Improving Medical Practices with EMR

There have been a number of technological advancements that was introduced around the world to simply a process which was already considered simple. A popular example is the use of electronic medical records or an EMR. So what is an EMR?

What is an EMR?
An EMR is a software developed to enhance or improve the daily processes of medical practices, such as those mostly seen in a hospital or in any other health care institutions. It is meant to replace the long use of paper-based records when gathering medical data from a patient who is still very common in many health care providers.

According to many experts, an EMR is much similar to EHR or the electronic health record, for a few differences. The EMR can be defined as the legal patient record created in hospitals and ambulatory environments that is the data source for the EHR. Read more here...