Is paper really that reliable? Paper has no built in security devices; paper will not obligate someone to fill it out in the correct format, there are no second chances with paper and paper travels very slowly. Believe it or not, the healthcare industry is still using paper instead of technology to record vital information. The solution? Electronic Medical Records (EMR).



Information in the health care industry needs to be easily and rapidly transferred. As patients transfer from one medical practice to another, their records should be available and easy to receive. As more practices install an emr system, this will be easily done and reduce the headaches of both the patients and the medical practices. Much money can be saved by using this valuable resource.

Most software has voice recognition capabilities that will totally erase the need for transcription of your dictations. It might be constructive to a business to be able to track where their consumers go through the majority of holdups in their system. After the problem is located a solution to make it more efficient can be a reached thus making the entire process easier to navigate. By doing so, patients will be happier and their visits will be more efficient. The correct EMR software allows ways to track that type of necessary information and can direct you to effective and productive solutions.

EMR Software runs off of a tablet PC allowing a physician to carry it in to the room with the patient. There are many features to this software that are very beneficial to a medical practice. Some of these include and are not limited too: housing files for medical histories, retrieving information of prescriptions, and giving the doctor the ability to call for MRI or X-RAY tests. It doesn't get any better than that! That alone is a feature sure to impress any patient. This awesome technology will help to label any office as a forward thinking, technologically advanced practice.

You might wonder what the down side is for this software. Well, honestly there isn't much of a downside besides the normal headaches you get with any new technology. Of course there will be some bugs to work out and there will constantly be new updates to better improve the software.

But when weighing the positives and negatives of changing to an Electronic Medical Record system remember that people, particularly patients, find comfort in knowing that their doctor is a forward thinking person. A patient who sees their doctor walk-in with a tablet PC containing files of information to aid in their diagnosis is more likely to give that doctor their confidence. And a doctor who has no patient confidence has no patients.