Electronic Health Record for Better and Safer Health Care

In Today’s health care technologies, treatments, medications, and procedures are changing rapidly and clinicians are supposed to incorporate them into their practice. Now physicians are expected to assimilate both new and old knowledge, apply that knowledge to their patients, remember each patient’s health status and background, and communicate quickly with patients, patient’s family, hospitals, and other providers. Earlier days, meeting these expectations as often been difficult because system to organize, store, and retrieve medical and patient information had not been present. But, Today Electronic Health Record exists that can help clinicians meet each of these challenges.

Earlier, the process of organizing, storing, and retrieving medical and patient information has been paper based. But this system is  inefficient for managing enormous amounts of medical and patient information that can affect patient care. 

For example: The  conventional medical record may be not useful because it is handwritten and poorly organized, making it difficult for physicians to locate he information they need about past medical tests and their results.

Patients who visit more than one care provider have several medical records, which often are shared with other physicians, laboratories, and hospitals.

Web Based Health Records improve quality of care and reduce costs

The Electronic health record system creates and stores an electronic patient record  from the medical history, physical assessments, laboratory reports, diagnoses, and treatments. Electronic health records help physicians in improving quality of care by reminding patient previous medical history and patient previous treatment plan. For example, rheumatic fever ( which can later cause damage to the valves of the heart) can result from an untreated strep infection.

When a physician orders a test or medication in the Electronic Health Record system, it displays the cost of the test and shows whether it has been ordered previously, make medication recommendations, give warning about dangerous drug interactions, and shows the patient active orders, allergies, diagnosis, vital signs, and test results.

Electronic health records improve access to patient record by any department, helping to reduce fragmentation of patient information.  DocEngage helps in connecting different hospital patient database. When one patient visits to one hospital for treatment and after some time he visits to another hospital for the same treatment in that case DocEngage helps in searching same patient information on the basis of name, age, gender, date of birth, and other information. When a patient match is found, the computer system then prints a patient report that contains a medical history, past hospitalizations reports, and clinic visits, immunizations, and laboratory results. Which saves a lot of cost.