With the advent of Electronic Health Records, healthcare has taken gigantic strides toward improving patient care coordination and administration.  e-Prescribe (Electronic Prescriptions) has also revolutionized the prescription industry as well.  e-Prescribe has improved medical prescriptions in several key ways, notably:  preventing medical errors (contraindications and interactions), improving drug dispensing and monitoring, as well as giving the medical community through the usage of aggregate data a better understanding of prescription trends and/or problems associated with how we prescribe medications.  e-Prescribe and the ability to gather medical data through our EHRs also affects our understanding of public health as well.  Are we overprescribing certain medications that can lead to unintended…

  1. PATIENT PORTAL Patients can now see the state of their health profile and interact with their physician through encrypted e-mail and messaging. Patients can schedule or reschedule appointments right from their online portal, as well.  This saves countless hours for your staff and also cuts down on missed appointments. Direct communication allows the patient the ability to ask questions in-between visits.  These questions can assist the patient in understanding directions from the physician during their appointments and improve health care outcomes.   Often patient portal is imperative, and an important part of the EHR experience for both the provider and the patient.  The patient is the most…

One of the vital components of your decision for selecting the right EHR for your company is the ability of the EHR to utilize graphical analysis tools and radiological imaging, facilitate precise and accurate laboratory data efficiently, having a quality care grid and tasking system that will fit your needs, having the ability to share data within facilities both in and out of network quickly, and having an EHR system that can dynamically eliminate time wastage to improve on patient satisfaction and health outcomes, as well as; improving the health care facility through a powerful scheduling tool which can serve inpatients, outpatients or both.  Through these tools, the…