Electronic Health Record Management

Before the evolvement of technology, medical records were done on papers, Development of the EHR helps medical institutions go paperless and build a highly cooperative system within the organization.

An Electronic Health Record Management (EHR) system serves as the database for storing the most important medical information about patients.

The access to the patient’s data in the EHR is provided to all the authorized members, such as doctors, nurses, insurance companies, lab specialists, pharmacies, school, and workplace doctors. This helps to coordinate healthcare services more efficiently and make the process of treatment transparent and coherent. 

Typically, EHR includes:

• Past medical history of patients
• Present medical challenges
• Any relevant demographic data
• Drug prescriptions
• Immunization dates
• Information about allergies
• Information from lab reports
• Data from wearables and other devices that collect physiological parameters.
• Billing data
• Insurance details
• Improvement as treatment goes on.

Course Objective.

At the end of the lesson, participants will come to the full understanding of:

• The electronic health record management
• Effective Medical record management
• What a medical record should entail.
• Risk involves in unmanaged medical records.
• Some essential software for managing medical records.

Course Outline

• Overview of health record Management
• Difference between Electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR)
• Benefits of Health record Management
• Protection of patients’ data: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Protected health information (PHI), Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI)
• Risks of unmanaged Medical Records.
• Electronic Medical Record Software