Electronic Health RecordsElectronic health recordsElectronic health records (EHR) can be used to assist hospitals in storing and retrieving patient medical information that can be utilized by health care givers and patients themselves when they are hospitalized, in various medical settings and over time. One of the ways in which EHR will be beneficial is that patient information and medical history is “stored and easily accessed through the use of technology in many hospital and health care facilities all over the world” (Hoerbst, et al., 2010). There is now an efficient and reliable management of patient records in the hospital. With the use of EHR, patients are able to access their records from medical facilities via Portals and the Internet. Medical staff are also able to efficiently access information and records and better manage the storage of healthcare records.
The Benefits of EHR
In the current eHealth system, eHealth records are transferred from healthcare facilities to patients, who are given a name, age of birth, location of the patient and treatment at a specified time during the year. Health care facilities can then be used as laboratories for EHR. The collection of eHealth records and their management are done in both private and public health facilities around the world. With the eHealth system, this means that patients, who may have medical and dental records, do not have to move between hospitals. With their unique medical characteristics, patients in different locations now have a much more common access to electronic medical records. This allows for improved patient safety, better overall patient care and more timely communication between health care facilities.
EHR can help to ensure that people of all ages receive the latest results. With the use of EHR, electronic health records can easily be stored and linked to, and recorded by, anyone—within, among, between, and over hospitals and, more generally, within hospitals. With this, ehealth data can be shared with health care providers for their own benefit or for the management of other critical care that a patient needs. EHR is also an alternative way for health care facilities to protect themselves based on patients’ privacy and personal freedom. More about all benefits of electronic health records.
What can Health Caregivers Use with EHR?
Health care facilities are used in many different settings throughout the world:
The Benefits of EHR
In the current eHealth system, eHealth records are transferred from healthcare facilities to patients, who are given a name, age of birth, location of the patient and treatment at a specified time during the year. Health care facilities can then be used as laboratories for EHR. The collection of eHealth records and their management are done in both private and public health facilities around the world. With the eHealth system, this means that patients, who may have medical and dental records, do not have to move between hospitals. With their unique medical characteristics, patients in different locations now have a much more common access to electronic medical records. This allows for improved patient safety, better overall patient care and more timely communication between health care facilities.
EHR can help to ensure that people of all ages receive the latest results. With the use of EHR, electronic health records can easily be stored and linked to, and recorded by, anyone—within, among, between, and over hospitals and, more generally, within hospitals. With this, ehealth data can be shared with health care providers for their own benefit or for the management of other critical care that a patient needs. EHR is also an alternative way for health care facilities to protect themselves based on patients’ privacy and personal freedom. More about all benefits of electronic health records.
What can Health Caregivers Use with EHR?
Health care facilities are used in many different settings throughout the world:
One of the impediments to implementing HER systems would be the resistance that might come from staff. Implementing an electronic medical record system would mean that jobs initially designated for record keepers would be discontinued, thereby reducing the amount of staff retained to do the work. In cases where staff foresees such changes, they are most likely to resist and HER implementation. Staff might also be afraid that change would involve sophisticated technology that isn’t easily learned.
Another foreseeable impediment that the deployment of an EHR system may encounter is the inefficient training of staff to be able to effectively operate electronic health record systems. Training is a very important aspect of the implementation process that ensures all employees are comfortable and efficiently using the electronic health record system. If employees do not have enough training, then there will be low user adoption and an abandonment of a system that could have cost millions of dollars. Lack of training or lack of enough training will lead to the loss of a capital for a health care institution.
Other impediments could include that medical providers, especially those located in rural settings, refuse to adopt and support the use of EHR