An EMR contains the standard medical and clinical data gathered in one provider’s office. EHRs go beyond the data collected in the provider’s office and include a more comprehensive patient history.
EHRs place accurate and complete information about patients’ health and medical history at providers’ fingertips.
Electronic health record (EHR) systems can decrease the fragmentation of care by improving care coordination.
EMR scanning is the very import part between paper-based records/forms and paperless information management. Secure, accurate medical records scanning is critical for both quality of care and legal compliance. However, the scan-to-EMR process is often a costly and cumbersome step in otherwise efficient offices. Whether in a small practice or a large hospital, employees have precious little time to spend scanning stacks of documents.
In most cases, much of this paper arrives via fax and is still printed. Employees must not only collect the faxed pages and manually scan each one into the EMR, but also take great care to comply with HIPAA regulations about visibility of protected health information (PHI). As health care costs rise and budgets decrease, this laborious process may become unsustainable.
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