Gaining Benefits From Your Electronic Medical Record System

Electronic medical record systems have been a part of large Healthcare organizations for years

, and are not going away anytime soon. In fact, now small clinics and single physician practices have started adopting them. The question many of these doctors ask, however, is, "what can an EMR system do for me?"

Immediate Prescription Delivery - How would you like to deliver a patient's prescription to their chosen pharmacy within moments? How about making this happen while ensuring that the prescription is totally correct, and where handwriting is never an problem? This is the huge benefit of a properly installed electronic medical record system. Not only does the patient, but the physician can benefit from this system, as the time saved (especially on handfuls of prescriptions per day) is immense.

Web Based Laboratory Results - Dealing with couriers and telephone calls for test results has until now been a very necessary, albeit difficult part of the medical doctor's schedule. Meanwhile, patients call again and again to discover their test results, taking valuable minutes from your medical assistants. However, by allowing patients to retrieve their test results electronically (a feature many robust electronic medical record systems include), much time and stress is saved.

Safety in Travel - If you have a patient with a health problem and they want to take a vacation, you might be worried about them traveling in case of an emergency. But if they have an electronic health record, you know that your patients can access to their medical information no matter where you are in the world. That helps you to know that your patients will be treated in compliance with their health issues.

Information About Prescriptions - The final benefit of medical records being available electronically is that they are great for prescriptions. They help with revealing any dangerous interactions with the pills that a patient might be taking before they cause an issue.

Minimizing drug interactions is certainly a major benefit to having an electronic medical record system, but general cost savings are the main advantage. Insurance companies and HMOs, as an example, have taken to EMR systems because it helps them to slash costs. Generic drugs and alternative treatments can be suggested, which can save all participants a lot of cost.

The underlying pleasure of electronic medical records is simply that everyone involved, from the patient to the doctor to the HMO, sees the efficiencies and ease of the system. Communication issues are removed, both for tests and prescriptions. Doctors can treat and diagnose patients from distant locations, or let remote doctors use the information to provide their own diagnoses. The future is now, all thanks to electronic medical record systems.

In the end, an electronic medical record system is about using computers to maximize efficiency and communication effectiveness. The US Government saw that paying for EMR systems was key not only to economic success, but to the safety of the healthcare system in general. Electronic medical record systems work well - for all.

by:Carl Hardy

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