Electronic Medical Record System: Advantages, Disadvantages and Strategies for Effective Use

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Introduction
• The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is an
efficient system using which the healthcare data
of the patients are stored, accessed, gathered,
managed and used for application of healthcare
intervention in healthcare facilities (Abdekhoda
et al., 2016).
• As per Raymond et al. (2015), application of
EMR in healthcare facilities is helpful in
decreasing the documentation error and
increase the affinity and accuracy of the care
process.
• It also provides transparency and increases the
accessibility to the healthcare data of the patient
so that effective care could be implemented in
the healthcare settings (Dunn et al., 2016).
Electronic medical record system
Advantages
• It reduces the requirement of tiring paper works
due to which managing, storing and retrieving
those data becomes easier (Funmilola & Ozichi,
2015).
• It increases the effective collaborative between
healthcare professionals and hence effective
teamwork for effective care for patient is
developed.
• It helps the patients to access their data at any
time point as with electronic records they could
access it at any place without any serous
complication (Alpert, 2016).
Disadvantages
• In case of hacking of the EMR data, the complete
patient records with personal and healthcare
details are affected and hence, security of the
data within healthcare facility is questionable.
• As per Alpert (2016), irregular update of EMR
system increases the rate of healthcare error
which is a crucial disadvantage of this system.
• EMR system software are not cheaper and hence.
The lack of cheap and sustainable EMR system
affects the usability and availability of this system
in healthcare facilities (Funmilola & Ozichi, 2015).
Risk of patient safety and quality
• Healthcare professionals should be provided with
training and educational sessions so that they
could use the software without any error and
provide patients with effective interventions
(Alpert, 2016).
• The software should be updated regularly so that
with continuous update, EMR and associated
security could be increased (Funmilola & Ozichi,
2015).
• The patients using such system should be asked
to change their passwords in a regular interval so
that risk of hacking and data loss could be
eliminated (Abdekhoda et al., 2016).
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Strategies for effective use
Conclusion
References
• This poster provides details of the electronic
medical record system and mentioned the way it
decreases the pressure of paper
documentations and increased the ease of
healthcare recoding system.
• The advantage and disadvantages associated
with this system has been mentioned in this
poster.
• Further, the risk of data tampering and data
hacking has been mentioned in this poster.
• Strategies that should be implemented to
maintain the benefits of the EMR system has
been mentioned in this poster so that ethical
considerations could be maintained and effective
care could be provided to the patients.
• EMR system is widely used in healthcare
facilities around the world and with effective
distribution of this system, every type of
healthcare practices namely the medical
practice area, surgical practice area,
pharmacological distribution and other aspects
controlled and errors present in these sections
are eliminated (Yoo, Hwang & Jheon, 2016).
• The technological advancement provided by
the EMR system helps to keep a track of the
healthcare interventions applied on the patients
and the achievement of the goals developed by
the healthcare professionals (Dunn et al.,
2016).
• It also ensures that the ethical consideration of
patient’s privacy could be maintained and their
healthcare or personal detailed could only be
used with their consent (Paterick et al., 2018).
• The first risk could be associated to lack of proper
medication records. If the doctor does not have
access to EMR system, lack of medication record
could affect the health condition of the patient.
• As the EMR system is associated to the
healthcare facility, hacking of the hospital website
could affect or alter all the data present in the
EMR system of the patient, affecting the data
security 9 Manning & Pogorzelska-Maziarz,
2016).