What would happen if all health care organizations were required to adopt an electronic health record system? How would this affect efficiency, privacy, data storage, ease of record access, and cost?
Healthcare has come a long way and moving into an electronic system is just the beginning of an advantage in the world today. For the most part electronic data ensures the best care for patients. Patients have access to their own medical information and reduce cost or more cost effective. The healthcare system benefits by tracking and retrieving HER data as well as reducing duplication of testing and cost. The digital format allows sharing patient information is also a benefit as information can be faxed or E-script to other associated physicians. Electronic health record system was a good transformation to support with efficient and safe care. All clinical information is stored separate among providers to ensure privacy and documentation management. However, the EHR system was created to improve accuracy and outcomes. Cloud has also been a benefit as it analyzes and identifies challenges and measures patient information terms and cost. To enhance the standards in healthcare, electronically leads to quality improvement, availability and decreasing medical errors. Cost decrease and a clinical data model to meet the need by replacing the human work that was once a lot of paper work. And lastly E-signature to protect the privacy of patients and staff to prevent any HIPPA issues.
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