What are the benefits of an EHR?
It is well known that managing paper-based medical charts requires time and effort. Not only are they difficult to access, but they are also expensive to store, vulnerable to theft, loss, and destruction and can be altered to cover up medical negligence and errors. Since they cannot be easily shared or analyzed, physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers are limited in what they can do with them.
An electronic health record (EHR) software offers significant benefits to healthcare professionals in the medical practice. In fact, even at the EMR implementation phase, primary and specialty medical practices gain an opportunity to streamline, standardize and improve their care processes.
When adopted by medical practices, EHRs have been shown to:
Improve the quality of healthcare services: by providing quick and easy access to patient clinical summaries, imaging and laboratory test results, medication history, allergies and immunization data.
Improve patient safety: as they promote safer, legible and reliable prescribing and clinical documentation options, thereby reducing the risk for medical errors.
Increase medical practice efficiency: by building a more cohesive, better coordinated clinic team, streamlining the medical practice workflow and simplifying clinical and administrative tasks so they can be performed with greater ease.
Decrease the cost of providing care: by reducing waste in the form of duplicated tests and services or extra labor and administrative costs to support clinical and administrative tasks and processes.
Favorably impact physician business goals : supports improvement of physician productivity and efficiency enabling them to meet their goals.
Promote consistency and standardization of treatment and care: as a result of terminology standards, disease codes, documentation templates and clinical decision support tools embedded in the EHR.
Support chronic disease management: customized clinical alerts and reminders from the EHR enhance and improve the overall care a patient receives.
Improve communication: among physicians and healthcare professionals within the organization as well as between different sectors of the healthcare system, leading to better coordinated patient care.
Enhance security of patient data: by ensuring authentication, authorization of entities and control of access to EHR information.
Though adopting an EHR can be a major undertaking for a small business, it can have an enormous impact on the success of your practice or clinic.
If you do choose to leap into the world of electronic health records, consider GreenOlive EHR, an affordable, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use clinic software that will help you rapidly transform your medical practice, enhance your productivity and overall efficiency.
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