EHR: Adapting Workflows

Many healthcare practices across the country may be running their operations through an online-based electronic health records (EHR) system or are moving to implement one. When the web-based EHR goes live, practice administrators realize that this requires some changes to the workflow pattern. Here are some things to consider according to EHR support vendors: 

Realizing the Need for Electronic Health Records

Most hospitals back then had relied on written patient records which they store for future references. Papers, however, are susceptible to damage, and there’s the likelihood of loss of physical copies of records, and the federal government has long before acknowledged the benefits of electronic health records in reducing deaths caused by medical errors.

What is EHR?

EHR is an electronic health record, or a digital documentation of a patient’s medical history and other medical data such as immunization status and allergies, medications, hospitalization records, and other things. 

It’s All Up in the Cloud

Medical practices, especially the ones serving a small community, can be swamped by tons of paperwork as much as treating a stream of patients coming over. Some workflow support providers may recommend filing any electronic health records (EHR) into a cloud-based EHR system to ease the stress. It can be natural for practitioners who use conventional means to raise questions about the system, but here are a few answers: