EMR and EHR providers are
the latest group of stakeholders who have forayed into the healthcare system,
and are actively leveraging technology to connect doctors and patients better.
By maintaining patient health records in the electronic format, these providers
support doctors in the following way:
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Easy access to a patient’s clinicial data set: EHR and EMR provider maintain a patient’s record in
the electronic format. This means that all relevant health information of a
patient are collected and maintained in a single place, and this simplifies a
doctor’s access to these vital informations. EHRs or EMRs help a doctor view
all the past records of a patient’s health in one place without having to lose
time in waiting or hunting for previous records.
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Simplified collaboration with other
specialists: Certified EMRs and
EHRs are built to enable easy collaboration between different doctors. Hence,
as it is in many cases, all the doctors who are collaborating to cure a patient
have immediate access to the prognosis given by the others. This in turn helps
in a faster recovery path for the patient.
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Accurate information to aid in better and
faster diagnosis: EMR and EHR provide
data security which means that a patient’s clinical data set is accurate.
Consequently, a doctor need not worry about if a particular infomation is
incorrect or if any test record is missing. This, in turn, leads to a quicker
and error-free path to diagnosing the ailment and healing it.
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Time Saving: The biggest support that EHRs and EMRs provide
medical practioners is the time saving that they offer. Time is the key
difference between life and death in times of emergency, and by ensuring that
time is saved, EMRs and EHRs help doctors save precious lives.
Summarizing, accuracy,
interoperability, and accessibility are the three ways in which EMRs and EHRs
support health care professionals. As a consequence, patients benefit as these
intrinsic benefits of EMRs and EHRs leads to swift identification of the
problem, and hence solution.
