The system also gives patients the choice of sharing their information with family members securely if they would like or just keepfor their own personal use. When health organization have access digital medical records makes it possible to improve quality of patient care in a lot of ways by lefting doctors be able to make better clinical decisions with this access to full medical histories for patients such as new patients, returning patients, or patients who see a lot of different doctors or specialists. It helps with lab test, xrays, medication allergies and help doctors to be able tosend in prescription electronically to pharmacy so a patient can go straight and get their medication rather than waiting on the doctor to write a prescription and taking it to the pharmacy and waiting on them to fill it. This heps make efficiency, pravicy data storage and record accessand the cost of using this system away of saving the organization time and money with being able to make this system to make things better with providing care for all patients and for the organization.
References:
The Future of Health Care and Electronic Records (July-13-2010)
By: Dr. David Blumenthal/ Former NationalCoordinatior for Health Information Technology
Retrieved from: http://www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/electronic-health-and-medical-records/the-future-of-health-care-and-electronic-records/
Electronic Health Records: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Oct-14-2013)
By: George Palma,MD.
Retrieved from: www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/electronic-health-records-the-good-the-bad-and-the ugly.html
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