Amazing video about one Vendor's EMR solution - it states reasons to adopt

Link: EMR and HIPPA

I just watched this video that was published, I assume, by Allscripts, a software EHR vendor. It was quite tastefully done in a "Web 2.0" style and provided descriptions of problems with existing paper-based health records and listed benefits for adoption of electronic health records (EHR).

I watched another video from Allscripts last week. I was impressed with their artistic license on that video, but this one is quite good. It is a bit long, but contains these reasons for EHRs and other items of interest for ambulatory practices:

• when you spend too much time looking for patient's charts,
• when you want to know what happened to your patient in the ER 2 days ago,
• when you spend more time on paper than with patients,
• when patients complain about filling out repeated forms,
• when your office staff employs one person who's responsibility is to file charts,
• when you want to identify your patients who are taking a Rx that has been recalled,
• when you want to ensure that records don't get lost,
• when you want to ensure that prescriptions are accurate and complete,

and finally,

• when you want to ensure that coding is accurate so you will get paid and not audited...

Gives those of us in healthcare some food for thought.

 

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Comments

[Maggie]

FYI there's a discussion going on about these issues now (Oct 27-Nov 3) at:
www.thenationaldialogue.org. Today is the last day, so don't miss your chance to add your comments.

It's called the National Dialogue on Health IT & Privacy. On the site, you can contribute ideas, and read and rate others' ideas. Watch in real time as the best ideas "rise to the top."

** The results of this online dialogue are being compiled into a report to the Federal CIO Council, Office of Management and Budget, and the incoming Administration by the National Academy of Public Administrators. **

Hope to see you there.
Maggie, The National Dialogue