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* With the use of EMR, record handling will be conducted in the office, records will not have to be sent to an outsource provider or to a transcriber for handling. This will ultimately help saving transcription cost. Reference: http://www.allscripts.com/casestudies/nffm.pdf
 
* With the use of EMR, record handling will be conducted in the office, records will not have to be sent to an outsource provider or to a transcriber for handling. This will ultimately help saving transcription cost. Reference: http://www.allscripts.com/casestudies/nffm.pdf
  
* EMR facilitates the efficient creation and transmission of reports that support patient safety, quality improvement, public health, research, and other health care operations. All of those will reduce the cost of healthcare.
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* EMR can facilitate the efficient creation and transmission of reports that support patient safety, quality improvement, public health, research, and other health care operations. All of those will reduce the cost of healthcare.
  
 
==  '''Clinical''' ==
 
==  '''Clinical''' ==

Revision as of 15:52, 13 January 2009

The following EMR-related benefits have been identified within various health care organizations. Before one assumes that just because some other organization was able to realize a specific benefit that they will be able to achieve the same thing, one must ensure that they have the same EMR features and functions available AND the clinicians are, or will, use them at their organization.


Common EMR Benefit Categories

Financial

  • Charges for laboratory tests were 8.8% lower in the intervention group (P < 0.05) from: Tierney WM, McDonald CJ, Hui SL, Martin DK. Computer predictions of abnormal test results. Effects on outpatient testing. JAMA. 1988;259:1194-8.
  • With the use of EMR, record handling will be conducted in the office, records will not have to be sent to an outsource provider or to a transcriber for handling. This will ultimately help saving transcription cost. Reference: http://www.allscripts.com/casestudies/nffm.pdf
  • EMR can facilitate the efficient creation and transmission of reports that support patient safety, quality improvement, public health, research, and other health care operations. All of those will reduce the cost of healthcare.

Clinical

  • Increased ordering rates for pneumococcal and influenza vaccine, prophylactic heparin, and aspirin at discharge. from: Dexter PR, Perkins S, Overhage JM, Maharry K, Kohler RB, McDonald CJ. A computerized reminder system to increase the use of preventive care for hospitalized patients. N Engl J Med. 2001;345:965-70.
  • With the quality EMR, quick access to patients records can be lifesaving during the emergency situation by helping emergency decision-making process.
  • EMR would help making medical history more efficient and accurate and will help reducing the errors those are associated with transcription.
  • EMR will provide the integrated view of patient to clinician so that they can spent less time for getting patients’ history, lab and radiology results and medication information so that clinicians can make diagnosis more accurately and faster.

Operational

  • Overall, 6.2% increase in time spent ordering (not statistically significant); experienced users were time neutral with paperbased ordering. from: Overhage JM, Perkins S, Tierney WM, McDonald CJ. Controlled trial of direct physician order entry: effects on physicians’ time utilization in ambulatory primary care internal medicine practices. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2001;8:361-71.
  • Integrated communication and reporting support. EMR can facilitate the efficient creation and transmission of reports that relate to health care operations such as billing and charge information.