Posts Tagged: health informatics

How to Reduce Risk When Implementing an EHR System

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When upgrading your medical practice's records to an EHR system, there are steps you can take to improve safety and mitigate risk.

Electronic health records (EHRs), or electronic medical records (EMRs), are quickly becoming the industry standard when it comes to charting patient visits, including symptoms, test results, diagnoses, treatments, notes, and any other pertinent information that used to go into paper records. There are a lot more benefits to these digital systems than merely the speed of typing in information rather than writing it by hand. The use of electronic medical records software has revolutionized the way patient information is entered, stored, and shared, increasing efficiency not just in the office or hospital setting, but on an industry-wide scale. Plus, the…
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Common Challenges Training Your Staff to Use New EHR Systems

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Upgrading to a new EHR system can greatly improve your heath information management, but only if staff properly use these new tools.

Electronic Health Records (EHRs), also known as electronic medical records (EMRs), are basically just digital versions of the paper medical records used to chart a patient’s medical history. More and more, these virtual records are supplanting traditional files due to greater efficiency, ease of use, and extras like the ability to allow access to information. This, in turn, lets medical professionals securely share patient files with one another, while patients can also gain access to their own medical history as a means of remaining informed and making better decisions about their own healthcare. In other words, there’s a lot to…
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Reasons Why Your Healthcare Practice Needs Up-to-Date Technology

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Certain technologies have become so commonplace that households with computers, tablets, smartphones, and other electronic devices have become the norm. Even with constant advances in consumer electronics, the latest technologies are still relatively affordable (or they will be if you wait a year). Unfortunately, the same is not always true within the healthcare industry. Like other aspects of medicine, the most up-to-date technologies can suffer from high prices. That said, there are ways to offset the costs of purchasing new tech for your medical practice and there are several reasons why you should remain current where technology is concerned. Improved Patient…
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