ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS (PHR) &
CONTINUITY OF CARE RECORD (CCR)
WHAT IS A SMART CARD ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS NEWS
ADVANTAGES
OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS
BARRIERS TO ELECTRONIC RECORDS
Advantages of electronic medical records over paper records.
1.Easier to store
2.Easier to find
3.Easier to copy and send where needed for referrals and patient access.
4.Always available-In 2004, an estimate was made that 1 in 7 hospitalizations occurred when medical records were not available.
5.Avoid
duplicate care- An estimated 1 in 5 lab tests in 2004 were repeated
because results were not available at the point of care.
6.Improved
efficiency- Electronic medical records are estimated to improve
efficiency by 6% per year, and the monthly cost of an EMR is offset by
the cost of only a few unnecessary tests or admissions.Another large
hospital generated about $8.6 million in annual savings by replacing
paper medical charts with EHRs for outpatients and about $2.8 million
annually by establishing electronic access to laboratory results and
reports.
7.Avoidance
of medical errors- Electronic records keeping and order entry have been
found to reduce errors associated with handwritten orders and notes.
Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)—one component of a
complete EHR—increases patient safety by listing instructions for
physicians to follow when they prescribe drugs to patients. Brigham and
Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, estimated it achieved
net savings of $5 million to $10 million per year following
installation of a computerized physician order entry system that
reduced serious medication errors by 55 percent.
8.Improved
collection of data for epidemiology and clinical studies.
by digitizing forms, more easily identifying clinical trial
participants and reducing administrative overhead, improving analysis.
9.Improved
billing accuracy-An electronic medical record can code and interface
with electronic billing systems and provide extra documentation if
needed. In practice these systems don’t work very well at the
moment.
10.Cost
savings to insurance companies due to fewer hospitalisations and
errors.Medicare would receive about $23 billion of the potential
savings per year, and private payers would receive $31 billion per
year.
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ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS (PHR) &
CONTINUITY OF CARE RECORD (CCR)
WHAT IS A SMART CARD ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS NEWS
ADVANTAGES
OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS
BARRIERS TO ELECTRONIC RECORDS