Analyzing the Future of Electronic Medical Record in Healthcare

This report examines the future of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) in healthcare. It anticipates significant changes in the next five years, driven by advancements in technology such as virtual assistants and artificial intelligence (AI), which will assist physicians and facilitate precision medicine through informatics tools. The EMR will enhance patient engagement and be better integrated with telemedicine, allowing providers to offer care remotely. Key priorities include improved security and privacy, addressing the high costs of healthcare data breaches. The report also highlights the importance of an open application program interface (API) for greater understanding and benefits. Furthermore, it discusses the shift to mobile and cloud-based storage, with smart devices contributing to patient data collection and storage. The report references key publications in nursing informatics and healthcare technology to support its findings.

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The health systems are moving towards an electronic health record model of caring.
In the next five years, so many changes can be made with the electronic medical record. As
the modern technology is running at break less pace as well as it will be having some impact
on ERM. As the virtual assistants and the AI is becoming more accessible, more powerful
and they shall begin appearing in the IT fields of the health care services. The leopard
thinking will be implemented very soon, and that will be in a smooth way (McGonigle &
Mastrian, (2015). The virtual assistants are also coming online for helping the physician
burdens. One more thing that will be going to be an essential thing, via the informatics tool,
the clinicians will be allowed to tap into the vast database that belongs to the facilitating
precisions medicines, patients. The EMR will also enhance the engagement of the patients as
the patients are becoming integral to the experience of the patients. Within the next few
years, the EMR will be better to be integrated into the telemedicine (Long et al., 2016). As a
result, the providers will get an opportunity for providing care any time anywhere, and it will
be no matter where the p) patient actually is.
Within the next five years, the most significant change that will be implemented is the
improvement in security and privacy. Privacy and security improvements will be going to be
one of the top priority for moving forward (Brennan & Bakken 2015). The data breaches that
belong to the health care sector; the average cost is six billion dollars per year. One of the
significant changes that will be implemented within the next five years is the integration of
telehealth. Within the telehealth integration, the health care professionals and the patients will
be able to be linked remotely, also by breaking down the barrier of geography that is natural
at a similar time. A doctor will be able to provide care to a patient in a rural area remotely
(Sylvia & Terhaar, 2014). The integration of EMR is required to collect as well as document
all of the findings of the remote consultations.

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I want to see an application program interface to be used openly. In an effort for
gaining a greater understanding of the benefits and the concerns of the open application
program interface for the market of health care. The office of the national coordinator for the
health information technology has already launched an API task force. One more thing that
should be implemented in the electronic medical record is the move to the mobile, cloud and
beyond. If the primary benefits of the EMR systems are that all of the information about the
patient should be available at any time anywhere, as soon as the privacy and security will be
solved, more details about the patients, more records related to the electronic health will be
able to be stored into the cloud storage. The smart watches will be able to track as well as
upload the information about the patient in to the cloud storage directly.

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Brennan, P. F., & Bakken, S. (2015). Nursing needs big data and big data needs
nursing. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(5), 477-484.
Sylvia, M., & Terhaar, M. (2014). An approach to clinical data management for the doctor of
nursing practice curriculum. Journal of Professional Nursing, 30(1), 56-62.
Long, J. D., Gannaway, P., Ford, C., Doumit, R., Zeeni, N., Sukkarieh‐Haraty, O., ... &
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based practice: The EBR Tool. Worldviews on Evidence‐Based Nursing, 13(1), 59-65.