Advantages Of Ehrs

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One of the main advantages of EHRs is that information can be managed and adjusted in a digital format right away, shared with other providers across different healthcare organizations, such as laboratories, pharmacies, emergency facilities, work and educational clinics. The main purpose healthcare organizations are keeping health records is to facilitate patients’ treatment. These records summarize the patients’ medical history and can be used as an “external memory” to which healthcare professionals can go back to verify track and adjust treatment plans. The EHRs can be seen as a “communication and collaboration” tool as well, between physicians, nurses, other specialists and departments (e.g. to capture relevant correspondence, prescriptions,