EMR: Improving Patient Care

EMR: Improving Patient Care

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) was innovated by Healthtec Fusion to manage and ease up the hustle and bustle and the encumbrance that the conventional medical records bring. Just think about how computers tend to make our loves a lot easier. Same is true to EMR. It makes the lives of those who are involved in the care of the patient – physicians, nurses, and hospital office clerks a lot easier. This saves them time and prevents them from being interrupted from their work. EMR does not only save time, but it also generates income. Just think about the number of people that the hospital administrative clerk could cater if his or her work is not interrupted by going about the rubles of the old fashioned paper-based medical records. The more people they serve the more income the hospital gets.
One purpose of the EMR is the interoperability or the ability to quickly access and exchange patient information such as laboratory test results and past medical histories such as allergies, diagnoses and medications taken from physician to physician or other members of the healthcare team or from hospital to hospital which is necessary in ameliorating the caregivers’ ability in making unassailable decisions in carrying out a care that is conveniently patient-centered and in a timely manner.
EMR also manages how the doctors’ orders are implemented such as prescriptions for medications, lab tests and other services by entering and storing them in a computerized scheme, thus leaving less room for repetition and improves the speed of how the orders are carried out.
The continuity of communication among healthcare providers is also made possible by the EMR through computerized decision-support. A communication that’s efficiently, safely and easily accessed and shared among the providers allows room for improvement of the continuity of patient care with the use of prompts and reminders, thereby enabling them to formulate diagnoses and implement plan of care and treatments suited for the patient’s case without delays.
Every patient has the right to know every single detail about their health. EMR offers patient support by giving the patient the liberty to access his or her health archives. It also provides the patient with who has a chronic condition with home instructions like self-monitoring of blood pressure and self-testing of blood glucose levels for the purpose of continuity of care until the patient is discharged.
The computerized administrative means that the EMR offers such as scheduling and reporting systems, allows the hospitals and clinics to efficiently provide administrative support and services to the patients in a timely manner as it replaces the out-dated, incomplete, disintegrated, illegible and sometimes hard to find paper-based medical records with an updated, easily accessed source of information that has the potential for automation and modernization.
To sum it up, EMR is geared towards the provision of an improved patient care by means of a computerized legal document (including patient history, billing information, and medical transcription notes, lab results, and medications) that is secured and easily accessed and shared among the authorized healthcare providers in any venues which has the ability to incorporate the erraticism and intricacy of the prescribed medications, the diagnoses, and the plan of care.