Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Electronic Health Records was developed around the 1960’s and 70’s. An Electronic Health Record is a digital collection of patient health information compiled at one or more meetings in any care delivery settings. A patient’s health record includes their vital signs, past medical history, demographics, their laboratory data, immunizations, progress notes, problems and medication. EHR is often referred to the software platform that manages patient records maintained by a medical practice or hospital.
Around the mid 1960’s Lockheed developed an EHR product which was later handed down to Vendor Techicon, then to the TDS Health Care. It had later inspired systems because of its processing speed and flexibility, which allowed many users in the …show more content…
With many task to be done to medical record in one visit there was many errors and sometime charts would be missing information or be chronologically out of order. Over the time EHR had eliminated the physical transport and filling charts, making data available at any time. The good thing about EHR is that it allows physicians to place lab and imaging orders. EHR also allows you to electronically send in prescriptions. Another good thing about EHR is that you don’t have to worry about trying to read other people …show more content…
An unscrupulous person could access patient data and use it to commit fraud. Data loss is a major issue, a computer can crash and wipe out vital data that have been accumulating for years. The good thing about EHR would be that you have a back-up, but with paper medical records you’ll have to go through a lot to find it. Some more good things would be that it improved patient safety there’s also a reduction in errors. You also have immediate access there’s no delay in treatment and you also have access to multiple types of data from a single point.
The advantages of EHR is that it provides accurate up-to-date and complete information about patients at the point of care. You can share patient information with other Physicians. EHR also enables safer, more reliable prescribing enhancing provincial, and security of patient data.
There are many different functions of EHR program which includes Billing and Coding software, Electronic Prescriptions, Electronic Schedulers, Trickler files, and Patient Access. Most patient’s today prefer most communications through electronic means instead of being out at the office waiting for their appointment to be made but on the computer or over the phone you can get it done quicker. Trickler files are computerized records. Trickler files alert staff members about patient who are due for their yearly check-up and
Around the mid 1960’s Lockheed developed an EHR product which was later handed down to Vendor Techicon, then to the TDS Health Care. It had later inspired systems because of its processing speed and flexibility, which allowed many users in the …show more content…
With many task to be done to medical record in one visit there was many errors and sometime charts would be missing information or be chronologically out of order. Over the time EHR had eliminated the physical transport and filling charts, making data available at any time. The good thing about EHR is that it allows physicians to place lab and imaging orders. EHR also allows you to electronically send in prescriptions. Another good thing about EHR is that you don’t have to worry about trying to read other people …show more content…
An unscrupulous person could access patient data and use it to commit fraud. Data loss is a major issue, a computer can crash and wipe out vital data that have been accumulating for years. The good thing about EHR would be that you have a back-up, but with paper medical records you’ll have to go through a lot to find it. Some more good things would be that it improved patient safety there’s also a reduction in errors. You also have immediate access there’s no delay in treatment and you also have access to multiple types of data from a single point.
The advantages of EHR is that it provides accurate up-to-date and complete information about patients at the point of care. You can share patient information with other Physicians. EHR also enables safer, more reliable prescribing enhancing provincial, and security of patient data.
There are many different functions of EHR program which includes Billing and Coding software, Electronic Prescriptions, Electronic Schedulers, Trickler files, and Patient Access. Most patient’s today prefer most communications through electronic means instead of being out at the office waiting for their appointment to be made but on the computer or over the phone you can get it done quicker. Trickler files are computerized records. Trickler files alert staff members about patient who are due for their yearly check-up and