Medical record

When differentiating between an Electronic Health Record (EHR) and an Electronic Medical Record (EMR), we are dealing with electronic data that can be created, controlled, and accessed at different locations, or one specific location. An EMR is a patient’s paper-based medical file for a unique location, such as a doctor’s office, or clinic, which has been transferred into digital format. With an EHR a patient’s digital personal, and medical information is broader, by allowing various locations…

Electronic medical records in a healthcare organization facilitate data management and efficient analysis of patient information. The implementation of EMR’s is a complex process that entails medical data, confidentiality issues, data entry, and unawareness of information technology among healthcare workers (Boonstra, Versluis, & Vos, 2014). The Affordable Care Act mandated the use of electronic medical records (EMR’s) for hospitals and allocated $ 20 billion towards implementation of the system…

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are constantly evolving and beneficial to healthcare. Dryden Family Medicine (DFM) has operated for a number of decades without the use of EMRs and it has grown into a challenge that they intended on fixing. Through the use of EMR, the practice has had an increase in revenue, an increase in employee satisfaction and incentives from federal and private insurers. This case study focuses on the stages of implementing a EMR and how it is used to benefit DFM.…

Praxis Electronic Medical Record & General Surgery Praxis is a unique, award-winning Electronic Medical Record software that does not rely on templates, but instead utilizes an artificial intelligence engine that learns from each user. Physicians chart their own way, using their own style and word choice, while progressively improving charting speed, documentation and medical quality. Praxis EMR is a great fit for physicians in any specialty who value medical quality and make their own buying…

Implementing the Clinical Practice Guidelines portion of Electronic Medical Records: Physician’s Buy In With the outburst of technology and the new and creative ways to access information. Also healthcare administrators we understand that physicians are forced to leave behind pen and paper and fiercely adapt to the use of the IT world. However, there has been resistance to the adoption of new systems and the integration of patient care. To complicate things, health administrators and health…

Electronic Medical Records Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are a collection of patient information that is stored and accessible digitally. EMRs make medical records more readily accessible to healthcare professionals by making records available from virtually any computer. EMRs were introduced in 1972 to improve accuracy and efficiency of creating, editing, adding to, and reviewing medical records (Electronic Health Records, 2012). Quality of Care It is arguable that EMRs have…

Electronic Medical Record Conversion Issues Health records date back to the Ancient Greeks and Astrologers who charted observations, symptoms and outcomes. Today, we are documenting health information in either a paper chart or a digital version of a patient’s chart in a computer called an electronic health record. According to Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, “an electronic health record (EHR) is defined as an electronic version of a patient’s medical history, that is maintained by…

information across multidisciplinary teams. Physician order entry provides clinical alerts, reminders, and protocol-driven order sets. There is no longer a need to expend time searching for a chart or attempting to decipher orders. The Electronic Medical Record, better known as the EMR, has many benefits as well as limitations. The barriers to computer charting found from personal experience come from a time standpoint. Unfortunately, there is extra time spent in the EMRs. Per HIPPA guidelines,…

Electronic Medical Records The purpose of this case analysis is to address the problem related to Electronic Medical Records and Health Care. Let us, examine how effective can be EMR to support health care of the patient. Technology has always been helpful in solving the problems associated to health and medical care. Advance technologies have been used to cure diseased people all around the world. Let's have a look at another Digitizing Technology, i.e. EMR (Rouse, 2011). Problem in Case…

physician satisfaction declining with the ease of use of the electronic medical records. A key finding in this report was that not only did the transition to electronic medical record take a toll on productivity, but this decreased productivity continued after implementation. “With fewer physicians choosing primary care as their specialty, the demand for primary care physicians is increasing”. (Cheng, 2012) According to Cheng (2012), medical students are staying away from primary care and are…