Electronic Health Records
Korto Scott
July 8, 2008
Title: Electronic Health Records
Authors: Byron Hamilton, Leesa Hamilton
Format: Paperback
Type of Book: Career education
Pages: 320
Publication Date: January 2008
This book addresses how Healthcare practices and companies are moving to filing paperless claims and storing medical information electronically. The book serves as a guide for Physicians and practices that wish to go paperless. With the advances in technology I think it is very important for Healthcare companies to move in this direction. Being able to access a person’s medical records is essential to quality health care.
The purpose of this book as described by the author is to show that improvement of patient medical care is the catalyst for the electronic health record. Electronic Health Records provides the conceptual theory and hands-on application in today's medical office.
Byron Hamilton and Leesa Hamilton are co-authors of this book and owners of Medical Medtech Management. I feel that the authors are well suited to write on this topic being that they come from a medical background and have been in the industry for several years. They have also co-written several other books that are used in the healthcare industry.
Health Information Technology continues to expand rapidly across the entire spectrum of the medical community. Electronic Medical Records have been around since the 1970’s. today more than 30 percent of mid- to large size practices either already use or are in the process of implementing an Electronic Health Record. Electronic Health Record is the most commonly accepted term for software with a full range of functionalities to store, access, and use patient medical information. EHR’s are also known as the expanded version of EMR’s.
There are several shortcomings associated with early EHRs. Early EHRs had an all or nothing, monolithic...
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