Electronic Health Record of Patient

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Electronic Health Record of Patient
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1ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD OF PATIENT
An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is the digitalized version of the patient’s documents.
EHRs carry real-time, patient centered records and these information are instantly accessible to
the authorized person in a secure way. The main goal purpose of using a EHRs is to increase the
patient participation in the treatment process, improve the diagnostics and patient outcome, and
enhance the quality of the patient care and also to provide an efficient cost effective patient care.
The EHRs are composed of the patient history, diagnosis of the patient, medications of the
patients, pathological test results of the patient that is the laboratory and other test results. In
addition, the radiology images of the patients, any kind of allergy sensitivity, and date of
immunization are also mentioned in the EHR system. Moreover the information of the EHR can
be created and managed by health care workers of more than one health care organizations
(Department of Health and Human Service, 2019).
The EHRs implementation in the health care setting can face a few barriers such as
usability of the EHRs system, technical ability of the users of EHRs system, privacy issue related
to the EHRs, cost of the EHRs system. Moreover it can be said that, in an organization the
barriers of EHRs system can differ from one person to another. For example it can be said that,
in a hospital setting a nurse or a doctor may face different problem related to EHRs. The
usability challenge of a EHRs system may occur due to the multiple screen, unclear navigation
and also due to too much control buttons of the system. Lack of understanding the new
technology of the EHRs system may appear as a barrier in front of the users of that system in the
name of technical ability and it is very crucial to have computer knowledge to handle this
system. The rural health care persons and older age people may face such problem while using
this system. Many patients raise their concern about the security of the EHRs system as it has
immense risk of facing cyber-attacks (Department of Health and Human Service, 2019). In order