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Advantages of Medical Related Technologies

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What are EMRs? EMRs or electronic medical records are technologies widely used in the US today which aims to improve medical practices in different health care providers or institutions, such as in a hospital, by giving them a way to quickly and efficiently store, access, and modify their patients medical records.

Advantages of EMR over the use of Paper-Based Records
EMR was introduced to eliminate the use of paper-based records in different health care institution, which is still a widely used form of recording a patients health and medical information. According to experts, by eliminating the use of paper-based records, EMR also eliminates the usual adverse effects of using pen and paper, such as:

Storage Costs
Patients health and medical records are normally stored in a secured storage facility for 7 years. The cost of storing these records is usually expensive, particularly if stored in a secured storage facility normally found outside a hospital or other health care institutions.

Digital storages, usually in a Hard Disk Drive, normally cost lesser compared to the use of storage facilities. And this digital information produced by an EMR can be storage not only for 7 years, but for more than that time.

Medical Errors
The use of paper-based records also posed a number of problems which caused a number of medical errors. Handwritten paper medical records can be associated with poor legibility, which can contribute to medical errors. Pre-printed forms, the standardization of abbreviations, and standards for penmanship were encouraged to improve reliability of paper medical records.

Electronic records help with the standardization of forms, terminology and abbreviations, and data input. Digitization of forms facilitates the collection of data for epidemiology and clinical studies.

According to a number of studies, the use of EMR software can verall efficiency by 6% per year, and the monthly cost of an EMR may (depending on the cost of the EMR) be offset by the cost of only a few “unnecessary” tests or admissions.

Difference with EHR
EMR and EHR are said to be similar with each other. However, there are several differences that separate both types of electronic records. The EMR can be defined as the legal patient record created in hospitals and ambulatory environments that is the data source for the EHR.

Healthcare Application Development- Benefitting Healthcare Industry

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To improve the delivery of lower-cost service and high-quality care, an integrated health care system has now become an absolute necessity. However, healthcare industry faces a unique set of challenges when developing an EHR or HIE system. This comprises Healthcare application validation, Health care system that will promote freedom of choice, reduce operational cost and optimize energy efficiency, and High level of architecture security for privacy law compliance and many more.

SugarCRM developers- developing successful healthcare application

By aligning your health care application development strategy with your overall business goals and strategies, SugarCRM developers will develop successful healthcare application from patient management systems to electronic health records (EHR) on SugarCRM Platform. They are expert who know that healthcare projects have a host of industry-specific requirements and that demand healthcare domain expertise combined with software best practices in order to build a flexible, timely and cost effective solution.

Customized Healthcare SugarCRM

Utilizing SugarCRM developers unique domain expertise, project methodology, and software architecture patterns, you can build healthcare applications in a customized fashion that address your business needs. That is, your healthcare organization can use the versatility of open source technology to adjust to variations in business needs or volume. To illustrate, consider a leading hospital that may need to increase customer relationship management (CRM) needs because of a peak in business activity. Instead of investing in additional software, staff, and maintenance, application platform resources can be customized to cope with this increase in business. Therefore, a company has a completely customizable business support tool that can grow alongside the business, which can save the company money by just paying for what is needed at a specific point in time.

Custom Application Development

SugarCRM professionals carries extensive experience of custom developing CCHIT compliant EHR / EMR software, Hospital Information System (HIS), Practice Management Software & Health Business Intelligence software using Open Source Technologies. They are expert in CCHIT Ambulatory EMR / EHR Software Production, CCHIT Consulting, CCHIT Inpatient EHR / EMR Software Enhancement, CCHIT Emergency Department Software Development, Integration of Drug Database with CRM, Practice Management Modules (PMS) in Sugar, Patient Portal System and complete EHR application on SugarCRM Platform, Nurses Training System in Sugar, ,Cardiovascular EMR software Consulting, Surescript integration, HL7 consulting and customization, and HIE compliant development.

The benefits of having access to the application development technology have significant implications for an organization of any size. These technologies allow a company to connect more efficiently and more economically with patients , customers, and suppliers. As a result, the ability to do business at greater efficiency allows for growth and profits.

In a nutshell, Healthcare industry is a quickly growing sector with huge opportunities and increasing competitive pressures. This is why, to keep up with an ever-changing technology, healthcare application development services has now become an absolute necessity for growing organizations.

Electronic Health Records (ehr) Benefits Of Going Digital

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Health records refer to the information stored about patients. It is a normal practice to maintain patient records in detail that includes patient history and other useful information. The record of past ailments, treatment, allergies, general health condition of the patient and so on is maintained by the doctor. These records serve as a base for treatment in case of any ailment in future. As of now the records were maintained manually by each concerned doctor and hospital. However, a new system called electronic health records (ehr) has been introduced by many IT companies for the healthcare industry.

The age old manual system of maintaining patient records is very tedious and time consuming. The manual process carries a large number of flaws at first the information can not be maintained in greater depths. There is always an element of error involved in the manual process. Incorrect information may prove to be fatal in the process of treatment. The biggest disadvantage of the manual process is that the information or the records are not centralized. At times of emergency the records are not available to the concerned doctor as there is lack of centralization. There seems to be an answer to the problem by way of electronic health records (ehr).

An electronic health record (ehr) is a process of maintaining the patient records electronically or in a digital format. The digitization of the health records helps to overcome the problems associated with the manual process of maintaining the records. At first it helps in saving a lot of time, detailed information can be maintained, reduction in errors, reduction in costs, improved quality of service and patient safety. The biggest advantage with the system is that the information can be centralized, which can be utilized at any point of time including emergencies.

Just like any new approach to doing things, electronic health records (EHR) has its advantages and disadvantages. At first it is a normal practice that people usually resist to changes, the same applies to the implementation of electronic health records. There are other requirements such as initial cost of implementation, training, and concerns about information safety due to its centralization. However, for sure the advantage of ehr outweighs the disadvantages associated with it.

The present US administration has made it a priority to move ahead with centralizing and putting patients’ medical record in digital format. A huge chunk of the economic recovery stimulus package has been earmarked for this project. It is hoped that when all is said and done, electronic medical records, a better way to keep records than pen and paper will be the order of the day.

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