electronic medical record) is referred as a digital and enhanced version of a paper chart that incorporates the complete medical history of the patient. The technology of EMR is usually used by the providers for treatment and diagnosis (Gasch & Gasch, 2010).

The use of EMR helps the health care organizations in reducing and eliminating the human errors while minimizing the administrative cost of the organization. This may result in the form of enhanced, and improve quality of health care. It is a fact that, electronic medical record (EMR), allows the health care organizations to provide good quality of health care facilities along with reduced costs. The technology of EMR allows the hospitals and clinics to access the up-to-date and complete history of the patients, which ultimately helps them in providing the quality of care to their patients (Skolnik, 2011).

Surveys and researches show that, several hospitals and health care organizations do not want to ...