What is the role of EHR interfaces? Explain how EHR technology platforms address information being shared through EHR interfaces.

 

 Role of EHR interfaces

Exchange health information electronically by providing patient with better quality care and better treatment.

EHRs provides;

• Accurate, up-to-date and full patient records
• Fast access to records of patients for good care
• Sharing electronic data safely with patients and other professionals
• Patients should be diagnosed easily by providers, which can minimize medical errors.
• Improves engagement and contact between patients and providers.
• Allowing better, more effective prescribing.
• EHR helps to provide reliable, full data, coding, and billing.
• Improving patient data protection and security
• Helps to increase efficiency and work load for providers.
• Providers can enhance productivity and achieve their business objectives
• Reducing expenditures through reduced paperwork.

Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an electronic version of the medical history of a patient that is kept by the physician over time, including demographics, progress notes, problems, prescriptions, vital signs, previous medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports, and may provide all the primary administrative clinical data applicable to that person's treatment under a particular provider, The EHR automates knowledge access and has the ability to streamline the workflow of the clinician. The EHR also has the capacity to directly or indirectly support other care-related activities across different interfaces, including evidence-based decision support, quality control, and reporting performance.