Question

Regarding clinician use of the EMR/EHR, when is the best time to access and document into the EMR/EHR? Explain.

Answer 1

From the question I believe it asks when a patient needs to show EMR/EHR data to the health inspector. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

EMR stands for electronic medical records which tracks down the medical history and treatments in one practice, but the information has to be printed out in order to further investigate patient. EMR allows us to -

• Track data over time
• Monitor and improve overall quality of care within the practice
• Check patient's status on certain parameters like BP, Blood Saturation Levels

EHR stands for electronic health records which tracks down the complete health chart of a patient, it summarizes all the health records and provides a broad descriptive information of a patient.

Some of the benefits of EHR are -

• The information gathered by the primary care provider tells the emergency department clinician about the patient’s life threatening allergy, so that care can be adjusted appropriately, even if the patient is unconscious.
• The lab results run last week are already in the record to tell the specialist what she needs to know without running duplicate tests.

So from this we can say that a patient's EMR data is first collected and based on the EMRs's records an EHR data is made. EHR data can be migrated or shown directly to a health inspector but EMR data has very less information and must be printed out and mailed to the health inspector in order to further investigate the health of the patient.

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