Effectiveness of Electronic Patient File System in Healthcare Organizations

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................2
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
Reference List..................................................................................................................................5
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Introduction
The technological modification is essentially required for the healthcare organizations to provide
more patient-centred support. Moreover, it is capable to promote technological support to the
healthcare organizations to store the patient details for future use. The storing of patient details
promotes the holistic development of evidence-based care. Thus, this study will unfold the
effectiveness of Electronic Patient File (EPF). The study focuses on three main issues which
should be considered by the hospital management system to implement the EPF system. The
concluding part of the study will summarise the whole study and will outline the effectiveness of
the EPF system to customise a better consumer experience.
Analysis
The implementation of the updated technology enables healthcare organisations to provide better
customer experience. The medical institutions and professionals had a moderate version of
storing patient data that used to create complication in the future treatment. Thus, the
implementation of the EPF system is essentially required for healthcare organisations to support
updated and patient-centric care (Biankin et al., 2015). The hospital introduced the Electronic
Patient File system, in which the doctors are supposed to enter the details of the condition and
the treatment rather than a traditional paper file (Goyal et al., 2016). This information is
supposed to be available to other local practitioners because they will be connected to the
hospital’s Information System (Boddy et al., 2005). Most of the medical professionals have come
forward to join in this effort and have started to invest in several patient records keeping the
software. Several issues are attached with the implementation of EPF (Maillet et al., 2015). The
EPF system is also supportive in providing intranet and extranet facility.
Intranet: This is an online employee network facility where the medical staffs of the hospital can
develop, communicate and establish the organisational culture (Killett et al., 2016).
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