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There are several facets to electronic health records (EHR) that could be seen over the board as evolving the way in which medicine is practiced presently. To begin with the EHR in the tiniest sense is a medical record that the individual can control. For example it would be the official transcript as they say on your health history.
In a broader sense, electronic health records (EHR) can then be thought of as being controlled by a specific institution, billing provider, clinic, or physicians office. In this sense your history can be simply shared across other medical facilities. And taken this step a stride further you have the EMR or electronic medical record that is comprised of by hospitals and ambulatory services.
These many advantages impact both the individual and also the world of medicine collectively. With the sharing of information it may in a single sense prevent the duplication or overlapping of dangerous medications. On the other hand the broader sense can be gathered and change the medical field based on systematic review and research in the field.
The main advantages of the EHR system also could result in an overall decrease in the cost of running the health care industry. Such staggering numbers as close to $2 trillion per year are assigned to both the National Health Accounts and Medicare alone. The forecasts are that a standardized electronic processing of the data could save $23 billion to those accounts and much more than $31 billion to the private payers.
Obviously the EHR programs provide their fair share of disadvantages as well. Any program of this magnitude has its own variables that can not be known until the system is in effect. As the cost savings are forecasts, the expense to get the system implemented can be incredible.
While the long-term benefits are significant, the time and money spent implementing a new program aren't convincing a few of the larger organizations completely down to the individual medical doctors that now is the time to alter the system. Again, this change affects both the individual and the big organizations with regards to the healthcare industry.
In spite of time or money along with the benefits and drawbacks an EHR system would suggest, there is a bigger question in regards to ethics of the program. As no digital system is without any consumer error there is a chance of report error. Yet again, over the bigger scope there exists a chance of the information getting into the wrong hands or technological complications shutting down the medical reporting programs.
With glitches with this size and human being medical issues at risk, the electronic health records face lasting liability for mistakes. Legal costs along with already extremely high mistakes and omissions insurance for individual doctors may be more than one organizations can manage in developing the system.
In a broader sense, electronic health records (EHR) can then be thought of as being controlled by a specific institution, billing provider, clinic, or physicians office. In this sense your history can be simply shared across other medical facilities. And taken this step a stride further you have the EMR or electronic medical record that is comprised of by hospitals and ambulatory services.
These many advantages impact both the individual and also the world of medicine collectively. With the sharing of information it may in a single sense prevent the duplication or overlapping of dangerous medications. On the other hand the broader sense can be gathered and change the medical field based on systematic review and research in the field.
The main advantages of the EHR system also could result in an overall decrease in the cost of running the health care industry. Such staggering numbers as close to $2 trillion per year are assigned to both the National Health Accounts and Medicare alone. The forecasts are that a standardized electronic processing of the data could save $23 billion to those accounts and much more than $31 billion to the private payers.
Obviously the EHR programs provide their fair share of disadvantages as well. Any program of this magnitude has its own variables that can not be known until the system is in effect. As the cost savings are forecasts, the expense to get the system implemented can be incredible.
While the long-term benefits are significant, the time and money spent implementing a new program aren't convincing a few of the larger organizations completely down to the individual medical doctors that now is the time to alter the system. Again, this change affects both the individual and the big organizations with regards to the healthcare industry.
In spite of time or money along with the benefits and drawbacks an EHR system would suggest, there is a bigger question in regards to ethics of the program. As no digital system is without any consumer error there is a chance of report error. Yet again, over the bigger scope there exists a chance of the information getting into the wrong hands or technological complications shutting down the medical reporting programs.
With glitches with this size and human being medical issues at risk, the electronic health records face lasting liability for mistakes. Legal costs along with already extremely high mistakes and omissions insurance for individual doctors may be more than one organizations can manage in developing the system.
About the Author:
Belle Florentine has spent the last two decades as a software programmer for one of the most respected companies in the development of electronic healthcare records. Florentine is now retired and spends a majority of her time updating their blogs and authoring an online book on the history, evolution, and future of electronic medical records (EMR).
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