Tech trends
Browse the Cart for the Right ‘EMR’ Integrating EMR into the system needs expertise and decision to choose the brand along with a zeal to make technology as the backbone for the business in the rapidly increasing digital world By Shally Makin
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oday, the motto ‘turning digital’ is behind every successful management. EHR/EMR is the database of all patient records, which include both clinical and financial. This technology oriented process is best implemented when a system meets clinical, business, and administrative needs. The hospitals, nowadays, aim to adopt a paperless practice and a virtual assistant for keeping records. Writing prescription is again a time consuming task, therefore an ideal EMR should maintain formulary information by health plan, which provides drug-interaction, checking, allergy and patient education. Keeping a record for a billion people is a tedious work to maintain therefore a scalable process is required to streamline the process of maintaining information. Kiran John, Head - Marketing and Presales, SCIOinspire Corp, says, “EMRs store a wide range of information about patients including demographics; medical history: documentation of events, diagnosis, symptoms, treatment, outcomes, and test results – lab and imagining; associated documentation; and administrative information.
The implementation of EHR is done in two ways:
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Big Bang
Incremental or Modular
• All of core EHR components are deployed at once • More disruptive to practice • More rapid RoI • More rapid implementation • More resources required
• Specific components one module at a time • Less disruptive to practice • Longer time period to achieve RoI • Longer implementation process • Fewer upfront resources required
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