Medical Software

Are you guys familiar with EHR or Electronic Health Records? I've been reading a lot about it online. I think our medical officers should have this software to make their work more efficient and accessible. What do you guys think?

Electronic patient records have been implemented since... about... 2004 in the UK. It would be almost impossible to find a hospital in the UK which hasn't got EPR in some form (it's upto each individual hospital to choose what exactly they want to implement). Some hospitals have been through 2 or 3 different software brands in that time. Some hospitals are already completely "paperless"; which means all notes should be kept on computer and any new paper gets scanned and then shredded. Pretty much every family physician (GP) in the UK has electronic records too.

Your question is like 2 decades behind the times. Of course it's a good idea.

Why on earth are you reading about EPR/EHR/EPR? Boring AF!

ticklykayak said:

Are you guys familiar with EHR or Electronic Health Records? I've been reading a lot about it online. I think our medical officers should have this software to make their work more efficient and accessible. What do you guys think?

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Yes, its popular among patients and health professionals. It is a computer based patients' record also. This is most likely an improvement over a paper record. I have been hearing good points about EHR since then.

Smileyfriend said:

Yes, its popular among patients and health professionals. It is a computer based patients' record also. This is most likely an improvement over a paper record. I have been hearing good points about EHR since then.

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Thanks! It's not implemented from where I'm from yet reason why I'm so curious about this kind of stuff. I've read and visited a lot of sites online and encountered some vendors selling EHR that double as medical billing software. I thought they are entirely different and didn't know some are already integrated. Do you think it's better to have 2 separate software instead of one that can do everything or is it the other way around?

Boom!! Dynamite..