Question

How electronic health record (EHR) is important in remote patient monitoring process? And how the existing EHR can be redesigned to meet the users' needs?

Answer 1

How electronic health record (EHR) is important in remote patient monitoring process?

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a technology to enable monitoring of patients outside of primary or community clinical settings, such as in the home or in a remote area, which may increase access to care and healthcare delivery at low costs. Electronic health record in remote patient monitoring process may important, because

▪ Increases provider efficiency and improves quality of care

▪ Empowering providers to make science-based decisions

▪ Ease of access to patient data

▪ Facilitating faster diagnosing and thus for treatment plan

▪Helps to lowering prescribing errors, and as a result

▪ Improving patient outcomes

How the existing EHR can be redesigned to meet the users' needs?

*EHR can be redesigned as simple for common people to use at their limited areas.

*More and accessibility should b ensured

*Cost effective,sometimes EHRs are financially burdensome for practices

*Training, and the learning curve associated with adopting EHRs, demands substantial time from physicians and staff – time that is taken away from patient care