How healthcare technology enables non tech-savvy users ease?
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Adopting and implementing information technology in the field of healthcare is very essential today. By embracing information technology, healthcare can get benefited in many ways. It is possible to reduce medical errors, offer the best possible and practical method of communication, share information to clinicians in a proper form, and easily manage patient records through information technology. However, it is a challenge for non tech savvy users. How healthcare technology enables non tech-savvy users ease?
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@deepjoy-0 The electronic medical record is nothing but a medical information system which is computerized. This helps in collecting, storing, as well as displaying patient information. EMR can be utilized as a means for creating organized and legible records. Along with this, they can also be used to access the clinical data which is stored for individual patients. EMR is also well known as Electronic Health Records. These two terms are mostly used as interchangeable synonyms in the field of health informatics.
Institute of Medicine has already suggested adopting EMR systems in wide scale so that it becomes easy to improve patient safety along with providing health care quality. Along with this, EMR may also reduce costs which are needed to provide ambulatory care. Even though there are many benefits which can be achieved through implementing these EMR systems, there are many barriers too, for this adoption. The main barrier being non-tech-savvy doctors who are experiencing difficulties with navigation and usage of EMR systems compared to the doctors of the new generation.
So, even though there is broad agreement on the advantages of these EMR systems, health care providers are very slow in adopting these new technologies. The barrier can be lack of readiness which results in weakness of the organization in terms of transforming when the implementation of EMR happens. The slow rate of this adoption is mainly due to resistance showed by physicians since they are the primary frontline users for these electronic medical record systems.