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Adoption of electronic health records, commonly referred to as EHR in short, provides a significant chance for secondary application of clinical data for clinical research purposes. For instance, because individual genetic variants do not have a strong correlation to complicated illnesses, the need for genome-wide associations studies increases if significant results are to be realized (Kohli & Tan, 2016). This paper conducts HER evaluation through four measures linked to HER on care quality, optimization of software and the work flow designs.
The Role of EHR
EHR systems are support tools for clinicians and have the potential to decrease the strain that the clinician is often subjected to in terms of memorizing and cognition. They also have the advantage of efficiency. They enhance the effectiveness of care and improve coordination. Patient centered equitable and timely provision of quality healthcare requires tools that can help to organize and provide information display that places the data of the patient in specific context. It also helps to synthesize such information with the medical evidence that is available and facilitates the decision-making by the clinician. Such organization and information display is essential in supporting clinical care effectively and drastically, reducing human error in the practice (Nohr, 2006). The dispensing of medical care occurs in environments that are highly interruptive. These environments are highly controlled, in terms of provider specific and site, decision-making modes based on rules. The EHR interface through which care teams input and retrieve information, and on many occasions, guidelines for care and evidence for medical care, should be efficient, responsive and intuitive to the varying information needs by the clinicians so as to effectively support medical practice.
EHR Stakeholders
Patients, providers and purveyors are the three basic stakeholders in EHR. Those in indirect access to EHR data such as insurers, local, state and public agencies, clinical researchers, technology vendors and accreditation agencies constitute the secondary stakeholders. Pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers and biotech research firms may benefit as they contribute to EHR integration...
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