Why is the electronic medical record important?
Electronic medical records are essential: They help manage population health; They change the way healthcare providers practice medicine; They lower healthcare costs; and They improve patient safety. Learn more about the benefits of EMR.
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If we want to manage population health, and that's certainly one of the things that's part of health care reform is changing the way we
actually practice medicine, the way we are reimbursed for practicing medicine, it's around quality, and access, and lowering costs,
in order to do that, you can't improve what you can't measure to use that old saying. And it's been very difficult to measure things in health care
when it's scattered on pieces of paper all over the place. Also from a safety standpoint, you and I
might see dozens of different doctors in our lives. And yet, somewhat sporadically for most of us that have a chronic disease, it's here.
It's there. It's everywhere. That we need to bring together all that information so that you have a unified record.
So not only I think for your own safety to make sure that what's in there is right and quantifiable, but also
so that we can use that information to measure about what's going on across the population of people
health care
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