Practitioners like anyone else practice speciality and can benefit from the Electronic Health Record (EHR) software. But the electronic health record system should be able to suit the needs of practitioners. A family practice EHR should assist the practitioner to foster long term relationship with their patients and provide aid in incorporating number of complaints.
EHR is very critical in the modern era to improve patient care. Nowadays many practitioners are attracting to adopt electronic health record system with the aim to improve efficiency, minimize cost, reduce chances of lost records, prevent medical and clinical errors, enhance credibility of billing procedures and provide mobile access to patients.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) system enables practitioner to benefit from some useful features such as electronic alert system, reminders and easily monitoring records. EHR is often mentioned for its capability to prevent medical and clinical errors that help to avoid additional drug costs and ensure timely availability of medical history during emergency.
EHR is replacing old techniques of recording data in manual, handwritten and fax notes. But many in healthcare industry face adoption difficulties. Before choosing any EHR system, practitioner needs to consider the following factors;
1. Does the EHR suit my needs?
Practitioners need to ask their vendor whether the EHR system will offer solution to their current and future needs. Practitioners and hospitals should ask the following questions from vendors; is it easy to use? How secure the system is? Does it keep back-up of files? Does the system incorporate complaints registered by clients?