Electronic medical record (EMR) is a system which saves any physician information, medical procedure, and any clinical assessment that was completed on the patient (Sanderson, 2009). Electronic medical record (EMR) is meant to follow the patient’s medical history electronically for the physicians to retrieve easily (Torrey, 2008).
The main advantages of obtaining an EMR are for the personnel and administrative staff to access patient’s medical information directly. EMRs eliminate sorting through paper charts and files that can be misplaced it also helps the physicians to order medications, lab tests, and any additional services requested by the office personnel. An EMR can also be shared with other medical facilities that have the same system so if referred or transferred to another facility the records can be looked over by the other attending physician. Office personnel every now and then make medical mistakes when reading notes on patients charts, EMR can assist in the decreasing of errors. Obtaining an EMR and practice management program (PMP) can assistance with an office practice enormously (Sanderson, 2009).
The EMR and PMP are useful in an office. An EMR can transmit information about patient’s visits to the PMP. The EMR be capable of reporting the patient’s diagnosis