Implementation Of Electronic Health Record

An assessment report says that healthcare in the U.S

. costs around $2 trillion per annum, or more than $6,600 for every man, woman and child in the country. Whereas, streamlining healthcare with the elimination of medical errors, extra labor costs and general expenses caused by massive use of paper could benefit up to $300 billion each year, according to the national coordinator for health information technology under former President George W. Bush.

The main consensus is the execution of Electronic Health Record at substantial degree to exchange the paper based system into paperless giving a boost to the financial system at massive scale. The true implementation of an Electronic Health Record would be spreading a vast network; linking all the hospitals, clinics, and doctors offices. This would help in transmission of patient data with few clicks anywhere anytime.

Primarily few providers got distrustful in implementation of EHR considering it a obstacle to quality time spent between patient and doctor. They didnt want to bother with the added task of learning a new computer system, no matter what intrinsic worth does it offers. However, the user friendly EHRs restored doctors opinion that gradually doubled the percentage of using EHR in the past two years according to an announcement by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The current percentage of the use of EHR went up from 16% in 2009 to 35% in 2011.

EHR implementation benefits are not merely limited to patient care and easy access of data but it also helps in quick disease recognition, improve surveillance, quality comparisons, benefiting the society at a larger scale. One of the big obstacles in the way of EHR adoption was the high cost, being charged by each vendor. This needs to be taken care of at larger scale to improve its implementation.

As per the US government policy, it has become compulsory for all providers to use EHR by the year 2014; afterwards there would be a penalty on the yearly income already prescribed by the Government. The adoption of EHR doesnt merely rely on physicians; there comes a responsibility on the vendors as well to provide a very cost effective and user friendly product that itself could appeal the physicians. The EHR implementation does not only benefit an individual patient but also benefits the country economy at the larger scale.

by:Asima Sadia

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