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    According to healthit.gov “Electronic medical records (EMRs) are a digital version of the paper charts in the clinician’s.” This is great to use because it contains medical information of the patients and it makes it easier to have access to it. Also with EMR staff members cannot lose patients information because it will always be in the system. The disadvantage of paper records is that it is much easier to lose or misplace paper records. Healthit.gov states “EMRs allow clinicians to track data…

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    Qualifications: Over the course of ten years medical facility replace their current electronic health record (EHR) system. New survey from well-known agencies advice medical facility on their current EHR process, over twelve percent of healthcare information technology firm would love to replace their current EHR. Replacement of any EHR can be costly; research has shown that the process can cause financial or organizational restraints. Forty-four percent of surveyed medical entities are owned…

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    One of the main benefits of having an electronic medical record is that it can reduce the number of medical errors. According to a study conducted for adverse events occurring in hospitals, at least 44,000 and as many as 98,000 deaths have occurred annually because of medical errors (Sultz & Young, p 89). The implementation of EMR can reduce significant mistakes, by utilizing computerized prescription entry, predicting drug interactions and displaying a warning for the health-care provider,…

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    continue to trudge along the age of technology, more and more advancements are being made. Some good and some questionable. Such is the case with electronic medical records. An electronic medical record is a digital and portable version of what used to be considered a paper file system. However, the difference with electronic medical records versus the antiquated paper file system is that patients files can be easily accessed anywhere by physicians. There are many pros and cons for such…

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    Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are digital versions of an individual patient’s paper chart that contains all the patient's medical history. Electronic records have multiple advantages. EMRs help providers better manage care for patients. It reduces the huge paper records that needed to be stored that were difficult to manage and retrieve. It provides accurate, up-to-date, and complete information about patients. It allows quick access to patient records for…

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    Electronic medical records (EMR) are essentially electronic versions of the paper medical record. EMRs allow for an electronic record which creates, gathers, manages and stores the health information of an individual within a health system (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], n.d.). The EMR for a health system will store the records for all of the patients they serve, but each individual patient has a record which is held within that system. Despite numerous health systems…

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    Here Comes the EHR: Digital way to manage your health records privately, safely and efficiently The Electronic Medical Record is much more of a digital medical record, which works like the paper medical records but much more practical and safe, in as all medical and clinical data from laboratory tests to the patient's medical history, the medical requirements for health spending. But what is it and how does a digital medical record? What data does it contain? When and to who may be required and…

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    Electronic Medical Records is an idea that has been around for more than 30 years is that patients’ medical records become computerized. Before the patient's’ chart consisted of their information in a paper chart, and now it’s transitioned into an electronic health record in a digital format and is stored on the computer securely. When it comes to anything new, including being electronic, there are always advantages and disadvantages. [1]“A major benefit of electronic medical records is the…

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    Current State Evaluation Electronic Medical Record In the early 1990s the Institute of Medicine (IOM) started lobbying the health care community to consider embracing the use of the electronic medical record (EMR) as standard practice (Haupt, 2011). IOM’s premise for EMR usage included improve health care by increasing safety and efficiency thereby promoting overall better quality of care. Initially, health care systems were excited about the idea of having patient’s information readily…

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    Benefits of Electronic Medical Record systems were only apparent to quality improvement initiatives and financial benefits when a greater number of physicians used patient EMR’s in the physician’s day to day activities. The key factor that affected EMR implementation and adoption was the amount of time that it took physicians to learn how to enter data and use EMR’s effectively in their day to day activities. The study shows that physicians’ benefited and patient care improved with the…

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