1. Electronic Health Records
The Future of Healthcare

2. What is an Electronic Health Record
(EHR)
• A computer system of individual patient
information. Intended to replace ‘paper’
records or charting.

3. What does an EHR contain?
• Demographics ( name, age, address and so on)
• Insurance Information
• Personal and family healthcare history
• Allergies, if any
• Current and long-term medical issues/disorders
• treatments; including medications, labs and
imaging results (past& present)
• Physical examination ( specific findings)

4. How does EHR systems benefit you as
a patient
• Patients can actively participate in their care, via
the patient portal on the clinic’s website;
• New patients can log onto the website to request
an appointment to visit the doctor
• Existing patients can use portal to update
personal demographics and insurance information
• Patients can also log onto the website to obtain
instructions in preparation for an imagine
procedure, like drinking plenty of fluids before an
ultrasound and so on.

5. Other General Benefits of EHR
• Improves patient safety: lowers the risk for medication
error due to illegible handwritings.
• Reduces the risk for misplacing pertinent information
• Enhances quality of care by the use of evidence-based-
practices guidelines that enable healthcare workers to
make more informed, beneficial decisions about
patient care.
• Is more efficient and cost effective, as it eliminates risk
for repeating medical investigations, for example, and
lowers data storage and retrieval costs.

6. The Barriers of EHR
• May lack standards.
• Having to train all staff on the software
can be time consuming and costly.
• Program initiation and maintenance can
be costly.
• Security of medical records is also a
major concern.

7. The Future of EHR
• In collaboration with the internet and modern
technologies, EHR’s are expected to be rapidly
available not just to medical personnel, but
also the patient and third party entities such
as insurance companies. Therefore helping to
provide quality patient care.

8. Conclusion
Electronic health records, also known as
computer-based records (CPR); electronic
medical records (EMR) or personal health
records ( PHR) is an effective, “paper-free”
tool, that unites all dimensions of the
healthcare team, to help implement a
safe, quality standard of care to the
patient/client.