It’s all thanks to the EMR that physicians can communicate more effectively with their multidisciplinary team members. Consultants and other team members benefit from legible, structured chart summaries, medical notes, and consultation letter templates, which are all electronic medical records. Prescriptions and investigation orders are generated in a clear and organized format, which minimizes order errors.
Effect on work Life:
Physicians who have adopted an EMR report positive experiences with its effects on their working lives. Although the implementation of an EMR can lead to a subjective feeling of increased time requirements by physicians, studies have found that implementation does not result in a significant decrease in patient access or a loss of billings. The use of an EMR has been shown to provide a variety of benefits. Additionally, it may enable clinicians to see more patients by providing easy access to comprehensive patient clinical histories that include history of present illness, past medical/ surgical history personal history, family history, immunization history, etc. which in turn may reduce the time physicians to articulate a patient’s final diagnosis. Patients’ records can be accessed remotely, laboratory results are more readily available, and medication error alerts and reminders for preventive care are included as perceived benefits.
Electronic medical records improve the quality of care, patient outcomes, and safety by allowing for improved management, reducing medication errors, reducing unnecessary medical tests, and improving communication among primary care providers and other medical professionals.
Albeit some physicians report some concerns about the costs and time involved in implementing electronic medical records, they agree that those records improve workflow. Electronic medical records can save time by eliminating the need to pull charts, provide patients with comprehensive data, help with medication management, improve scheduling, and give patients remote access to their records.
Conclusion:
Therefore, EMRs drastically cut down the Physician’s work hours, resulting in saving time and resources, which then can be utilized to focus on providing quality treatment to the patients, hence providing a beneficial effect on the Work Life of a physician.
