Electronic medical records are a digital version of the paper charts.

An electronic medical record (EMR) is a digital version of all the information you’d typically find in a provider’s paper chart: medical history, diagnoses, medications, immunization dates, allergies, lab results and doctor’s notes.

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Overview

An electronic (digital) collection of medical information about a person that is stored on a computer. An electronic medical record includes information about a patient's health history, such as diagnoses, medicines, tests, allergies, immunizations, and treatment plans. Electronic medical records can be seen by all healthcare providers who are taking care of a patient and can be used by them to help make recommendations about the patient’s care. Also called EMR and electronic health record.

The Advantages

Fewer errors on medical records
Quicker assessment and care from medical professionals
Data and results are tracked over time
Improved health diagnosis and treatments.
Enhanced privacy and security of patient data
Reduction in patient errors and improved patient care
Enable evidence-based decisions at point of care

Why Medical Records are Important

Health care can be improved by improving all aspects of patient care, such as safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, communication, timeliness, and patients uploading test results, case sheets, doctor's advisory notes and patient instructions, making it possible for all types of patients to maintain their records efficiently.

Safety can be increased
Processes can be expedited
Effectiveness of therapies and treatments can be monitored and tracked
With a growing amount of information, outcome predictions can be made

Benefits

Streamlined workflows

EMRs increase productivity and efficiency while cutting down on paperwork. Patients and staff have fewer forms to fill out, leaving clinicians with more time to see patients. Referrals and prescriptions can be sent quickly, cutting wait times for appointments and pickups

Comprehensive view of the patient

Providers should strive to have dynamic patient-centered records that track the care continuum over the person’s lifetime, in sickness and health. Having a single, continuous record for a patient provides a holistic view of overall health for better diagnosis and lifetime treatment.

Reducing error

Digital records allow for better tracking and more standardized documentation of patient interactions, which has the potential to reduce error. With digital paper trails, illegible handwriting in clinicians’ notes or prescriptions is no longer a problem and coding for procedures or billing is easier.

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