The Power of Paperless: Understanding EMRs
May 12, 2008
A s the wound care industry adapts to the paperless society and electronic medical records (EMRs), there is hesitation by some professionals to embrace the digital push. A large majority of healthcare transactions in the US still take place on paper.
However, our editors Caroline Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS and Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS; and other industry professionals such as N. Blair Hughes, MHS, PT, CWS, director of specialty programs and wound care services for Frederick Memorial Healthcare System (FMHS), Frederick, Md, explain that there are many reasons for wound care facilities to start embracing the technological advantages that are available in EMRs. Fife, chief medical officer at Intellicure, Inc. (The Woodlands, Tex) reviews the company’s option for EMR. Weir, discusses an EMR option that her facility has been using for years, provided by Net Health Systems (Pittsburgh, Pa). Finally, Hughes discusses the EMR option used at her center (FMHS’s Advanced Skin & Wound Care Center) since 2000, provided by Wound Care Strategies (Harrisburg, Pa).
Regardless of their affiliations and personal experiences with the three different companies, Fife, Weir, and Hughes raise some very valuable points and are all advocates of adopting an EMR system in a wound care clinic setting.
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