It is a standard in the US that medical records should be stored for 7 years. Although it isn’t a problem among smaller healthcare institutions, larger healthcare institutions have had problems storing medical records. Because of the greater numbers of patients that larger healthcare institutions admits, the number of medical records that they store within their storage spaces far exceeds the number of medical records that of smaller healthcare institutions.
This is the reason why larger healthcare institutions would usually have to rent storage facilities outside the institution to store all their excess medical records, and that this grows continuously.
However, there is an available technology which can be used to digitally store medical records without the use of a physical storage facility. This is when EMR and ehr software were developed and introduced for use in healthcare institutions. Read more to know the advantages of EMR and EHR Systems.
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EMR and EHR differ in many ways. One of which is how these both systems are used. EMR is mainly used in a local hospital setting, while EHR is used in a wide network of enterprise systems. Their advantage comes down to one point: they help everyone in the hospital industry store, manage and view records instantly. Hospitals don’t need to worry about having huge storage facilities anymore.
here is something useful to doctors.
http://patienttrackmate.blogspot.in/2012/04/medical-ipad-application-ehr-sofware.html
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