By: Femi Akinnigbagbe
How can technology improve healthcare services for patients, Make
health care services more efficient, and help sustain our health care system in
years to come? Imagine the number of time doctors try to recall patients’
history, the amount of time required to wait for a laboratory or diagnostic
result in other to make an informed decision plan for patient or the time
required to get patients medication history from other healthcare provider in
other to change medication for patient. Have you ever wondered if there is a
better way to capture and solve this information distribution problem?
The use of technology vis-a-vis the introduction of Electronic Medical
Record such as CureMD,
Genesys, eClinical works as an application that aid in recording
clinical data electronically, it help in decision making, orders exchange,
taking record of all activities done on patient in the pharmacy shop, X-ray and
even laboratories. However, advantage of Health Management Information System’s
makes it possible for great control within the healthcare space and this is
achieved by a simple synchronization of activities.
Health care services can be improved with the use of EMR for
instance, fewer storage space will be required thereby reducing cost for
storage and reduced time to search for patients’ record using the old paper and
folder file system. Electronic management of medical information as the case is
with EMR solutions help yield results faster than usual as compared to paper
medical records. Hence an increase in speed of information retrieval and
overall hospital management.
In addition, implementation of EMR
help to reduce errors found in patients’ health record, this serve as an
advantage to the patients because records are accurately taken and stored, at
the point of retrieval, the same stored result is gotten back, there is no
place for error or mixed up file as in the case of paper storage; this help in
proper diagnosis and treatment of patient, it eradicate the error of
mistreatment, this is only possible with the help of technology.
Electronic medical record incorporates the file sharing capability
into its system. Another technological
tool which causes a streamlined interoffice communication and this enable
clinicians to be able to send and receive different records of patients with
other clinicians and patients, this help to reduce waste of time and redundant
tests. This file sharing ability has been exhibited by lot of EMR Company in
the state such as Nextgen, Epic and Genesys.
In conclusion, the Introduction of technology into the healthcare
sector has opened up vistas into more innovations to come. There are lots of
tech solutions rendering such services around the globe and the Genesys HMIS
solution is one with a unique advantage and enormous features which is by no
small means taking healthcare to the next level of superfast service delivery.
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