Intelligent cloud-based electronic health record (ICEHR) was conceptualized as a system with the potential to revolutionize health care delivery. An aging population, combined with rising healthcare expenses, forced healthcare organizations and governments to seek novel, cost-effective solutions that would save money while minimizing their operational burden. Using technology such as electronic health record (EHR), not only can life be extended through best practices and evidence-based decision support capabilities, the quality of life can also be improved through ease of healthcare access.
A cloud-based electronic medical record (EMR) system helps collect and save the medical files of patients on the cloud instead of storing them on internal servers located in a hospital or similar healthcare facilities. As opposed to on-premises servers, cloud-based data servers are flexible, scalable, intuitive, and cost-effective. Data mining capabilities coupled with EMR allow hospital administrators to access work procedures and investigate patient data to understand health risk factors, potential drug interactions, and patient behavior patterns. Cloud-based EMR has become a significant part of health information technology (IT) and enables it to support next-level healthcare standards.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the pace of technology adoption, including EHR and EMR systems, in healthcare organizations. Technology upgrades that could have taken years were completed within months by more than 62% of healthcare providers. The need for cloud-integrated software solutions was especially felt by healthcare organizations to support their patients in a time of social-distancing.
As a result of this exponential growth witnessed by healthcare software vendors during the pandemic, analysts predict that the market for cloud-based healthcare solutions will exceed US $79 billion in the next five years. Cloud-based EMR and EHR systems are expected to take a major share of this growth owing to their critical nature in effective healthcare provision.
Health IT is a segment of IT that deals with the creation, design, development, use, and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare sector. Interoperable and automated healthcare information systems will improve public health and medical care, enhancing efficiency, lowering costs, minimizing errors, and augmenting patient satisfaction, while also boosting revenues for providers of both inpatient healthcare and ambulatory services.
The importance of health IT stems from improvements in technology and shifting government policies that have an impact on patient care quality. Authorities can boost the modern health IT infrastructure by introducing incentives for hospitals to adopt EHR systems.
In recent years, the usage of EHRs has become a widespread practice in the healthcare industry. However, there is immense scope to make these systems more feature-driven and user-friendly.
Here are some key elements that can be improved to enhance the EHR experience for both patients and administrators:
Hospitals, like any other modern business, have adopted software solutions to facilitate a variety of operations. The development of and reliance on EMR systems has made these systems critical to the modern healthcare system’s operation.
To measure the performance of EMR, load testing and performance testing needs to be performed. Load testing enables the system deployers to understand:
On the other hand, performance testing helps identify the following:
Using a centralized digital platform to update patient records is significantly faster than manually writing all the updates in pen-and-paper records. Executives can spend less time on administrative tasks and more time actively serving people thanks to EHR/EMR software.
In-patient management systems, personnel rotation, billing, analytics, and other modules are included in advanced EHR systems. They also enable easy interaction with other healthcare technology, saving healthcare organizations money on licensing and subscription fees, while also shortening the staff’s learning curve.
Many EMR software solutions provides e-prescribe capabilities, which eliminate the need for a patient to visit a healthcare facility to merely renew their drug prescription. Furthermore, they facilitate speedy data transfer and, in some cases, insurance eligibility verification, reducing patient wait times. Finally, telehealth features in EMR/EHR software enable doctors to do remote health assessments while patients stay safe at their homes, thus reducing disease transmission risks.
Cloud EMR is software with capabilities to transform the existing healthcare infrastructure. There is tremendous scope for increased processing speed and improved data management by using cloud based EHR/EMR solutions in the healthcare industry. As the next logical evolution of digital patient records, cloud based EHR can overcome the limitations of siloed systems that hinder collaboration and innovation in the rapidly transforming healthcare sector.
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