Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
Keeping detailed patient medical records for continuing patient care is of utmost importance in any healthcare organization. EMR stands for Electronic Medical Record, can transform your paper clinical processes into a 24 x 7 immediate-access process. EMR is designed as a powerful, flexible and easy-to-use clinical information system targeting point-of-care, decision support and research uses.
Key Features
- Includes patient demographics, patient history, physical examination, investigations, diagnosis, treatment plan and progress notes
- Elimination of silo based inefficiencies by usage of completely unified Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
- The templates for history taking and physical examination can be configured according to the requirements of each specialty
- The security system maintains confidentiality of patients' health related information
- All the required data of each of the previous visits can be visualized on the ‘home’ page of the patient's health record
- Realtime access to clinical information for the clinicians
- Usage of standardized terminology (ICD 10 CM) improves the accuracy of diagnosis
- Minimal usage of keyboard for typing as data entry can be made largely by clicking the mouse.
Key Benefits of Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
Doctors
- Instantaneous access of patients records
- Instantaneous access to lab results, radiology reports and images
- Easy referral of patients to the concerned specialists
- Saves clinician’s time by minimizing data entry through intuitive documentation
- Increased conformation to international standards in reporting and documentation
- Doctor’s orders tracking and reminders for to-do lists
- Improves care and promotes patient safety
- Eliminates manual data gathering, reducing staff workload and increasing physician satisfaction
- Facilitates physician mobility without compromising data accessibility or security
Patients
- Significant Reduction in waiting time
- Improves services, enhances process efficiency and thereby patient satisfaction
- No hassles carrying the lab results and radiology reports to the doctor
- Improved patient care as the doctors can focus on patient’s overall health
- Allergies permanently recorded on the patient record resulting in significant reduction of iatrogenic incidents
- Higher patient compliance and patient participation in care specially by use of sms’s
Hospitals
- Positions hospitals as progressive and technologically advanced within the community
- Serves as a competitive advantage for hospitals in their recruitment and retention of physicians and other clinical staff
- Saves valuable space by eliminating, medical records room. The personnel can be redeployed to other areas to enhance patient service and quality
- Improvement of quality standards to international level
- Increases revenue and reduce cost
- No lost charts or medical records
