Unit 1 DB - Medical Records - Record Functions and Users

Unit 1 DB - Medical Records - Record Functions and Users

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Instructions : What do you think are the pros and cons of having many users of medical records or having few users of medical records ? Website references only . Wikipedia , not an acceptable website

Electronic Medical Records (EMR 's ) are medical or health records of the patient that are maintained electronically and can be utilized to enter store and update the medical history , place s for X-rays , tests and laboratory investigations , enable the user to place

prescriptions , and provide alerts , messaging and reminders to the users . Across the US the Federal government has imposed certain standards to ensure that the EMR 's installed can meet certain specifications in usage . Within a timeframe , various hospitals and organizations in the US have to replace the old system with the EMR system . By the year 2014 , the entire US would have a fully functional EMR system . This would have several implications for the healthcare system , with improvements in quality reductions in costs and medical errors , handling greater number of patients , effective transfer of health information , better securing of medical information , etc (HHS , 2006

In a larger hospital , there is frequent requirement that many users would be trying to access the health information of the patient at the same time . Frequently , the users would be using the EMR as a messaging system basically to communicate information and to receive or place s /prescriptions . However , having greater number of users would have...