When it comes to using an EHR or EMR, one is far superior to the other. Let’s see which one performs advanced functions.
First of all, let’s elucidate how EHR and EMR are distinct from each other in a single word,interoperability. EHR is essentially an EMR with interoperability: the ability by which an EHR can share and exchange data among different platforms of healthcare. With one feature that makes EHR a better software than EMR, let’s move forward and see what other edges EHR has over EMR.
EMRs limit the data of a patient to a facility. So, what happens in an EMR is that medical information of a patient is collected, changed, and discussed with providers and staff within a single organization. In the process of using an EHR, integrated data is shared, consulted, managed among more than one healthcare facility with providers and their staff; allowing providers and practitioners to be efficient in reaching out to the patient.
EHRs allow the information to be transformed systematically with the patient, allowing the process of going to a specialist, the hospital and even moving across states reachable between patient’s healthcare providers and practices. EMR lacks this capacity to reach beyond a single organization.
A simple yet very powerful feature of an EHR is that it reduces paperwork across platforms. The usage of data stored on printed paper is reduced by allowing the electronic data to be transferred seamlessly across multitudes of healthcare providers. EMR can save paper of a single organization, and the limiting factor of an EMR is that the data of a patient needs to be printed to take out of the organization while EHR because of its extensive reach is able to transcend this limitation.
EHR allows even the patients’ to see their past medical log for the past year. This compelling feature is absent in an EMR. It allows the patients’ to simulate energy in them to change their lifestyle; encouraging them to take medication with regularity, essentially decreasing the burden on the provider and improving their health.
With an , you can achieve higher Rate of Investment (ROI) by exchanging the data electronically among organizations, the healthcare providers save their costs in terms of reduction of staff members needed to mange patients’ data and the need to transfer patients’ information from one healthcare provider to another. Apart from that, EHR eliminates the need to do redundant tests on patients’ in turn saving costs.
In essence, EHR provides a higher degree of clinical decision making information by integrating patient data from numerous sources and with that it not only saves costs but proves itself a better system than an EMR.
