Electronic Medical Record. Xxxxx’x electronic medical record (EMR) system, called Epic, manages patient records and allows psychiatrists to communicate with other providers, check notes, keep track, find out results of labs, and review patients medical history. The system is useful for communication between physicians and provides information on patient’s history and contact information. EPIC is helpful in terms of communicating difficult SMI diagnoses to doctors when referrals are made, if the provider believes the other physician may need to better understand how to communicate with patients. One participant described the following case: “Um, well, I would say, I guess, that the EPIC, you know, communicates, you know, if I can see who the person went to, you know, if I wanted to touch base with that provider this lady’s particularly paranoid, you know, I could send an EPIC message, that kind of thing, to give them a heads up. Things like that. It helps facilitate the communication part.” In another example, a different provider described using the EPIC messaging system to let a PCP know that an STI test was positive, so that the PCP could follow up on the result. Physicians can also harness the EMR system in unique ways to collect critical information on patients. As aforementioned, one psychiatrist reported creating her own template note for making sure she could collect all of the important information on the patient. In this way she was able to track gaps in knowledge and follow-up with specific questions to the patient. In addition, she bolded specific sections of her note as a way to indicate to herself that she needs to follow-up on specific aspects at the next appointment. She explained, “it’s not really based off of anything, it is, um, over time these are the questions –I mean most of it is the stuff that you have to have in a note and you need to know about a person. Um, but for myself there’s a lot of things that I’ll forget to ask if—and frequently patients don’t volunteer and so having it kind of written out for me”. She noted that she frequently forgot legal history, military background, and trauma without this technique. Because of the usefulness of the EMR system, several psychiatrists made recommendations to the interviewer about ways to change it to remind themselves to incorporate SRH care into their practice.
Electronic Medical Record. This practice utilizes an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system which provides numerous advantages to patient care, the quality and delivery of such care, reduced risk of medical error, and access to health information within and outside the practice setting. To safeguard your protected health information the EMR provides privac y and confidentiality protections as follows : Access: Restricted access to the EMR by medical staff and office personnel; Login username and password protected system. Use: Only authorized medical staff and office personnel may use the EMR for the purpose of storing and retrieving patient demographi c data, medical history, examination, and treatment plans, and communication. The EMR provides for internal e -mail communications, scanning of documents, and faxing of documents to approved parties for the sake of conducting office medical and financial matters. Communication : The EMR, and future software updates, may allow for direct restricted communication and interactivity with patients, and their families, from their personal computer at home or elsewhere. Safeguards are installed to prevent access to any other patient’s EMR data. The practice, through use of the EMR system, will abide by all HIPAA guidelines and policies relating to privacy and confidentiality of Electronic Medical R ecords, patient communication, and communication with third parties.
Electronic Medical Record. Without prejudice to the obligations specified in this Agreement, the Service Provider shall integrate its Electronic Medical Record (EMR) with Central Patient Portal so as to:
Electronic Medical Record i. GIS Mapping of all connected Patient Nodes and Command Centre(s) and type of health institutions and node information should be display on map
