Ehr Advantages And Disadvantages

ADP AdvancedMD
Professor William Dotson
DeVry University
February 24, 2013

Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Advantages of the EHR 3,4
Technical Support 5,6
Privacy Concerns 6,7
Quality of Care 7,8
Interoperability 8
Customizations………………………………………………………………………………….....9
Profitability………………………………………………………………………………........9, 10
Synchronization of Records….................................................................................................10, 11
Costs………………………………………………………………………………………….11, 12
Technical Issue……………………………………………………………………………….12, 13
Conclusion….................................................................................................................................13
(Articlesbase, 2011) With quality of care improvements, EHR systems can help reduce medical errors by providing healthcare workers with decision support. During compilation while hospitalization or ambulant serving of the patient, easing to get access on details is improved with browser capabilities applied to screen presentations also cross referring to the respective coding concepts ICD, DRG and medical procedures information. (Articlesbase, 2011)
Improved quality of care provides supports a document & image file management, and scanning for Electronic Chart Management. This helps to transfer images to the patients chart to be pulled up by just the push of a button. (Automatic Data Processing, Guides, 2013)
Before, the nurse had to take the paper script, write the information in the patient’s chart, double-check insurance coverage, look up their preferred pharmacy, call in the script to the pharmacy and then document that she had called it in. Now, she pulls up the patient in the system, enters the prescription, and hits send. EPrescribing checks and documents