Traditional Paper Records Vs Electronic Health Record

TRADITIONAL PAPER RECORDS V S. Electronic Health Records M Vs. VINCENT We do! What business demands Time Benefits 50+ Financial Benefits 30-40 HOURS HOURS PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS only spend 30-40 hours a week in direct patient care because of heavy paperwork and admin duties. SPECIALISTS spend 50 hours or more in direct patient care per week. ORGANIZATION INPATIENT settings that adopt and use EHR over the same time period experience net savings of OUTPATIENT facilities NURSES using EHR have seen reductions in documentation time by up to 45% Paper-based records dispersed across different medical facilities are often incomplete, contributing to unnecessary, repeat testing and treatment. Dispersed records are also inefficient because new providers have to retrieve a patient's charts and notes from multiple offices. EHR reduces the redundancies across healthcare providers and allows the assembly of a complete record of patient history in one easily accessible file. A complete patient record in digital format makes it easier to generate longitudinal reports that can improve extended care. that adopt and use an EHR over 15 years could have net savings of $142BILLION $371BILLION USING COMPUTERS to enter patient data increases the completeness of the information, so staff time spent searching for missing data decreases. IN 2009, independent physician practices using EHR had almost $50,000 greater total revenue per full-time physician than practices using paper-based systems. SHARING RECORDS Paper record systems waste valuable time because office staff has to transfer records by fax or mail. Because a patient's paper records across healthcare providers aren't stored in a centralized location, it's often difficult to put together a complete history. With EHR, exchanging information is faster because office staff can skip the retrieval and faxing process and transfer records electronically. EHR provides access to complete medical information about a patient, so other providers don't have to fill in partial records. AFTER 5 years of using EHR, practices reported an operating margin 10.1% higher than practices in their first year of EHR use. EACH PATIENT VISIT requires approximately 10-13 pieces of paper. And a large percentage of physicians see 50-99 patients a week. ACCESSIBILITY APPROXIMATELY 4.5MILLION ambulatory visits related to adverse drug events occur annually in the U.S. Doctors' access to medical records is limited by location and office hours. This can impact your patients' health in unusual circumstances, such as in an emergency procedure or when vital medication is misplaced. Web-based EHR provides 24/7 access to patient records and lab results from any location with internet access. Using mobile applications, physicians can access records on-the-go, between appointments or while on rounds. ABOUT 400,000 of these instances result in hospitalization. So each physician accumulates around 975 new pages of paper work each week. These adverse drug events could be avoided by using EHR to track patient medication history and to flag patients prescribed to several medications 1 0 1000s of tons of paper are consumed by the healthcare industry each year, causing storage issues and environmental harm. 1000 Environmental Benefits 10 TONS Health Benefits