The Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is a comprehensive longitudinal electronic record of patients and depending on the individual systems design; it may incorporate the patients demographics progress notes and other relevant medical records thus providing a streamlines workflow for the clinician.
With proper design and implementation the EMR can be able to produce a full record of the clinical patient encounter. A new design that incorporates a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and combines with web services promises new benefits of interoperability of EMR systems. The benefit of having web services for the system is that there already exist several standards for web services there systems having a web service provision can be ported or interlinked with other similar systems.
The use of EMR heralds a chance for improving international cooperation in the medical field as technology becomes affordable and widespread. Electronic health records help to improve the quality of care while saving the implementation cost. EMR provide a converged single system for managing eight components designed to enhance patients safety namely health information and data management of results and order entry decision support electronic communication and connectivity patient support administration and reporting and population health management (Wang et al. 2003).
Strengths
Implementation of the electronic health records provides the benefits of a faster and accurate delivery of guideline based care whilst providing surveillance and monitoring capabilities. Electronic records eliminate the difficulty of interpreting poorly handwritten records by medical staff. It increases the turnaround time for lab results in emergency departments as well as the administration of the first dose of antibiotics for in-patient nursing units. Other areas that benefit from electronic health records are the cardiac related risk factors in patients and patient recalls which are more effective in the ambulatory care. Electronic Health records make it easy to identify patients qualifying for research studies a task that is otherwise difficult to accomplish. The system reduces duplication and makes health information better to consumers (Barey 2009).
EMR is an opportunity for the nursing profession to build on their understanding of research evidence-based practices and innovation as they optimize patient care and health outcomes since EMR is a transformation from a disconnected inefficient paper based segments of care delivery to a nation-wide interconnected and interoperable system (Barey 2009).
Weakness
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