Statistics Research: Electronic Medical Record System (EMR)

Electronic Medical Record System (EMR)
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Electronic Medical Record System (EMR)
The present essay henceforth discusses the application of EMRs in healthcare system elaborating on the literature review in part A and potential implementation of EMRs in the healthcare system.
* LITERATURE REVIEW ON IMPLEMENTATION OF EMRS
Implementation of Electronic Medical Record System (EMRs) in hospitals is essential. However, successful implementation of such systems comes with challenges. Different hospital setups implement EMRs in varied capacities with the majority of such premises applying it on full automation for efficiency, safety, and improvement of workflow among others. The current literature review uses the term "electronic medical record system" throughout the paper to review a range of EMRs users such as physicians, nurses, healthcare providers, chiropodists and clinicians among others. Implementation of EMRs henceforth helps in safe storage of records as well as enhancement of quality of healthcare delivery through collaboration since all the members need information when providing care to reduce errors as well as enhance recovery of patients.
Electronic Medical Records System (EMR) is a system that stores electronic records of health-related information of patients. The healthcare practitioners develop, gather, manage and consult to get the relevant information within a given healthcare organization (Chen, Lorenzi, Sandberg, Wolgast & Malin, 2017). The EMRs safely stores information detailing on diagnoses, medical history, medications, allergies and immunization date among others. Thus, it facilitates the workflow as well as improves the quality of healthcare delivery and safety of the patients.
According to Williams & Boren (2008) on the role of EMRs in care delivery, most of the hospitals’ managements appreciate the benefits of EMRs especially on its transformation on medical care practice. The authors affirmed that about nine articles highlighted the benefits such as enhancement of healthcare delivery, facilitation of decision making processes, ensuring accurate medical lists and prescriptions among others (Williams & Boren, 2008).
Contrary to the benefits of implementation of the EMRs, other researchers noted challenges especially in various hospitals in USA. Therefore, a baseline assessment is necessary. For instance, a research conducted by Poon, Jha, Christino, Honour, Fernandopulle, Middleton, &Kaushal (2006) in the evaluation of the HIT implementation in the USA compared the functionality of EMRs and financial benefits. The financial gain exceeded the approval of those with quality and safety advantages. However, there is a limitation in adoption especially in the ambulatory electronic health records and physician-patient communication due to financial challenges. The authors concluded that approval of EMRs is still slow and needs financial resources together with a change in policy especially on financial incentives to physicians to use the EMRs and pay-for-performance reimbursement to defray upfront investment costs and loss of productivity (Poon et al. 2006).
Indeed, healthcare system still lags behind in the implementation of the HIT especially th...