This is going to be proved right with the upcoming of Free EMR.
Basically, EMR is Electronic Medical Record which is information systems that like any other computer system allow data access, storage and also retrieval of useful information.
These systems help the organizations such as hospitals to maintain medical records of patients and keep track of their healthcare requirements.
As the information is maintained on electronically, the chances of err gets reduced and consequently increases the efficiency of the hospital staff.
EMR allows the authorities to store charts and scanned paper records along with the other information of individual patient.
Each one of us keeps on hearing terms like Free EMR and Open Source EMR.
A number of people are contributing to this open EMR development.
A large number of people from the medical domain still do not know much about this open source free stuff.
Now so as to use Free EMR the doctors must be very cautious and must hire a professional person of this domain.
This Free EMR which appear very attractive, but they may always not be free to use.
They also might be hard to implement without a technical person.
When it comes to naming the projects that have been started as free EMR, an example which comes to the mind is Health Wiki.
Many other sites which that they offer Free EMR but they may have a hidden cost associated with them.
One more very well known FREE EMR software is available known as VistA.
"Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture" (VistA) is a standard enterprise EMR application used in the U.
S.
Department of Veteran Affairs medical system.
But it also has some issues like it uses a prograaiming system called as MUMPS which Is not free so you need to buy this so as to use this free EMR.
When these technological modules comes to practice in hospitals or offices they surely will require effective training, a positive mind set to adapt the new system, patience, and a slow transitional effect.
Then initial effort may be tedious for staff.
When you are going for a Free EMR you must keep following points in mind:
- You must always keep a reliable backup for the system so that you ensure data safety and never lose some important records.
- It should be efficient and not just a storage dump.
Effective retrieval mechanism should be there. - It must provide quick searches such as for prescribed drugs, medication, blood groups, so that it is beneficial in emergency cases.
- It should manage records from multiplt offices and hospitals as well as should magane multiple types of records.
- It allows multiple users.
It also connects users to personal and online support sources.
- It should be manageable and user-friendly.