The use of EHR aims to ensure the availability of particular patient information alongside creating lifelong records. It also aims at ensuring patients have desirable access to all material health records which significantly helps in enhancing the quality of care among patients (Espinoza et al., 2020). By making patients’ information available, EHR helps in ensuring vaccination, medications, and immunization. Through proper utilization of the available information, EHR has become extremely productive through transformations some of which have made patient care dynamic in the entire health system.
The use of EHR in the hospital setting has greatly impacted quality outcomes and reduced the rate of nurse turnover and overall cost of health. The tool has helped in ensuring timely availability of patients’ information, standardization of care, error reduction, and proper communication among all healthcare givers. In this regard, the tool has greatly minimized cases of errors and delays through proper communication systems.
The use of the device has also ensured visibility of patients’ preferences as they are allowed to select their preferred language (Gold et al., 2017). Besides, there exist options for their care plans which might either be verbal, visual, or written according to their choice. Most patients, especially the elderly, have access to telehealth, which helps them to reduce the burden of cost visiting hospital settings. Appointments can also be made through simple clicking of the mouse and within one’s place of comfort.
The use of EHR enhances the interdisciplinary group and eventually, it is expected to replace the need for paper filing hence minimizing the chances of misplacing patients’ information. The use of the tool will help in ensuring nurses get access to patient data with a simple click of a button, hence enhancing timely coordination among caregivers (Espinoza et al., 2020). For this reason, experts in labs, clinics, and hospitals have improved interaction through the use of the tool.
References
Espinoza, J., Shah, P., & Raymond, J. (2020). Integrating continuous glucose monitor data directly into the electronic health record: proof of concept. Diabetes technology & therapeutics, 22(8), 570-576. Web.
Gold, R., Cottrell, E., Bunce, A., Middendorf, M., Hollombe, C., Cowburn, S., Mahr, P. & Melgar, G. (2017). Developing electronic health record (EHR) strategies related to health center patients’ social determinants of health. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 30(4), 428-447. Web.