Electronic Health Records: Streamline and Transform your Healthcare Practices

Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Electronic Health Records (EHR’s) are also widely known as Electronic Medical Records (EMR’s) and many people use the term interchangeably (Torrey, 2011). An EHR is an electronic version of a patient's health record that was historically created, used, and stored in a paper chart. A patient EHR is created, managed, and held by a healthcare organization (Roman, 2009).  

Application of EHRs in Healthcare 

There are various methods of EHRs application in the healthcare system but few will be listed below: 1. Clinical application

2. Administrative application

Clinical Research Application of EHR in Healthcare

Another important area where biomedical informatics has played a significant role in healthcare system is in the aspect of clinical research using the surveillance and query facilities in the digital-stored records. The query system may be used to identify patient who meet appropriate criteria for prospective clinical trials.

Objectives of Clinical Application of EHRs in Healthcare

1. EHR provides clinical functions which are health information and data, results management.

2. To manage the information that health personnel require to do their work efficiently and effectively.

3. Assists in the organization of patients’ medical information and record keeping.

4. It provides timely access to patients' clinical information, for example, radiology results and laboratory

5. . Facilitates communication, integration of information and patient care coordination action among many healthcare personnel such as doctors, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory scientists. 

Administrative Application of EHR in Healthcare System: Administratively, EHR can be used to schedule hospital admissions, in-patient, and out-patient procedures, and visits. 

Advantages of Administrative Application of EHR

1. It provides speedy and accurate patient's insurance eligibility validation.

2. Adds value for both provider and patient by improving access to healthcare services. 

3. More timely payments, and reduced paperwork.

4. Provides valuable information about the associations among types of diseases.

5. Query system

Application of EHR in Healthcare Financing

 The application of EHR in health care financing is an important area to discuss especially during this period of federal health care reform with the goals of maintaining some balance among access, costs, and quality of care. Based on cost-accounting applications in other industries, health care cost-accounting systems, adapted from cost accounting applications in other industries, have been adopted widely.

Application of EHR in Reporting in Healthcare

 EHR has also been very useful in reporting and population health management. Many healthcare institutions, both private and public presently have many reporting requirements at the local, state, and national levels for patient safety and quality, as well as for public health. Learn how AI-driven system automates, processes and streamlines via< https://lnkd.in/eMMPyfud