Uncovered facts about EMR projects and software. Here is all you need to know.

EMR, an electronic medical record, alternatively referred to as EHR, an electronic health record.

One huge difference that electronic health records makes over the traditional process is, it drastically cuts down the time consumed in filling up of physical intake forms. Thereby, it saves a lot of time of the patients, the medical staff and the management as well, including the inventory management personnel.

These are a couple of best practices used by the hospitals in getting the most from their EMR investments. Obviously every investor wants to get best returns out of their investment. Dr. Joshua Baron is an EMR project optimization and documentation consultant at Great Lakes Informatics, Inc.Dr. Joshua Baron is from Chicago and has over a decade of experience in the clinical field.

Prima face, the outdated and the old generation mechanism of filling up of physical clinical forms can be complex, but if you optimize them effectively making it more user friendly in this electronic world of EMR projects and make things more simple to use, using the minimal tabs or clicks, it would save a great deal of time for the physician or the nurse to review the electronic medical record and finalize the note quite quickly than ever before.

Adding to these, allowing to synchronize the EMR application with cameras of phones, it helps to a great extent to update the pictures and surgery videos into the electronic record.

EMR optimization also ensures that its stakeholders have the correct information in the need of hour, to offer the best of the service they can, to their patients.

The successful implementation of an optimal and an effective EMR project also assists the healthcare centers in a feasible, cost effective and a time saving solution by addressing and arresting chronic health record management system issues with its high availability and ease of use.

The physicians can now focus on their treatment with a much dedicated approach taking the help of such user friendly EMR optimization consultants.

The physicians stress on recording the notes is also gradually reduced to a greater extent. In fact, the physicians now can even take out time to rate the EMR activities, which they have outsourced.

Another key feature of EMR software is that, any abnormal clinical information is now highlighted in color or bold to pull a quick attention of the stakeholder. The software also supports easy keying of data and also easy navigation in flipping through the records.

Most important functions of the EMR software include clinical entry, digital charting, decision support and clinical reporting. Collaborative medical care is the key to the success of EMR solutions.

Joshua Baron MD apart from being a clinical EMR specialist, also has keen interest in the areas of artificial intelligence driven audio to text software. EMR project is moving in this direction as well now. Besides, Joshua Baron also claims 5 years of experience to his credit, working as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Rush University Medical Center.

Joshua Baron also provided ‘at the elbow’ support to other end-users, physicians and nurses during Epic Ambulatory implementation.