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EMR vs. Paper Charts

This page is still under development, but the plan is to have a listing of all the reasons why EMR is better than Paper Charts. Here’s a post that I have already done about pluses for EMR over paper charts.

Here’s a few more ideas off the top of my head that I’ll be posting more on later:
-Much Easier to Find Charts
-Multiple People Can Use a Chart
-Lab Results Returned Automatically
-XRay Results Returned Automatically
-Save a Tree
-No Misread Writing
-Scripts Printed Readable
-Spell check
-7 copies of records in multiple places(db backup)
-Drug/Allergy interaction checking

On my 30,000th EMR post someone commented with a few thoughts on EHR from MGMA:

Benefit to the practice of having an EHR
Mean rating on scale of 1 (no value) to 5 (extremely important)

Improved access to medical record information 4.60
Improved work flow 4.49
Improved patient communications 4.28
Improved accuracy for coding evaluation and management procedures 4.28
Improved drug refill capabilities 4.21
Reduced medication errors 4.19
Improved charge capture 4.16
Improved clinical decision making 4.15
Improved claim submission process 4.13
Reduced medical records staff expenses 3.96
Reduced medical records storage costs 3.92
Reduced transcription costs 3.92
Reduced medical records transportation costs 3.64
Improved physician recruitment 3.31

Let me know if you have any ideas by emailing emr@crashutah.com