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EMRs: What are they? by Stephen Janssen
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Over time, we have constantly moved from place to place, whether by necessity or preference. We go to work in different establishments, go shopping in different stores, and when we get sick, go to visit different doctors. Sure, there’ll always be the family doctor, but will he be there when you move to the next state or travel from coast to coast? Probably not. As such, tracing medical records has always been a big problem for health care providers who need to review our individual medical histories when we visit for check-ups or require consultation for “this funny lump” or “this rash I’ve had for awhile”. Fortunately for us, the digital age has addressed this problem with the creation of electronic medical records (EMRS). The practicality of maintaining paper-based medical records has always been questionable as they can build up easily with constant updates, especially for those of us with chronic illnesses and ailments. Aside from eating up a huge amount of storage space, paper records are often hard to collate, as an individual can have a lot of these all over the country. When paper-based records are required in multiple locations, copying, faxing, and transport costs are significant compared to the duplication and transfer of records which have been digitized. Paper medical records also prove to be illegible most of the time, which can contribute to erroneous medical diagnoses. Thus we see the importance of electronic medical records. EMRs help with the standardization of forms, terminology and abbreviations, and data input and facilitate the collection of information crucial to the advancement of medical studies. This streamlining of repetitive processes saves us a significant amount of time and money, all the while improving the quality of medical services we receive from doctors and physicians who are more able to help us with our ailments with improved access to patient information. Anonymous statistical data from EMRs are also used to generate reports for resource management and public health communicable disease surveillance purposes. electronic medical records have proven to be indispensable to us in general, more so to the medical world. The ability to interoperate between different EMR systems such as EMR software by Acrendo has made the facilitation of healthcare delivery a near-seamless process between non-affiliated healthcare centers. EMRs act as databases which can be easily looked up and continuously updated in real time by medical experts all over, wherever we may be.For more information visit to our site at http://www.acrendo.com
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