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Table of Contents
The Business Case for Investing in EHR within a Doctor’s Practice..............................................................1
The requirements for a doctor’s practice................................................................................................1
Software package solutions – vendor and software................................................................................2
References...................................................................................................................................................4

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The Business Case for Investing in EHR within a Doctor’s Practice
Doctors are having number of patients and all patients are having different types of symptoms
and treatment. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a health record of individual patients to use for
further treatment. This record has used as a history of patients in future (Angst & Agarwal, 2009).
The requirements for a doctor’s practice
Doctors need all the health record of patient to diagnosis about the diseases and their
treatments. In human body, all things are interrelated. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a record
based on tests and daily reports of different test. In present era, most of the people connect through
technologies (Palvia, Lowe, Nemati, & Jacks, 2012). Therefore, it is a basic need of people to manage
their different works through technology, such as internet, laptop, iPad, and many other devices and
softwares. Doctor faces many issues in the search process of documents of patients. Many patients are
having long time diseases. Therefore, they have many data about their physical condition during
treatment. Doctors are having many constraints related to the patient’s data and information, such as
privacy and security issues. It is also having constraints from government side (Blumenthal & Tavenner,
2010).
Doctors have many research documents and they want results and data about the previous
patients to provide proper treatment to new patients based on the research results. Doctors have many
processes and they provide different services to their patients. It starts from appointment, but after
appointment, many services are start, such as tests, precautions, health checkups, reminders, and many
other services (Romano & Stafford, 2011). In a hospital, three stakeholders considered which are
doctors, patients, and management. However, buyer and supplier are also considering in stakeholders of
the complete system. Suppliers supply medicines, test results, and many other materials, which are
needful for patient’s treatment (Fernández-Alemán, Señor, Lozoya, & Toval, 2013).
EHR software provides many advantages to the doctors in different perspectives. It provides
many improvements in the reduction in medical error, quality of care, and many others. In terms of
organizational outcomes, it provides improvement in operational performance and financial
performance of the organization. These are the benefits of the EHR software to the organization (Hsiao
& Hing, 2012).

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EHR and clinical outcomes: EHR provides three components for quality care of patients, which
are equitable access, timeliness, and centeredness. EHRs can improve adherence rate using the CDS
tools. EHRs are also helpful form the societal public health perspective. It provides guidelines to keep
individuals healthy based on their medical tests data. It also reduces risk of disease (Häyrinen, Saranto,
& Nykänen, 2008).
It reduces different cost of the organization and it increases revenue through regulatory
compliance, descries billing errors, improved cash flow, and it increases patients routine health visits. It
provides societal benefits in terms of research. It collects large amount of data from medical records of
patients, which can used in research purpose (Jensen, Jensen, & Brunak, 2012).
There are some potential disadvantages of EHRs, which are related to the security, EHR
adoption, privacy, and many unintended consequences in the use of that system. EHRs have few issues,
which are related to the financial conditions. It has required different types of cost, such as purchasing,
implementation, training of end-users, and converting documents into electronic ones (Menachemi &
Collum, 2011). The maintenance cost of EHRs can also be high, as there are many changes in hardware
and softwares. EHRs are having privacy violations risk, as large amount of data transfer using electronic
way. It makes many unintended consequences, such as overdependence on technology, increased
medical error, and negative emotions (Weiskopf & Weng, 2013).
Software package solutions – vendor and software
In Australian market, there are many vendors, which provide software solution for Electronic
Health Records (EHR) services. In present market, there are many software Vendors available with lots
of services, which are related to the healthcare sector, such as Epic, GE healthcare, NextGen, Greenway,
CureMD, Kareo, CareCloud, and many others (softwareadvice.com, 2019). Care cloud is easy to navigate
and versatile software. It is designed for fulfill all the need of practices in which customer can also design
their personal health record. It is an application, which is running on the Amazon Web Service (AWS). It
takes $628 per month for the EHRs Modules ( Ferrill , The Best Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
Managers of 2018, 20118).
Organziation requires computer systems, servers, and a secure network to implement EHRs in
their premises. There is security and privacy risk in that system. In the implementation of EHRs, every
staff has some roles and responsibility to use that system with security. It has different architecture in
which different people connect with the wired and wireless network to share information.