Question

What are the advantages of Electronic Health Records (EHR) ?

What are claim data ?

Why is dat-driven approach needed for health population management ?

Answer 1

EHRe are some advantages of EHR for both patients and hospitals as well.

Because of EHR time consumed in paperwork get reduced. This leads to save the time.

• The patients need not to carry the physical reports. It is portable.
• It supports the convenience.
• The communication becomes easy.
• Sometimes patients are advised to conduct another test and because there are more than one doctor and they ask for separate report. Because of EHR duplication or multiplication of tests are reduced. One report can facilitates all.
• For patients it becomes easy to utilize the Medicare and Medicaid programs run by the Federal and central government.
• It contains accurate, complete information about the health status hence it is very useful for the patients as well s doctors.
• Medical errors are also reduced.
• It has positive effect on the environment as well because paper id eliminated in EHR AND papers are made with Trees.
• Because of quickness, cost saving, tree saving, duplication and re-conducting the tests, EHR is very beneficial.