Future developments in Next Gen. electronic health record software could and should include various advancements as detailed below.
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1. How Next-gen Electronic
Health Record Can Make
Your Life Simpler
Change is constant. This applies to the field of patient data whether it is handled by individual doctors or by large
hospitals and healthcare services providers across the country. From storing patient records in Excel sheets to database
systems the world of patient data records has progressed to electronic health records. Even within this we have different
types of electronic health record systems such as one hosted by individual physicians known as electronic medical
records, remotely hosted electronic health record software and remote systems accessible to a large number of users.
2. However, what distinguishes these existing electronic health record systems is that they are passive or historical,
simply maintaining a record of the patient’s illnesses, diagnostics and treatments at one or more facilities. This is good
but proves to be a stumbling block when there are major issues like a pandemic where other parameters come into
play such as preventive and proactive measures to identify vulnerable populations, keep track of infected individuals,
their recovery rate, their specific conditions and reactions to treatment and data to take steps to prevent spread. There
are blocks such as high cost, excessive documentation and lack of user-friendliness in currently existing EHR systems.
Most of these focused more on the administrative and financial side with the medical side added on as an
afterthought. These systems also imposed additional work burdens on personnel. The Covid pandemic worldwide
brought out these deficiencies and paved the way to introduce changes to electronic health record systems for the
future.
It is time for a change to the electronic health record systems and the way they are implemented and used.
In fact, according to EHR Intelligence, the use of EHR in July, 2020 increased by 2.06% compared to the pre-pandemic
times.
Future developments in electronic health record software could and should include various advancements as detailed
below.
3. Structural technical underpinnings
Future EHR software applications should have solid technical underpinnings to incorporate latest advances in
IT technologies such as:
Algorithms need to be incorporated into medical EHR software to combine various case conditions,
interconnected health issues, treatments based on patients’ individual situations, flexibility for healthcare
workers to step in as may be needed according to the situation but do it automatically and speedily with
minimal human intervention.
Such futuristic electronic health record ehr solutions would also have advanced decision support and
workflow logic to remind team members through a variety of channels about patients, available plans and
facilities for fast action.
The future medical ehr software will be able to fluidly deliver analytics for individuals and for populations
within specific geographic regions and to have predictive capabilities as regards spread of a disease.
4. Intelligence at the core
As they stand current EHR software applications are focused on
maintaining past data about patients, their activities and particularly the
revenues side. Incorporation of intelligence into such EHR systems does
not pose a big challenge given the voluminous amounts of data sets that
can be used for machine learning to facilitate predictive capabilities. It
could, for example, analyze variables such as whether a patient is
following a treatment routine, their deviations and possible outcomes
and suggest possible steps to remedy this kind of situation. Importantly,
futuristic electronic health record systems should be able to analyze and
deliver suggestions to busy doctors so that they can put such
suggestions into practice instead of wasting time in thinking about
individual problems. Indirectly, analyzing patients in bulk who are
infected with a specific disease could show up peculiar conditions that
would be missed by most doctors treating individual patients.
Real-time big data analytics needs to become part of the overall electronic health record system to be used
worldwide or countrywide, similar to the airline reservation system in which all stakeholders can get information
in real-time. This also has implications in disease detection, spread and preventative measures.
5. The question of access
Though electronic health records are available for sharing by healthcare service providers, access still remains
limited. The issue of accessibility needs to be addressed considering that 66% of users search for information on
the internet and 88% of appointments is booked via phone or other digital means. Electronic health record
systems can take a leaf out of how businesses manage their communications and manage customers by providing
remote multi-channel access across various devices with fluid crossover from desktops to mobiles as and when
needed, both for patients and doctors.
Technologies to incorporate are natural language processing, voice recognition and IoT to further broaden the
scope of accessibility.
The question of accessibility also leads to standardization and uniformity of electronic health record systems as
well as data protocols for glitch-free use and operation.
Accessibility also raises issues of security that can be addressed using blockchain technology for validation, data
security, claims, authentication and prevention of insurance frauds.
6. Multiplicity of plans
Health care services would vastly improve and patients would benefit if future electronic health record
software were to incorporate the facility to enable providers to prepare plans for various contingencies.
Instead of considering a single patient, the future electronic health record systems can help providers to set
up plans for populations based on a set of parameters relating to disease, age, gender and economic
drivers. Data can be gathered through various devices like smartwatches and IoT devices and providers can
take inputs to devise flexible plans.
Population health management
Interoperability is a part of EHR but needs to be improved to give immediate access to any health care
services provider, especially in cases of emergency.
Health information exchange
7. Training
The more sophisticated a medical health record solution becomes in the future the more complex it is
likely to be and it will likely involve a learning curve. Service providers in the healthcare segment would
work alongside solution providers to give the training to bring users up to speed on 5G technologies, AI’s
benefits, IoT and wearables and how to use the system to derive the maximum benefit. After all,
sophisticated electronic health record software is like a sophisticated car or aircraft—one must know how
to use it or it will be practical of little use. It pays to join hands with the right vendor who considers all
these aspects when you decide to go for medical EHR software.
Enhance patient engagement, improve accessibility, and leverage standardized processes. Get
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