Question

How can EHR product selection and implementation be enriched by physician leadership? What is it about physicians’ training and approach to healthcare processes and revenue cycle (how the money flows through the healthcare system) that can make or break the implementation and maintenance of the EHR in a physician office? Public health setting? Insurance company?

Answer 1

An electronic health record is a modern technology of saving all client details in a electronic device system. It eases the accessibility of informations pertaining to the client by the various departments providing care to the clients in a healthcare organization. The use of electronic medical record have decreased the effort of maintaining huge files, and also the errors in interpreting the datas between members of healthcare team. The EMR is handled by physicians, nurses, dieticians, physiotherapist, pharmacist and many more. A proper selection and implementation of a good EMR product is vital for any healthcare organization.

A physician's leadership is directly proportionate to the purchase if a good EMR product selection. The physician is aware about the various standards a EMR product should maintain for a its adequate selection and interpretation. He knows about the different criteria which a EMR product should have. Therefore physician being the leader of the healthcare team, the purchase of EMR is enriched in his leadership..

For this the physician's training and approach to health care is important. The physician should have knowledge about the functioning of a EMR and what all standards a good EMR has to maintain and fulfill for its purchase to become effective. Lack of training can lead to purchase of a poor functioning system which would affect the storage and confidentiality of the data related to clients health care. His poor approach can can cause purchase of a poor functioning EMR product thereby leading to financial loss to the organization and affecting its revenue cycle.

This not only break the implementation and maintainance of EMR in a physician offfice bu also in a public health setting and insurance company. The datas stored in an EMR is highly confidential and the access to its information is limited to certain members of healthcare team. A poor EMR product can lead to access of unwanted personnel who may distorted or modify any piece of information stored within the system. This will affect the quality of care given to clients. The activity of the insurance company also depends on the information given by a EMR of the client. So the datas provided to them should be accurate. In public health settings, a huge infoemation needs to be stored and a physicians approach to implement EMR can ease this effort.