Essay About Ehrs Help Providers And Patient Records

Ehr Proposal Summary
EHR Proposal SummaryEHRs and the ability to exchange health information electronically can help you provide higher quality and safer care for patients while creating tangible enhancements for your organization. EHRs help providers better manage care for patients and provide better health care by providing accurate, up-to-date, and complete information about patients at the point of care. It allows quick access to patient records for more coordinated, efficient care for the patients by the office. We will be able to send messages between the office to patients and other physicians’ offices. Patients will be able to access their information and get their labs results with ease. This will improve patient and physician communication while creating lasting relationship and trust with the office. The patient’s records will also be more secure due to the fact there will not be a paper copy that can be stolen or lost allowing others access to the records and important personal information. EHR’s will assist physicians and their staff to reduce the medical errors while providing better and safer care for their patients. It will allow providers to better diagnose patients which will in turn help the safety of the patients. The provider will be able to prescribe medication easier while also being able to note what medication the patient has been on and the possibility of a patient abusing medications to help reduce the abuse. The prescription will be more reliable because the human error factor will be less because by submitting electronically there is no question about what is written versus the typed prescription. Not only will it help with reducing prescription error it will also help promote legible and complete documentation. By using streamlined coding and billing it will increase the accuracy in the file so any staff member can easily access the records and know what is going on. Utilizing the EHR’s will allow the office to reduce the paperwork which will lead to staff efficiency and allow the physician’s to meet their business goals while improving productivity and work life balance.