| Functions of Electronic medical records |
EMR plays major role in improving productivity of the health service provider in many ways.
We can classify the function of EMR as mentioned below. |
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| Patient information recording: |
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EMR function starts with recording patient information. Such as patient demographic details, present illness, medical history of patient etc. The basic information of patient is collected through a standard template. |
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| External communication systems: |
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Communication between different units of a hospital is required for fast and effective processing of patient information. This function of EMR communicates between all the systems/units of a hospital such as laboratories, scanning canters, pharmacies and other similar units and connects them to hospital through HL7 interfaces. This entire process actually assists in speed up the process from gathering patient information to diagnosis, service and billing. |
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| Decision making: |
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EMR also helps the physicians in their decision-making by automatically providing recommendations. These recommendations are based on the patient information keyed-in to the EMR system. It makes physicians job easy while diagnosing the patient illness. |
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| Documentation and statistics reporting: |
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All the patient information processed and stored in database with each patient number as an key field. It will be helpful for the providers to quickly come up with patient history records in the future. EMR also allows the providers to generate reports based on many factors like monthly patient growth rate for a particular type of service, percentage of patients belong to particular to particular age group and many more. |
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