In this digital age, every thing seems to be digitized - the library catalogs, the telephone diary and so on. Healthcare industry is not an exception to the rule, the industry is under rapid transformation with the introduction of health IT solutions like electronic medical records system, pactice management system, claims processing system and more.
Benefits:
1) Digitization of patient medical records helps to drastically reduce the work load.
2) The use of EMRs supposedly reduces errors in medical records.
3) Digital records provide more safety to the patient medical records as compared to manual (paper based) records.
4) Digital records (EMRs) brings about increase in ROI for the practice.
5) Electronic medical records ultimately help to bring about the improvement in quaity of patient service.
Concerns:
1) Cost of implementation, training and operations.
2) Patient data security issues.
3) EMRs can lead to loss of the human touch in health care.
Certain concerns as regards the implementation of electronic medical records can not be denied, however, looking into the unmatched advantages it can deliver for both doctors as well as practice, more and more doctors and hospitals are turning to electronic medical records.
Benefits:
1) Digitization of patient medical records helps to drastically reduce the work load.
2) The use of EMRs supposedly reduces errors in medical records.
3) Digital records provide more safety to the patient medical records as compared to manual (paper based) records.
4) Digital records (EMRs) brings about increase in ROI for the practice.
5) Electronic medical records ultimately help to bring about the improvement in quaity of patient service.
Concerns:
1) Cost of implementation, training and operations.
2) Patient data security issues.
3) EMRs can lead to loss of the human touch in health care.
Certain concerns as regards the implementation of electronic medical records can not be denied, however, looking into the unmatched advantages it can deliver for both doctors as well as practice, more and more doctors and hospitals are turning to electronic medical records.
EMR offers great advantages, nice post, thanks!
ReplyDeleteEMR can contribute in a major way for the betterment and advancement of health care .It would be a big help because it provides accurate information and accelerate the creation of results.
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