Implementing Emr

Implementing EMR

EMR stands for electronic medical record. It is primarily employed at an institution that provides health care facilities i.e. at a hospital or at a physician’s clinic. Its primary purpose is to improve the communication among different departments of a hospital to increase productivity, to minimize errors and to improve customer care. One of the main characteristics of EMR is its cohesive bond with information and technology (IT). The reason for employing IT is to make sure that all the organizational information stored in hospital’s mainframe can be communed to particular departments, which need particular information. Of course this approach takes technical expertise of people associated with IT and additional expenses, but on the bright side it decreases all the other costs i.e. cost of paper based information system. Thus, decreases the errors and mishaps by a considerable margin and saves a lot of time that can be utilized in other areas of the hospital to increase productivity.

EMR is most beneficial when it comes to time saving. In times of recession, where many hospitals are closing down or going bankrupt, EMR comes as life saver in maintaining and obtaining patient records. It is particularly helpful in times of quarantine and medical panics where manually trying to get patient information could be a tedious task, that might take a lot of time, but with EMR this problem has been solved comprehensively. All the doctors, surgeons, technicians or attending physician has to enter the general information of the patient i.e Name, Birthday, Day of admittance in the hospital and the patient’s complete record will pop-up on the computer screen. The following chart is taken from MSDC, (Medical Systems Development Corporation), to illustrate the benefit of using EMR instead of manual medical record keeping,(Benefits of EMR, 2008)

EMR is useful because the information can be transferred from one place to another easily and swiftly. Due to which...