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Advantages of EMR Systems over Traditional Practices by Stephen Janssen
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EMR or Electronic Medical Record is a system developed for healthcare institutions and workers alike. It aims to improve healthcare services, avoiding medical errors as well as assisting their workers in the diagnosis of an illness. But other than that, healthcare institutions, particularly larger hospitals, can also benefit from the use of EMR systems.
Advantages of EMR Systems over Traditional Practices One apparent use of EMR systems is that it allows for faster and easier storage, retrieval, and modification of medical or health records unlike that of conventional means.
However, other than just for those purposes, the use of EMR systems have also displayed a number of capabilities which augmented medical practices and efficacy. One such factor is that is its accessibility for healthcare workers.
Easier Access to Medical Records One main advantage that made EMR systems an integral part for many larger healthcare institutions is because of its decision support system. Easy access to medical records can provide healthcare workers the support they needed to deduce an illness and how to properly approach it.
Although there are risks for its accessibility, EMR developers ensure that their systems are safe from attacks by continuously updating its security measures. And usually, EMR systems are attended by IT professionals who ensure that the system is safe from any hack.
Avoiding Medical Errors Another advantage that made EMR systems important is that it had drastically reduced the occurrence of medical errors which are commonly associated with paper-based medical records.
Handwritten paper medical records can be associated with poor legibility, which can contribute to medical errors. Pre-printed forms, the standardization of abbreviations, and standards for penmanship were encouraged to improve reliability of paper medical records.
Electronic records, such as an orthopedic emr system, help with the standardization of forms, terminology and abbreviations, and data input. Digitization of forms facilitates the collection of data for epidemiology and clinical studies.
Easy Sharing of Medical Records Another major advantage of using ehr software systems is that it allows for easy sharing of medical records from one healthcare institution to the other. This feature became useful particularly for situations in which a patient’s medical or health record must be transferred in another hospital. Instead of using courier services which would take a lot of time, EMR systems may use the Internet to easily and quickly send the necessary record to another hospital.
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