Not so long ago, patients’ medical information was in the form of paper records – handwritten, bound together, labeled, filed, and put on a shelf till the next visit. In fact, this is still how things are done in many countries.
In the middle of the 2000s, the mass adoption of information technologies encouraged many healthcare businesses to start integrating electronic medical record (EMR) systems into their business processes as a more advanced alternative to paper records. EMR systems serve as a digital version of paper charts, containing all medical and treatment history of a patient within a practice.
As time went on, hospital app development started growing in popularity, making more and more providers around the US implement EMRs in their clinics, which made the US government recognize the necessity of enhancing communication between health providers by making their medical software interoperable. That’s how electronic health record (EHR) systems were born.
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So what exactly is an EHR system and how does it differ from an EMR system?
While EMRs allow for collecting, keeping, and managing patients’ data in one safe place, this data can hardly cross the borders of a practice, meaning it’s not available to other establishments – or even to patients themselves.
Unlike EMRs, EHR systems are designed not only to collect and keep patient information but to share it with laboratories, emergency rooms, hospitals, pharmacies, and other healthcare institutions. EHRs can accumulate information from all providers involved in a patient’s care – as well as from patients themselves – to allow for coordinated, patient-centered care.
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Hello! Well written! The creation of an app allows medical professionals to efficiently perform administrative procedures without paperwork.
I would like to add that a guide can be used to create a medical app. Development refers not only to creating the design of the app, as well as coding, testing, and everything else. Choosing which platform the app will run on is one of the important parts of creating a health app. To create an app, there are a number of steps to follow:
You can find more information about building a medical app in this article