Quality
Studies find practices with EHR provided better quality care with improved care coordination.
DataMed systems are designed to store data accurately and to capture the state of a patient across time. Our systems eliminate the need to track down a patient's previous paper medical records and assists in ensuring data is accurate and legible. DataMed systems can reduce risk of data replication as there is only one modifiable file, which means the file is more likely up to date.
Studies find practices with EHR provided better quality care with improved care coordination.
Health information surveyors find that hospital administrators who had adopted EHR noted that any gains in efficiency.
The implementation of EMR can potentially decrease identification time of patients upon hospital admission.
Enables information to be used and shared over secure networks
Allows prescriptions and outcomes to be shared with doctors and patients
Enables information to move electronically between organizations
Per empirical research in social informatics, information and communications technology (ICT) use can lead to both intended and unintended consequences.
When a health facility has documented their workflow and chosen their software solution they must then consider the hardware and supporting device infrastructure for the end users.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society observed adoption rates have been slower than expected in the United States.