- Reduces prescription errors and deaths due to such errors. Statistics shows that in 2007 about 98,000 patients (8%) died due to the prescription error in the USA. The WHO statistics show that about 30% patients become victims of prescription errors worldwide. The implementation of EMR in the Veterans Administration could successfully reduce the prescription error to 0.003%.
- EMR implementation can provide healthcare researchers access to a vast dataset, which can be used to analyze trends, detect patterns, identify promising treatments, and flag dangerous one
- Improved quality of patient care
- Improved chart quality --legible, searchable & organized documents
- Enhanced communication for higher efficiency
- Increased clinical accuracy
- A study conducted by Kalorama Information shows that the implementation of EMR in the USA could help healthcare industry save about 15% of the total yearly expenditure. Several studies conducted in India by independent marketing agencies also show that the widespread use of EMR system in India could bring about similar financial benefits.
- Studies show that the time saving in preparing clinical documents, filing, managing, searching, retrieving, transportation, reading, and analysis can save on an average of 5 minutes per patient per doctor.
- Increases efficiency of Employees – doctors, nurses, clinical staff, clerks, and management – by making the accountability transparent.
- The Referral Management module enables easy and hassle free communication among doctors and provides means to share patients’ records. This could bring additional referral revenue from small private hospitals to super specialists.
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EMR Benefits